The word "glorify" means to honor, to magnify, and to cause the dignity and worth of someone to be manifest and acknowledged.
Our Lord Jesus has glory for a number of reasons: He is God, He is Creator, He is Prince, the Son of David, He is the Judge of all the world.
But His greatest Glory is His sacrifice at Calvary. It is His greatest work, that He died to save His loved ones!
If we forget that Christ's death at Calvary is His greatest Glory, we will miss the meaning of some precious texts.
For when Christ cries out that the Father glorify Him just before His death, it is not a desire to "skip over" that death and look to His honor in the future in Heaven.
No: Christ sought to die to save His people. He desired to finish the work of redemption. He knew it was His greatest work, and was His greatest cause for Glory and Honor!
So in passages such as Isaiah 49:5-6, John 12:27-28, John 13:31-32, and John 17:1-3, Christ is declaring and searching for the Glory and the honor that attends His suffering and death to save us!
The disciples thought that His taking the throne of David was His chief glory, but Christ knew better than they: becoming God's slain Lamb of sacrifice was His chief honor.
His suffering at Calvary was the entering in to His Glory. When He was made lower than the angels and suffered death to save many sons, we see Him crowned with glory and honor.
His Father loves Him for the suffering and death He voluntarily embraced for His sheep.
His death is also the main cause of the Saints' eternal praise to His Glory - He is worthy of glory, because He was slain for us!
The Lord's Table is our weekly honoring of His great Glory.
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There was much consternation here if no human sacrifice were sanctioned by the Jewish Law, how could the sacrifice of JESUS be accepted? One answer came from Hebrews 10:7-10 but to the Indian mind the glory concept is not clear, how can anyone give any sacrifice for a good cause, for example if Romans 5:6 to 8. We suffer from terrible unbeliefs and humans look on with suspicions as Indians who cannot follow the Hebrew meanings of a sacrifice and often miscontrue it for some cuckoldry and we have to rely on our pirouttes to survive! Thanks for your sermon, maybe you did not mean this sort of reaction but conditions here are too unwelcoming to share the glory concept of sacrifice as Indians pull the rug on one another!
John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
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