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Called to Share His Glory
The document emphasizes the importance of God's glory and how it is displayed through creation and the lives of believers. It discusses the relationship between God's holiness, glory, and humanity's role in reflecting His glory. The message aims to provide comfort by affirming that believers are called to share in God's glory and will be glorified along with Him.
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- 1. Welcome to Abundant LifeFellowship Helping the World make it to Heaven By Bringing Heaven to Earth
- 3. Called to ShareHis Glory A Message of Comfort
- 4. • Something Godis or does in creation or in heaven that displays His power, beauty, splendor, or wisdom causing His creatures to admire, respect, worship, praise, and stand in awe of Him. • 225 times in OT: Kavod used 149 times:—heaviness, importance—as in a weighty matter. • “And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount . Ex. 24:17 • For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison. 2 Cor. 4:17 God’s Glory
- 5. God’s Glory: His HolinessOn Display • God’s Holiness describes His infinite perfections of character, power or purpose. • God’s glory is the public demonstration of His holiness • God’s Glory is the radiance of His Holiness. • Is. 6: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of His glory.”
- 6. God’s Bottom Line: HisGlory Must Be Revealed • One of biggest Bible themes: God does everything to ensure that the Perfections of His Holiness get noticed and appreciated by His creation. • “For the sake of My name I delay My wrath, and for My praise I restrain it for you, In order not to cut you off.“For My own sake, for My own sake…” Is. 48: 9-11 • But Jesus answered, "I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!” Luke 19:40
- 7. God’s Desires Glory ThroughHis Children • In Jesus: “We beheld His glory, glory of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth. • “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father Who is in heaven. Matt. 5:16 • “…For I have made them for my glory. It was I who created them.’" Is. 43:7
- 8. Creation Glorifies God •All Creation: “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. Ps. 19:1 • For by Him all things were created…all things have been created through Him and for Him. (Jesus) • By scale, complexity, beauty, unsearchable wisdom and elegantly-tuned goodness
- 9. In the beginning,God created the heavens and the earth. Gen. 1:1
- 11. God Longs toGlorify US! • “The glory that You have given Me I have given to them. John 17:22 • And we all…are being transformed into the same image ( of Jesus) from one degree of glory to another. 2 Cor 3:18 • The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with Him in order that we may also be GLORIFIED with him. Rom 8:16-17 • And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified. Romans 8:30
- 12. God Longs toGlorify Us • As His Sons and daughters • As brothers & sisters of Jesus • As the Bride of Jesus • As heirs of God & joint-heirs of Jesus • God gave Jesus ALL power and authority. We share in that!
- 13. Glorified in Heaven ByWorking With God • “His servants will serve Him” (Rev. 22:3) • "My Father is always at His work to this very day, and I, too, am working" (John 5:17) • "His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’ Matt. 25:23
- 14. Joint-Heir Cosmic Impact •For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God…in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. Rom. 8:18-21 • Reigning & ruling with Jesus: • 1000 yr. in heaven: Rev. 20, 2 Tim. 2:12 • Do you not know that the saints will judge the world and angels? 1 Cor. 6:2-3
- 15. Glory That Comforts • For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. • Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. • Therefore comfort one another with these words. 1 Thess. 4:16-17
- 16. What If…. • Oneday, God decided to glorify Himself in other galaxies? • God called us to work alongside Him to build other worlds and civilizations-as Jesus did? • God put groups of us in charge of new Eden-like worlds with legions of angelic to help? • Why not? He did with His First- Born of many brethren— Jesus!
- 17. “ But we speakGod’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages TO OUR GLORY but just as it is written: ‘Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And which have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him.’” 1 Cor. 2:7-9 Therefore, Comfort one another with these words!
- 18. Called to ShareHis Glory A Message of Comfort