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for apart from Me you can do nothing.” John 15:8, “By this is My
Father glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My
disciples.” He said that His Father was glorified if you bring forth
much fruit.

He gets glory because He is sovereign but He gets a special glory if
we agree with Him and work with Him. Matthew 5:16, “Let your
light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good
works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” Others see your
fruit and they glorify your Father.

Galatians 1:15&16, “But when He who had set me apart, even from
my mother’s womb, and called me through His grace, was pleased
to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles,
I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood…” The Apostle
Paul said that God revealed His Son in Him. Galatians 1:24, “And
they were glorifying God because of me.” They were glorifying
God because of Paul.

What I want to do is to look at redemptive living from the standpoint
of those who want to work with God; not when we resist and not
when we try to do our own thing and not when we seek our own will
or glory but when we choose to glorify God. 1 Corinthians
6:19&20, “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the
Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you
are not your own? For you have been bought with a price; therefore
glorify God in your body.” The Holy Spirit lives in you and there is
a way to glorify God. 1 Corinthians 10:31, “Whether, then, you eat
or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Give no
offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God; just as I
also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the
profit of the many, that they may be saved.”

I want to describe the redemptive life from the standpoint of those
who unite with the Lord. What I would like to show you first is the
indispensable condition of redemptive living. Then I want to show
you the indispensable disposition of redemptive living. Then I want