Joseph asked his brothers to tell his father Jacob of all his glory in Egypt. Jacob had nothing to do with Joseph's power and glory.
Not so our dear Lord Jesus! His Heavenly Father never had to be told of the glory of Christ, for the Father gave Him that glory, and Christ glorified His Father. They were entangled together in Christ's glory and in His Father's glory. All along the way, the Father directed and approved of everything Jesus ever did, Who was obedient in all things!
Not only did Jesus Himself testify as to His Father's active participation in and knowledge of the Son's glory, but the Apostles also bore witness to the Father's active work of glorifying His Own Son.
At the first miracle performed in Jesus' name after Pentecost, Christ was glorified by His Father. Peter made it crystal clear, that the God of their fathers had glorified His Son Jesus, in healing the man born lame. That miracle was done by faith in the risen Lord Jesus.
Peter made a political point: God had glorified Jesus, the Messiah Whom you all murdered! Nothing you did to shame and dishonor and kill Christ could countervail the exceeding glory that God the Father placed upon the Savior when the lame man was healed in His name.
Not only so, but Christ's glory is inexorably tied to His dying as our sacrifice, and for our crimes, in order to redeem us.
In Hebrews 2, we are told that we see Jesus crowned with glory and honor, in His incarnation, when He died to save His people.
The death of Christ as God's Lamb is His tangible glory that His people can view for themselves.
We cannot see Him in His brightness - not yet.
But we can see at His Supper symbols of His glory.
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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...
