By
Rev. Juliet Schimpf
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Broadcast
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LINK to CFRA broadcast of
Sunday, April 5th, 2015)
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'To God be the Glory'
Lord Alfred Tennyson [1809-1892,
British Poet] “There's no glory like
those who save their country.”
Napoleon Bonaparte: “Glory is
fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
1 Peter 1:24 “All men are like
grass, and their glory is like the flowers of the field.”
1.
God with us
2.
God for us
3.
God
in us
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1. God With
Us
John Stott: “In a word, our glory is our obsession. It dominates our minds, fills our horizons,
and engrosses our attention. For the
apostle Paul this was the cross. The
cross of Christ was the center of his faith, of his life, and of his ministry;
and it should be the center of ours. Let
other people be obsessed with fame, power, sex, and money; we who claim to
follow Jesus should be obsessed with the cross like the apostle Paul. This was not a peculiarity of Paul’s,
however. I think we might say that the
cross was central to the mind of Paul only because it had been central to the
mind of Christ.”
Isaiah
6:1 ”In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne,
high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they
covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were
flying. 3And they were calling to one another:
“Holy, holy,
holy is the Lord
Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”
John 1:14
14 “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among
us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from
the Father, full of grace and truth.”
2. God For US
JOHN PIPER: ”God is uppermost in His own affections: The chief end of God is to glorify God and
enjoy Himself forever. The reason this
may sound strange is that we are more accustomed to think about our duty than
God’s design. And when we do ask about
God’s design, we are too prone to describe it with ourselves at the center of
God’s affections. We may say, for
example, that His design is to redeem the world. Or to save sinners. Or to restore creation…But God’s saving
designs are penultimate, not ultimate.”
AND SO GOD SENT HIS SON…
PIPER: “Ever since the incarnate, redeeming work of
Jesus, God is gladly glorified by sinners only through the glorification of the
risen God-Man, Jesus Christ. His bloody
death is the blazing center of the glory of God….The “face of Jesus Christ” is
the beauty of Christ reaching its climax in the cross. The bloody face of Christ crucified (and
triumphant!) is the countenance of the glory of God…..living for the glory of
God must mean living for the glory of Christ crucified. Christ is the image of God. He is the sum of God’s glory in human
form. And his beauty shines most
brightly at
his darkest hour.”
PIPER: “The glory of Christ reaches its highest
point in the obedient sacrifice of the cross where Jesus triumphed over the
devil. Jesus said in that final hour of
his own sacrifice, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in
him.” (John 13:31)
PAUL: GALATIANS 6:14 “God forbid that I should
glory in anything except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the
world has been crucified unto me and I have been crucified unto the world.”
3. God
in Us
Colossians 1:27:
“Christ in YOU, the hope of glory….”
God created us for
his own glory. God did not need to
create man, yet he created us for his own glory.
- Isaiah 43:7
“everyone who is called by my name,
whom I created for my glory”
- Eph. 1:4-6 4 “For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5he[c] predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.”
- EPHESIANS 1:11-12 11“In him we were also chosen,[e] having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, 12in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.”
WAYNE GRUDEM: “The fact that God created us for his own
glory determines the correct answer to the question, ‘What is our purpose in
life?’ Our purpose must be to fulfill
the reason that God created us: to
glorify him. When we are speaking with
respect to God himself, that is a good summary of our purpose.”
THIS EXPLAINS THE WESTMINSTER
CATECHISM: Q. 1. What is the chief end
of man? A. Man's chief end is to glorify God, [b] and to enjoy him for ever.
"The aim
and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the
refreshment of the soul." - Johann Sebastian Bach
1 CORINTHIANS
10:31 “So whether you eat or drink or
whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”
The Lord’s
Prayer: “For Thine is the Kingdom, the
power and the glory, for ever and ever, amen.”
Let us pray, together:
Our Heavenly Father, We thank You , that You have displayed your glory in creation,
and that You then gave us your only Son, Christ, full of your glory. We want to
learn to live for Your glory. We thank You Lord, that You died for us and that we
can see the light of Your glory in the face of Christ, (as second Corinthians, four,
explains it). The light of the knowledge of Your glory is displayed in the face
of Christ. Father, help us to live for Your glory, not our own.
Would you live through us? We pray that your lights shine for You.
We conclude by saying the Lord’s Prayer, which says, “Thine is the Kingdom,
the power and the GLORY, for ever and ever, AMEN.
Rev.
Juliet Schimpf
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