Was Jesus selfish if he was expecting to be glorified?

November 8, 2023

Was Jesus selfish if he was expecting to be glorified?


VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:

God basically has one goal, if we can put it that way, and that is His own glory. And while we, as sinful human beings, almost find that distasteful to say, the fact is, is that God is perfect, He is holy, He is mighty, He is all-powerful, He is all-knowing, He is the Creator God. He alone deserves all glory. And so, when the Lord Jesus prayed in John 17 for the Father to glorify Him, even as He has glorified the Father, no one could ever accuse Jesus of being selfish, because the fact is, Jesus, as God, fully God, completely deserves glory. In fact, the book of Revelation, multiple times, says that to Jesus Christ belong glory and honor, and power, and might, and wealth, and majesty. They all belong to Him, because He is perfect, because He is sinless. So the ultimate thing we can do as Christians is to ascribe glory to God.

¿Jesús fue egoísta si esperaba ser glorificado?


TRANSCRIPCIÓN DE VIDEO:
Dios en esencia tiene una meta, por decirlo de esa manera, y esa meta es su propia gloria. Y mientras nosotros, como humanos pecadores, casi encontramos desagradable decirlo, de hecho, Dios es perfecto, Él es santo, es poderoso, es omnipotente, es omnisciente, Él es el Dios creador. Solo Él merece toda la gloria. Y, entonces, cuando el Señor Jesús pidió en Juan 17 al Padre que lo glorificase, incluso mientras Él glorificaba al Padre; nadie puede acusar a Jesús de ser egoísta, porque, de hecho, Jesús, como Dios, Dios completo, merece toda la gloria. De hecho, el libro del Apocalipsis, en múltiples ocasiones, dice que a Cristo Jesús pertenece la gloria y el honor, el poder, el dominio, la riqueza y la majestad. Todo eso le pertenece, porque Él es perfecto y porque en Él no hay pecado. En última instancia, lo que podemos hacer como cristianos es atribuir la gloria a Dios.

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