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1. The Bodily Glorification of God

John 1:29-34

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... member of Christ. Finally, we glorify God with the body when we physically do things that glorify God. Or, in other words, we glorify God with the body when we allow our bodies to be used in service to humankind. This is probably the greatest glorification of God with the body. I remember the night I worshiped God at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. The occasion was the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday. Although we had arrived there very early, we found only a few seats way ...

2. Skull Hill

John 12:20-36

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Leonard Sweet

... to the world under the title “A Message Signed With Blood to the Nation of the Cross.” Their only words were “Jesus, help me.” In the eyes of the world, these kidnapped Christians were defeated by ISIS. But their moment of greatest defeat was their moment of glorification. Let us pray for all Christians in this part of the world, and may our faith continue to submit to the Master’s Touch, and the Potter’s Wheel. May the beauty of your vessel be such that we can say with Aaron, May the Lord bless ...

3. See Something, Say Something, Do Something, Be Something

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Leonard Sweet

... recognizes that as the door closes behind his betrayer, the way to the cross has now finally been fully opened. Judas’ act of betrayal is not a death knell to Jesus’ mission and ministry. Rather, it is the first chord of a final triumphal march towards “glorification.” The “hour” that Jesus had been announcing as imminent (John 12:33,27,31;13:1) is now at last here. It is the hour when the Son of Man will be glorified and through that action so will God be glorified “in him” (“doxa tou ...

4. The Seventh Sunday of Easter

John 17:1-5

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Kendall McCabe

... major word in John's Gospel. At the very beginning, in what scholars call the prologue, we are told "we beheld his glory," and then the rest of the Gospel shows how it was done. This past Thursday we celebrated the feast of the Ascension, that occasion which emphasizes the glorification of Christ - he has been raised above all things and is Lord of all. Today in the Gospel we stand between events, for we are listening to Jesus pray on the night before his death, and he is already speaking of his ...

5. The Great Reveal

John 12:20-33

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Lori Wagner

... we quickly read through this scripture in John 12, we see that a group of Greeks wants to speak with Jesus, but directly afterword, we see Jesus suddenly launch into an explanation about a grain of wheat, eternal life, and his impending death and glorification. What on earth (pun intended yet again) is going on here? At first glance, it seems that Jesus ignores the Greeks’ request and simply moves on to an unrelated topic about his coming ordeal. Or if he’s addressing the crowd around him, including ...

6. God's Glory Manifest

Exodus 24:1-18

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... disregard become channels of the gracious lifegiving water of God's grace, flowing into our lives to free, to forgive, to forge new possibilities and new opportunities for us and other people. The glorification of Jesus in John's Gospel is his being lifted up on the cross and from the grave. In Jesus' glorification is also the glorification of God. In the lifting up of Jesus is the manifestation of the glory of the divine presence. The Johannine Jesus says, "And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will ...

7. The Gospel According to Christ’s Enemies

John 11:1-16

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Richard Hoefler

... of eternal life.10 This gift of life restored will glorify Jesus not so much in the sense that people will admire the event and praise Jesus, but in the sense that it will lead to our Lord’s death on the cross which is a definite step in his glorification. God and the Son of God will be glorified in the death of Lazarus because the life necessary to bring Lazarus back from the dead will be Christ’s own life given freely on the cross to bring all persons out of death to life. A little boy was asked ...

8. The Whole Shebang in Six Words

John 11:38-44

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Leonard Sweet

... we're going to have a crash course in theology and do it all in . . . how many words? That's right. Three words. Three simple, one syllable words. In classical Christian teaching, there are three great doctrinal divisions: justification, sanctification, glorification. Each of these complex doctrines derive from a couplet of words, each beginning with the same word. Each couplet in turn derives from a biblical story, one of which is our text for this morning. Justification: Come Down First, justification. I ...

9. God’s Two Hands

John 16:5-16

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Leonard Sweet

... fulfillment of Jesus’ mission is made evident by Jesus’ parting words in today’s gospel text. Even though Jesus still stands before his disciples, there are “many things” he cannot yet tell them. Before the cross, before the empty tomb, before Jesus’ glorification, there is just no way for his followers to follow him fully. It is only after Jesus has departed, and after “the Spirit of truth comes” that the disciples can hear and understand what they cannot yet know. The Paraclete will reveal ...

10. Facing Death

John 18:1-19:42

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April Yamasaki

... themselves, and cast lots to see who would get the best piece. Jesus endured through all of the pain and abuse, until finally at the moment of his own choosing, he laid down his life. “It is finished,” he said (John 29:30). His moment of glorification had come. Jesus faced death with such fearlessness, with such a holy fierceness, that he went forward to meet those who had come to arrest him, he confronted and questioned the authorities, he laid down his life just as he had predicted. Just as he had ...

11. The Nearness Of A Faraway God

Isaiah 40:12-18

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Erskine White

... in the modern world, where people can be mere cogs in society's great machinery. In communist countries, which deify the state, or in capitalist countries, which deify wealth, people can certainly feel alienated an insignificant. But there is another side to this glorification of ourselves: we "de-glorify" God. Just as some people can only feel important by putting others down, so too, can we glorify and elevate ourselves as men and women by lowering God. In ancient days, people were afraid even to say the ...

12. The Majesty Of God's Love

John 17:1-11

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Mark Ellingsen

... especially crucial to us. Jesus had been talking to his disciples about life after he left them (John 14:2-3, 18). By the time he got to the prayer in our lesson for today, he was addressing the theme of his glorification (John 17:1). Of course, Jesus' glorification happened both at the resurrection and again in the ascension. Consequently the prayer speaks to our situation on this Sunday of the Easter season, the Sunday after the ascension. Here is what Jesus prayed: "Holy Father [he prayed], keep them [my ...

13. Divine Liturgy, Divine Play, Divine Comedy

John 13:31-38

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Carl Jech

... nothing but "an imitation of an imitation!" Plato had a very low opinion of art and artists because he felt that art was just too far removed from Reality. Plato would not have appreciated John's words about the glorification of Jesus as representing and symbolizing the glorification of God. The Bible, on the other hand, greatly values symbols and artistic images because they remind us how much God cares about the material world and because they help to give us a broad-ranging perspective on truth. Playing ...

14. A Glory Revealed in Grace and Love

John 13:1-17

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... All this was to happen "at once." That very evening he would be betrayed into the hands of his enemies. Jesus would be "glorified," lifted up on the cross, so that all might be drawn to him in love. Jesus used two titles to describe how he saw his glorification and how he exercised his Lordship. Twice during the evening he calls himself "Teacher and Lord," and this is right, for he is both. Now we might expect a teacher to be willing to set an example by deed as well as by word. And Jesus, the great teacher ...

15. A Glory Revealed in Truth and Faithfulness

John 19:28-37

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... of the world. Almost every detail in Isaiah 52:13--53:12 is a prophecy of the way God would take away our sin in Christ. In this prophecy we see the Suffering Child as one who would be "glorified." But this glorification would occur by being "lifted up" on a cross. Glorification would come through suffering. The prophecy emphasizes that the Child will become a sacrificial Lamb, upon whom our sins will be laid and who will be led away into the wilderness of death, like the Scapegoat on the Day of Atonement ...

16. Discerning the Way of God

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

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Hubert Beck

... it complicates the problem? A key word for what happens when God’s forgiveness looses us from the claims of sin is "freedom." On the one hand God releases us from the ultimate demands of sin, but on the other hand he releases us for service to him and the glorification of his name. It is at this point that we feel the real pinch. If God would give us a rigid set of rules and laws to live by, directing, as it were, our every waking moment, we would know what was required of us in order to glorify his ...

17. We Wish To See Jesus

John 12:20-36

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Richard A. Jensen

... . "We wish to see Jesus." That is the request of many people in our world today. That may be your request today. I hope that it is. What we discover in this story from John’s Gospel is that, if we want to see Jesus, we should look to his glorification; if we want to see Jesus, we should look to his death on the cross. That is where Jesus himself directs our eyes. There are, as we have seen, many, many ways to portray Jesus. The central portrait, however, the image of Jesus that is to control all the other ...

18. The Wedding Guest

John 2:1-11

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Mark Trotter

... come. It would mean life can be the way God created it to be. Life can be for me the way I want it to be. But Jesus said, "It's not my hour." Which means, it is not the time for his glorification. John believed that time would be when he is lifted up on a cross. Glorification means that you will see his divine nature. Jesus, himself, said later in the gospel, "When I am lifted up I will draw all people to myself." The point of view of the Gospel of John is, that before that time not everybody ...

19. The Cross Burden or Blessing?

Philippians 3:12-4:1

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Leonard Sweet

... those who are at “cross purposes,” not only because they are wrong-headed, but also because they “glory” in their failed and faulty convictions. They celebrate attitudes and indulgences that should bring them “shame.” Paul perceives that this gross glorification is caused by a fixation upon “earthly things.” Instead of the love of the immutable and immaterial those who are “enemies of the cross” are consumed by their love of the impermanent (Romans 8:5-11 offer further commentary upon ...

20. Do You Believe In Miracles?

Matthew 15:29-39

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James Merritt

... an exact replica of the city and convinced the official he was exactly who he claimed to be just by what he wrote. That is exactly what the miracles of Jesus were for – to reveal He was exactly who He said He was. The last purpose is glorification. The ultimate purpose of everything that Jesus said and everything that Jesus did was to glorify His Father in heaven. After Jesus healed that paralytic we spoke of earlier, we read this in Matthew 9:8, “When the crowds saw it… they glorified God, who had ...

21. The Light That Dwells Among Us

Matthew 16:13-20, Matthew 16:21-28, Matthew 17:1-13

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Lori Wagner

... “temple,” but the time has come when the “kingdom” is at hand, and God’s Spirit has come to dwell among and within the people of God. It is the time of the outpouring of God’s Spirit upon all, and the foreshadowing of Jesus’ glorification. The event with Jesus on the mountain occurs a week after a conversation he has with his disciples regarding who he is. The disciples tell him, some of the people call him John the Baptist returned, others Elijah, others Jeremiah or another prophet. (By the ...

22. Praise God! Selah!

Luke 1:67-80, Luke 1:57-66, Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:26-38, Luke 1:5-25, Luke 1:1-4

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Lori Wagner

... with “lifting up, of exalting” or even “to weigh” or reflect upon. No matter how you translate it, the Selah is a time of break from the flow of the music and the regular rhythm and an insertion of a “pregnant moment,” after which there’s a glorification again! After that time of pause to contemplate the phrase, the praise always begins! In an even bigger way! To Selah is to savor the wisdom and presence of God and God’s gifts to us….even those we don’t understand. Too many of us are so ...

23. Dressed for Success?

Luke 24:36-49, Luke 24:50-53, Acts 1:1-11

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Lori Wagner

... created in One with the Eternal, we gave up that eternal life for a different kind of relationship with God when we exited the garden. However in our return to God, we can be clothed in God’s presence, and “walk” with God again, and when we are glorifed, we again can receive that access to eternal life through the gift of Jesus. Some midrash in the Jewish tradition claim that Adam was created in the Cloud of God’s Glory, and it covered him like skin. When he sinned, it fell away, but then God re ...

24. Topsy-turvy Christianity

Luke 6:17-26, Luke 6:27-36

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J. Will Ormond

... attention to the moral demands of the Word of God. We need to remind ourselves that these beatitudes and woes were never meant to be rules for the ordering of political life. They have to do, rather, with the kingdom of God. There is no glorification of poverty, hunger, grief, nor persecution in Luke's version of the beatitudes. One is not exhorted to seek these negative positions in order to obtain a blessing. There is no glossing over the reality of present distress. There is no call for stoic endurance ...

25. Tempted By Good

Matthew 4:1-11

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Don M. Aycock

... been the most powerful man on earth had he chosen to be so. But he would have failed in the very thing he wanted, namely, to win the hearts of men and women. He came to win people, not to force them. Jesus would not use people for his own glorification. Don't you hate to be used by people? I don't want to be somebody's project or someone's case. I want to be treated like a person with dignity and worth. I want to be accepted for whom I am. I want to love God because he ...

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