understanding the Glory of God. 1

Theme: Understanding the Glory of God
Message for Sunday October 4th 2015
What Glory is and How to benefit from the Glory of God Part 1

Introduction: Glory could be defined as the quality of a person or thing which secures general praise or honor. It is the quality that brings or gives renown. It is all that one is and has. God’s glory is therefore all that God is and has. It is his quality that brings Him general praise and honor. With this understanding, we shall be looking at some qualities of God that commands our praise and causes us to honor Him above all. Later, we shall be looking at how to take advantage of God’s Glory.

 Five qualities of God that demonstrates His Glory

All the qualities of God are glorious but because we cannot claim to know all there is to know of him, we shall be looking at five of His qualities that He has revealed to us that always makes us want to honor Him.

His holiness: The entire atmosphere of heaven declares the glory of God and what makes Him so glorious in His personality which is his holiness. He is highly set apart from all others and is the only one who has a right to look down on all. He is the high and lofty one who sits in the circle of the earth and controls all the affairs on earth. His glory is demonstrates so much in heaven and on earth and all of His creation that all the saints and angels and every other creature in glory could say to him is HOLY, HOLY, HOLY! [See Isa.6:1-4; Rev.4:8]. He is so glorious in holiness that wherever He reveals His manifest presence becomes holy [until today, Mount Sinai and the nation and people in Israel are still holy (Ex.3:1-6)]; whoever he reveals Himself to become holy, whatever and whoever is used to honor Him becomes holy. Whoever He calls to serve Him becomes holy and honorable when they obey. Whoever decides to separate himself or herself to God becomes holy as an act of their will. We must distinguish here between the true God and others pretending to be God.

First we must understand that He declared the end from the beginning. Then he causes us to begin to take the journey. This is why He gives us vision. As we pursue the vision, we begin to enjoy a glorious destiny and His word [Son] and Spirit keep us on course in the journey until we arrive at His intended destination where He is already waiting ahead of us. [Isa.46:9-10; Rev.13:8]

Second, He is the one who created the Heavens and the earth by His Spirit and His word. [Gen.1:1-3, Ps.33:6, 9]

Third, He is the self-existing one who was never created but who created all persons and things. [Col.1:12-19, Isa.46:9-10]

Fourth, He is the all sufficient one who does not require help from anyone. [Ps.50:10, 12]

Fifth, He is the one at whose beckoning the heavens and the earth and all the planets and spirit beings known and unknown to us present themselves. [Isa.5:26; 7:18]

Sixth He is the only one who makes rich and does not add any sorrow with it. In other words, He can bless a man without any strings attached which the man has not chosen of his own free will. [Prov.10:22]

Seventh, He is the most secure person in the entire universe. Even when Lucifer rebelled, he let his angels fight him. He never lifted a hand. At the end just an angel will chain Lucifer and throw him in hell. [See Rev.12:7-12; 20:1-15]

Eighth, He is so notoriously truthful that everyone wants to associate with him because they know they can count on His integrity. Sadly though, many have not met him because they have been deceived to believe he is something or someone else or that He does not exist. [Titus 1:2, Isa.55:8-11]

Ninth, He has a son whose name is Jesus the Christ who is forever the most influential man who walked the sands of time because of His holiness. [John 3:16, Matthew 3:16-17] 

The above qualities among many others too numerous to mention make Him so attractive that we all want Him on our side even when we cannot measure up to these standards.

His word: Another quality that Separates God from others is His word. His word is the most powerful word in the entire universe because of its integrity. Integrity means moral excellence and truthfulness. This is so important that He alone has the audacity to say that not one of His words would return to him unproductive. [See Isa.55:8-11, Gen.1:1-31, Acts 11:28]. All those who have truly associated with him have this testimony that whatever He says comes to pass because He cannot lie [Titus 1:2, Joshua 21:45].

His word together with His holiness brought about the entire creation. [See Heb.11:3, Ps.33:6, 9].

His word is a life giver because He quickens the dead and calls those things which are not as though they were. [See Romans 4:17-21, Heb.4:12, John 11:23-26]

His word is medicinal: It heals sicknesses, performs surgery, and recreates body parts where such parts have been damaged/destroyed like in the story of the man born blind in John 9. [Prov. 4:20-22; Ps.107:20; John 6:63; Matthew 8:5-13].