Purpose: Sharing in the Father’s Glory to Accomplish the Mission

-John 17.22

Scriptures to Consider:

[JOHN 17.22] - 22 “I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one.

[JOHN 17.1,4,5,10,24] - 1 After saying all these things, Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so he can give glory back to you. 4 I brought glory to you here on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 5 Now, Father, bring me into the glory we shared before the world began. 10 All who are mine belong to you, and you have given them to me, so they bring me glory. 24 Father, I want these whom you have given me to be with me where I am. Then they can see all the glory you gave me because you loved me even before the world began!

[HEBREWS 1.3] - 3 The Son radiates God’s own glory and expresses the very character of God

[HEBREWS 2.5-9] - 5 Now it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come about which we are speaking. 6 But someone has testified somewhere,  “What is man that you take thought for him, or the son of man that you care for him? 7 You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor 8 You put everything in subjection under his feet.” Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. But in fact we do not yet see everything under his control. 9 But we do see Jesus who for a little while was made lower than the angels, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor.

[ISAIAH 6.1-4] - It was in the year King Uzziah died that I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a lofty throne, and the train of his robe filled the Temple. 2 Attending him were mighty seraphim, each having six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. 3 They were calling out to each other,

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies!

    The whole earth is filled with his glory!”

4 Their voices shook the Temple to its foundations, and the entire building was filled with smoke.

[PSALM 19.1-4] - 

1 The heavens proclaim the glory of God.

    The skies display his craftsmanship.

2 Day after day they continue to speak;

    night after night they make him known.

3 They speak without a sound or word;

    their voice is never heard.

4 Yet their message has gone throughout the earth,

    and their words to all the world.

Truths to Guide Us:

An important part of making and forming disciples, and one that Jesus models, is Sharing the Father’s Glory to Accomplish the Mission 

(PURPOSE) [7th Priority of a Disciple Maker]

1. GLORY belongs to God

2. GLORY has been revealed (uniquely) in Jesus

3. GLORY is our eternal reward

4. GLORY has a purpose

Words to Illuminate:

We are here to behold God, to set our sights on a higher person; to see who Adam hid from, who the psalmist sang to, who the prophets spoke for, who the disciples walked with, and who Jesus came to make known.

Glory isn't a part of God; it's all that God is. Every aspect of who God is and every part of what God does is glorious. But even that's not enough of a description. Not only is he glorious in every way, but his very glory is glorious!

-Paul David Tripp

God must have no bounds, no limits, no point beyond which he cannot go. Otherwise he is reduced to a little god that we pal around with, the God who helps us win baseball games and be on time when we hit traffic. This isn't the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He isn't the God who laid the foundations of Earth, He is reduced to a little cheap God that we have made, not the infinite God who made us. Our God is indeed a consuming fire.

 -A.W. Tozer

[Unity] is not achieved by hunting enthusiastically for the lowest common theological denominator, but by common adherence to the gospel.

-D.A. Carson

Child of God, don’t you know only you share the glow. 

It’s a light from within, when Jesus’ blood covers sin. 

It’s the wonderful glory of God.