OUTLINE:
Pulpit Messages
- 11/11/21 – Beholding God’s Glory
- 11/7/21 – Whose Life is This? Whose Glory?
- 11/4/21 – Do All to the Glory of God
Heb 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Act 13:22
And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
Pulpit Messages
- 11/11/21 – Beholding God’s Glory
- 11/7/21 – Whose Life is This? Whose Glory?
- 11/4/21 – Do All to the Glory of God
To God Be the Glory
To slight God’s glory is to slight one’s own sanctification, for you cannot be sanctified in the absence of respect for His glory. (Ps 24:7-10; 1Co 2:8; 1Pe 4:14; 2Pe 1:17)
Psa 8:4
what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? [humility in a nutshell]
2Ti 1:9
Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began.
To God Be the Glory
To slight God’s glory is to slight one’s own sanctification, for you cannot be sanctified in the absence of respect for His glory. (Ps 24:7-10; 1Co 2:8; 1Pe 4:14; 2Pe 1:17)
Psa 24:10
Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory! Selah
2Pe 1:17
For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,”
1Co 2:8
None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
1Pe 4:14
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
To God Be the Glory
To slight God’s glory is to slight one’s own sanctification, for you cannot be sanctified in the absence of respect for His glory. (Ps 24:7-10; 1Co 2:8; 1Pe 4:14; 2Pe 1:17)
Beholding God’s Glory
Evidence of God’s glory is wrought through His salvific plan for His children.
Who Are God’s Children?
Only those adopted into His family are His children. (Jn 1:12-13; Ro 8:14-17; Jn 8:44; 1Jn 3:10)
Jn 1:12-13
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
Ro 8:14-16
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we [believers] are children of God…
Jn 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
1Jn 3:10
By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
Who Are God’s Children?
Only those adopted into His family are His children. (Jn 1:12-13; Ro 8:14-17; Jn 8:44; 1Jn 3:10)
Henry Scougal on Sanctification
“The art and industry of man cannot form the smallest herb, or make a stalk of corn to grow in the field; it is the energy of nature, and the influences of heaven, which produce this effect;…”
Henry Scougal on Sanctification
…it is God “who causeth the grass to grow, and the herb for the service of man” (Ps 104:14); and yet nobody will say that the labours of the [farmer] are useless or unnecessary.”
Progressive/Experiential Sanctification
The more we are beholden to God’s glory, the more we are sanctified. They are two sides of the same coin. (2 Co 3:18; Eph 1:17-18)
“beholding”
from katoptrizo – means to reflect, mirror; in context, means to behold as in a mirror. As a believer is sanctified, they see the glory of Christ, Himself, in themselves, as they are being transformed, and it excites them to see His glorious work in them!
The glory isn’t ours to take because we know God has caused this growth.