The document discusses the importance of glorifying God. It references Jesus' prayer in John 17:1-5 where he asks God to glorify him so that he can glorify God. It states that eternal life is knowing God and Jesus, and seeing Jesus as glorious is important for having eternal life. The document also discusses how salvation is impossible through human effort alone, but possible through God, referencing the conversion of atheist John Wright. It concludes by saying that all circumstances, including tragic ones, only make sense when viewed as meant to glorify God.

1. GLORIFYING GOD

2. WHY IS
GLORIFYING GOD
IMPORTANT?

3. WHAT WOULD BE
YOUR LAST
SPEECH?

4. AFTER THE DISHES WERE CLEARED AND
THE DISCUSSIONS WERE DONE, HERE
WAS WHERE JESUS PUT THE EMPHASIS:

5. When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his
eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come;
glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 2 since
you have given him authority over all flesh, to give
eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this
is eternal life, that they know you the only true God,
and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you
on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave
me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own
presence with the glory that I had with you before the
world existed. John 17:1-5

6. glorify your Son
Definition of glorify
verb: glorify;
1. praise and worship (God).
"music is used to glorify God"
•acknowledge and reveal the majesty and splendor of (God) by one's
actions.
"God can be glorified through a life of scholarship"
2.2. describe or represent as admirable, especially unjustifiably.
"a football video glorifying violence"

7. When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his
eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come;
glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 2 since
you have given him authority over all flesh, to give
eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this
is eternal life, that they know you the only true God,
and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you
on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave
me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own
presence with the glory that I had with you before the
world existed. John 17:1-5

8. When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his
eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come;
glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 2 since
you have given him authority over all flesh, to give
eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this
is eternal life, that they know you the only true God,
and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you
on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave
me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own
presence with the glory that I had with you before the
world existed. John 17:1-5

9. When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his
eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come;
glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 2 since
you have given him authority over all flesh, to give
eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this
is eternal life, that they know you the only true God,
and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you
on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave
me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own
presence with the glory that I had with you before the
world existed. John 17:1-5

10. GLORIFY ME
IS NOT A PRAYER WE CAN PRAY
AND IT SHOWS THAT JESUS IS
GOD

11. That Jesus is glorified is
critically important for us!

12. When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his
eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come;
glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 2 since
you have given him authority over all flesh, to give
eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this
is eternal life, that they know you the only true God,
and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you
on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave
me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own
presence with the glory that I had with you before the
world existed. John 17:1-5

13. That we see Jesus as
glorious is an important
part of our having eternal
life!

14. JOHN 3:16 SHOWS US HOW
WE GET ETERNAL LIFE

15. When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his
eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come;
glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 2 since
you have given him authority over all flesh, to give
eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this
is eternal life, that they know you the only true God,
and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you
on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave
me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own
presence with the glory that I had with you before the
world existed. John 17:1-5

16. JOHN 17:3 DEFINES
ETERNAL LIFE

17. JESUS REQUESTED THIS OF THE
FATHER BECAUSE THIS IS
SOMETHING THAT WE CANNOT
ACCOMPLISH ON OUR OWN

18. When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his
eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come;
glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 2 since
you have given him authority over all flesh, to give
eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this
is eternal life, that they know you the only true God,
and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you
on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave
me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own
presence with the glory that I had with you before the
world existed. John 17:1-5

19. CONSIDER THE RICH YOUNG RULER WHO ASKED
"GOOD TEACHER, WHAT MUST I DO TO INHERIT
ETERNAL LIFE?”
HE WAS RICH. HE WAS YOUNG. HE WAS A RULER.
(LUKE 18:18)

20. Jesus said to him, “One thing you still lack. Sell all
that you have and distribute to the poor, and you
will have treasure in heaven;
and come, follow me.”
But when he heard these things, he became very
sad, for he was extremely rich.
Luke 18:24-27

21. Jesus, seeing that he had become sad, said, “How
difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter
the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to
go through the eye of a needle than for a rich
person to enter the kingdom of God.”
Those who heard it said,
“Then who can be saved?”
Luke 18:24-27

22. BUT WHAT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR
MAN IS POSSIBLE FOR GOD AS
JOHN WRIGHT, SCIENCE
FICTION WRITER AND ATHEIST
TELLS US.

23. JOHN WRIGHT’S ATHEIST PRAYER
“I prayed. ‘Dear God, I know… that you do not exist. Nonetheless, as
a scholar, I am forced to entertain the hypothetical possibility that I
am mistaken. So just in case I am mistaken, please reveal yourself to
me in some fashion that will prove your case. If you do not answer, I
can safely assume that either you do not care whether I believe in
you, or that you have no power to produce evidence to persuade
me…If you do not exist, this prayer is merely words in the air, and I
lose nothing but a bit of my dignity. Thanking you in advance for
your kind cooperation in this matter, John Wright.'”

24. JOHN WRIGHT’S TESTIMONY
“Something from beyond the reach of time and
space, more fundamental than reality, reached
across the universe and broke into my soul and
changed me…I was altered down to the root of
my being…It was like falling in love.”
https://strangenotions.com/wright-conversion/

25. Lastly, as children of God, our
circumstances will only make
sense when we see that we
everything in the world was
meant to glorify God

26. When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his
eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come;
glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 2 since
you have given him authority over all flesh, to give
eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this
is eternal life, that they know you the only true God,
and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you
on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave
me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own
presence with the glory that I had with you before the
world existed. John 17:1-5

27. Westminster Shorter Catechism (First Question)
Q. What is the chief end of man?
A. Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.

28. HERE’S A GOOD
BOOK TO PONDER
ON THIS
THOUGHT.

29. Consider as well that all the tragic circumstances in this
world, especially those we experience, only make sense
when viewed through God’s perspective. That they have a
purpose that will ultimately point to God’s glory.