To God Be The Glory Defining Glory In

To God Be The Glory

Defining Glory • In OT Hebrew: “difficult, weight, heaviness, worthiness, reputation, or honor” • A Person’s Wealth, Position, Fame, Etc… • Genesis 45: 13, 1 Chron. 22: 5, 1 Kings 10: 5 • Used Broadly To Include The Army They Command • Isaiah 8: 7, Proverbs 14: 28 • For God, Includes The Characteristic of Brightness • Exodus 24: 17, Ezekiel 1: 4, 14, 28 • In NT Greek: “I think, opinion, reputation” • Still Describes Wealth, Position, & Brightness • Matthew 6: 29, 1 Corinthians 15: 41

Sermon Title Sundays at 6: 00 P. M. The Unchanging God of Glory (Acts 7: 2) September 15, 2019 God, Glorified in Creation (Ps 19: 1; 148: 1 -5, Rev. 4: 11) October 27, 2019 God, Glorified in Christ (John 13: 31) November 17, 2019 God, Glorified in the Church (Eph 1: 6 -14, 3: 10, 21) December 15, 2019 The Failure To Glorify God (Rom. 1: 21, 3: 23) January 19, 2020 God, Glorified in United Worship (Rom. 15: 6 -7, Ps. 50: 23) February 16, 2020 God, Glorified in Proven Character (1 Peter 4: 8 -11) March 15, 2020 God, Glorified in Good Deeds (Matt. 5: 16) April 19, 2020 God, Glorified in Evangelism (2 Thess. 2: 14 -15, Isa. 66: 18 -23) May 17, 2020 God, Glorified in Our Body & Spirit (1 Cor. 6: 20 & 7) June 21, 2020 God, Glorified in the name Christian (1 Peter 4: 16) July 19, 2020 God, Glorified in Judgment (Phil. 2: 11, 2 Thess. 1: 6 -10) August 16, 2020

How does Jesus demonstrate this about God His Father? God’s Glory is Provoking Unique Absolute

Jesus’ relationship with the Father • The Son is loved by the Father. [Jhn 3: 35, 5: 20, 10: 17 NASB] 35 "The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand. 20 "For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing; and [the Father] will show Him greater works than these, so that you will marvel. 17 "For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again.

Jesus’ relationship with the Father • The Son is loved by the Father. • Everything the Father owned; He gave to the Son. [Jhn 3: 35, 5: 26, 13: 3, 17: 7 NASB] 35 "The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand. 26 "For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself; 3 [Jesus, ] knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God, 7 "Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You;

Jesus’ relationship with the Father • The Son is loved by the Father. • Everything the Father owned; He gave to the Son. • All that the Son speaks and does is the will of the Father. [John 5: 30, 6: 38, 8: 28 -29 NASB] 30 "I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. 38 "For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. 28 So Jesus said, …I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me. 29 "And He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him. "

Jesus’ relationship with the Father • The Son is loved by the Father. • Everything the Father owned; He gave to the Son. • All that the Son speaks and does is the will of the Father. • The Son has received glory from the Father that He may glorify the Father. John 8: 54, 13: 32, 17: 1 NASB 54 Jesus answered, "If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing; it is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say, 'He is our God'; 32 if God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him immediately. 1 Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You,

Jesus’ relationship with the Father • The Son is loved by the Father. • Everything the Father owned; He gave to the Son. • All that the Son speaks and does is the will of the Father. • The Son has received glory from the Father that He may glorify the Father. • The Son came from the Father and ultimately returned to the Father. John 1: 1 -2 , 17: 17 NASB 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 17 Jesus said to her, ”…go to My brethren and say to them, 'I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God. '"

[John 1: 14, 18 NASB] 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. 18 No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained [Him. ]

The Son’s Hour of Glory And Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. (12: 23) Therefore when he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him; (13: 31) Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit. (19: 30) Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You (17: 1) “I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do. (17: 4)

God Glorified in the Jesus the Son At the cross, God demonstrates His love through judgment. To separate one from the other diminishes the glory that God deserves.

God of Love, God of Righteousness God the Son became flesh to reveal the Father. God the Son demonstrated the glory of the Father through the cross. The cross reveals to us both the splendor and weight of God’s love and judgment.

Love, Righteousness, and Oneness John 17: 20 -24 John 14: 5 -6 John 1: 12 -14, 20: 21

Love, Righteousness, and Oneness The Son revealed the glory of the Father that we might be one with Them. John 14: 5 -6 John 1: 12 -14, 20: 21

Love, Righteousness, and Oneness The Son revealed the glory of the Father that we might be one with Them. That oneness with the Father and the Son has come through the cross of Jesus. John 1: 12 -14, 20: 21

Love, Righteousness, and Oneness The Son revealed the glory of the Father that we might be one with Them. That oneness with the Father and the Son has come through the cross of Jesus. The Father makes us sons that we too may share and share in His glory.

To God Be The Glory