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1. The Glory of the New Covenant

2 Corinthians 3:7-17; 4:1-6

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... to Acts 13:47, Paul understood his commission in terms of Isaiah 49:6: “I have made you a light for the nations, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.” In our passage, the content of the light of the gospel is further described as the glory of Christ. When Paul met the resurrected Christ on the way to Damascus, God revealed his Son to Paul (Gal. 1:16). At that time, Paul saw Christ (cf. 1 Cor. 9:1), and this made Paul an eyewitness apostle (cf. 1 Cor. 15:1–11). In the previous context ...

2. Do You Have The Glory?

John 17:20-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... nobody knows who you are." (2) That's where most of us are. "It's pretty tough being famous when nobody knows who you are." Jesus didn't promise that everybody would know our name. He just promised us glory. Evidently, what Jesus called glory was not what the world calls glory. And, maybe that's just as well. Jib Fowles, a college professor and author, did a study of 100 stars from all fields Hollywood entertainers, sports stars, musicians. He discovered that celebrities are almost four times more likely to ...

3. Revealed Glory

Exodus 16:1-36

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... completing a 40-day fast, that man must not live by bread alone, is not relevant in this instance. It is, however, true from a spiritual perspective that we survive off the Word of God, but the situation of the text is centered around the glory of God; and that the glory of God was made manifest, in part, in the reality of food. The Israelites needed to see food that was indeed eatable. Not a mirage, but real food. God gave them food to eat. Nutritionists would raise the issue of a balanced diet. A balanced ...

4. The Spirit and the Glory of the Age to Come and the New Covenant

Romans 8:28-39, Romans 8:18-27

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... purpose” (8:28). In context, the “all things” are the afflictions that God uses (8:17–25) to conform believers to the image and glory of Christ (8:29).2 2. Romans 8:22, at first glance, is enigmatic: “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as ... hope sustains the believer in the meantime (8:24–25). So the groaning is both negative (suffering in this age) and positive (glory in the age to come).5 Two more comments can be made about the believer’s glorious body, both connected to the ...

5. The Glory Departs

Ezekiel 8:1-18, Ezekiel 9:1-11, Ezekiel 10:1-22, Ezekiel 11:1-15, Ezekiel 11:16-25

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... into two parts, and the statement I looked introduces both (vv. 1, 9; Block, Ezekiel 1–24, p. 314). The first section, verses 1–8, focuses on the scribe angel from Ezekiel 9. The second, verses 9–22, expands upon the prophet’s first vision of the Lord’s Glory in 1:4–28, although we do find references back to that text in both parts of the chapter. This second part of chapter 10 repeats descriptive sections of the first vision nearly word for word (e.g., compare 10:9–12 with 1:15–18), and the ...

6. To God Be The Glory!

Isaiah 60:1-6

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... fountain bubbling up in the heart; secret spring the world can't see and doesn't know anything about.[4] * Through our attitude of assurance — we have a confidence that endures because it is in God. Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God, born of his Spirit, washed in his blood. This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long. This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long.[5] * Through an ...

7. God's Glory Manifest

Exodus 24:1-18

Sermon

... elders on the mountain. Our text of today then narrates God's call for Moses to come up the mountain to receive God's instructions for the people. The cloud covers the mountain and the voice of God speaks from the cloud into which Moses enters. The glory of the Lord still terrified the people, but Moses is in the presence of the Holy God. However, this light of God's complete otherness has now been revealed to Israel as mercy and gracious condescension because of God's declaring the Holy One to be Israel ...

8. A Glimpse of Glory

Revelation 21:10-22 - 22:5

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... Republic.") That day when water was poured over you and a few words were uttered, "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit," a saint was made. Your name was written in the "book of life" forever. You were given a glimpse of glory. In a few moments you will come forward to eat and drink at the Lord's table. You will eat bread and drink wine. But even more you will meet Jesus, God's right-hand man, sitting at the right hand of the Father in heaven. The words of that ...

9. Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory!

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... Saints' Sunday? Because on this All Saints' Sunday our thoughts turn to heaven and the eternal destiny promised to us in our baptism. We may not be about to march into battle but we surely are engaged in a kind of holy war. We are searching for a vision of glory that will inspire us to keep living and striving in a world in which our future is far from certain. Our talk about heaven is essential to the church's ability to talk of a future filled with hope. Without the hope of heaven can there be any hope ...

10. Finding Glory

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... : there is power in encouragement. Whether it's with puppies or people, you can make a very important, positive impact in their lives through encouragement. (1) Where do you find encouragement? For St. Paul, encouragement was found at the foot of the cross. "Far be it from me to glory, he says in Galatians 6:14, "except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ." Here was where St. Paul found the strength he needed to be what God called him to be ” at the cross. Let me ask you a question. Where do you find ...

11. Angels and Shepherds: Heaven Came Down and Glory Filled My Soul

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to seek the one that is lost. And we still see on the Cross, and celebrate in Holy Communion, the Pascal Lamb, who has been given by God as a sacrifice for our sins and the sins of the whole world. All that has meaning. The shining glory of God is not restricted to particular people. It did come to the shepherds and it came when they were doing their duty, as they were being faithful in the responsibility life had given them. Doesn’t that say something to us? Mechanic, doctor, housewife, teacher, nurse ...

12. Changed From Glory Into Glory

Romans 8:1-17

Eulogy

Barbara G. Schmitz

... transformed into the likeness of the mask. The Christian life, from baptism to death, is a journey of being changed, transformed, into the likeness of Jesus Christ. Charles Wesley, the great hymnwriter of the eighteenth century, put it this way: Changed from glory into glory, till in heaven we take our place, till we cast our crowns before Thee, lost in wonder, love and praise. ("Love Divine, All Loves Excelling," The Hymnal 1982, 657) What does it mean to undergo this transformation, to be changed from ...

13. The Glory and the Cross

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... Jesus was telling them again that he, "... will be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he will rise" (Mark 9:31). Jesus Christ, God’s Son, was sent into our world from the world of God’s glory to carry out a mission. His mission was confirmed in this transfiguration story. "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him." That is what God said to Jesus. It is from the words of Jesus that we get a sense of the nature of his mission. Jesus will suffer in ...

14. A Strange Kind Of Glory

John 13:31-38

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... new look at it. The setting is the upper room just prior to Jesus' arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane. Judas has just left to make preparations for his betrayal of Christ. Our Lord then turns to the disciples and says, "Now the Son of Man's glory is revealed; now God's glory is revealed through him and he will do it at once," and from there he goes out to be arrested like a common felon, to be publicly flogged and ridiculed, and finally to be subjected to utter humiliation, as they hang him stark naked on a ...

15. “Ascribe to the Lord the Glory Due His Name”

Psalm 29:1-11

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... law. Psalm 19 attests the divine word in the routine of nature and in the words of the law in a complementary way. Psalm 29 offers a similar comparison, first the divine word in the tumultuous storm of 29:3–9a, and then the brief but climactic shout of “Glory!” by all in the temple in 29:9b. The two expressions of God’s word are complementary, as they are also in Psalm 19. But in effect, the content of God’s voice in the powerful storm is divulged in the descriptive language of the psalm. God is ...

16. A Glory Revealed in the King

John 12:12-19

Sermon

Charles M. Mountain

... , he would reconcile us to the Father. He came not to be merely a local hero and ethnic warrior of the Jewish nation, but to destroy the power and authority of the false ruler of the entire world with all his lies and ways of death. This is the strange glory of King Jesus, whose kingship "is not of this world." He came to give himself over to death so that you and I may have life abundantly. When Jesus was glorified (that is, when he died), it was not the end - it was really the beginning. His Kingship will ...

17. The One in Whom We Glory

John 12:12-19

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . At first she would be quiet, but as the joy of the Lord swelled within, she would begin to let it out. She always carried a white handkerchief. She would wave it over her head. Then she would say, “Glory, glory, glory, glory to God in the highest." My grandmother had something modern Methodists could use. She had the glory of the Lord down in her heart. Nothing about it was contrived. Nothing about it was for show. Joy is a lot like laughter. If you have to think about it too much, it's not genuine. The ...

18. Jesus’s Glory and Majesty Disclosed

Mark 9:2-13

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... also the pure white clothing of the Ancient of Days in Daniel 7:9 is echoed. As Craig Evans points out, Jesus as the Son of Man (8:38) “has taken on some of God’s characteristics (much as Moses’s face began to shine with God’s glory).”3 9:4 Elijah and Moses. These were the two eschatological prophets, the two messianic forerunners (Deut. 18:15; Mal. 4:5–6) as well as representatives of the law and the prophets, and it is natural that they would appear with Jesus. Now the significance of his ...

19. Veiled Glimpses of God's Glory

Exodus 33:12-23

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... not be seen." It probably wasn't the answer Moses wanted to hear. And for that matter, we might be a little disappointed with it as well -- especially in those times when we need to see the Almighty most. But I think it's a mistake to regard the veiled glory of God as somehow representing One who is hiding from us. In fact, if you ask me, the most significant lesson Moses learns here at the foot of Mount Sinai is that Yahweh actually desires to walk in our midst -- only on God's terms, not ours; and in a ...

20. God's Glory

2 Corinthians 3:18, 2 Corinthians 4:4b

Children's Sermon

... see something beautiful they say, "Ah!" or "Oh!" Maybe that's how hearing stories of Jesus is supposed to make us feel. Maybe that's what the word "glory" means in these verses. Glory can also mean something very bright like this flashlight would be if it were very dark out. It would be a bright shining light. So this flashlight reminds me of glory, too. What happens when you leave a flashlight on and you fall asleep? (Let them respond.) The batteries run out and the flashlight goes off. (Turn out the ...

21. Future Glory

Romans 8:18-27

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... something given by God in pledge of a full gift to come, similar to the guarantee of the Spirit in 2 Corinthians 1:22 and 5:5. The Spirit is God’s firstfruits or pledge, the ground of hope for living in the tension between suffering and glory. The theme of hope continues in the memorable phraseology of verses 24–25. The opening phrase, For in this hope we were saved, is vexingly ambiguous. In Greek, hope is thrust to the beginning of the sentence and is therefore emphatic. It is unlikely that Paul means ...

22. A Glory Revealed in the Cross

John 8:12-30

Sermon

... despair, and other great and shameful sins." With all this in mind we will turn to the Theology of the Cross as John proclaimed it in his Gospel. In John’s Gospel especially we see God hidden in the humanity of our Lord Jesus, a God whose glory is revealed through the cross and suffering. Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that ‘I Am.’ " "Lifted up?" Strange, enigmatic words that occur elsewhere in John’s Gospel. Jesus told Nicodemus that "just as Moses lifted up ...

23. The Lord's Prayer: The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... scribe came by his prayer honestly. But, honestly or not, if Jesus' did not teach "for Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory," why preach on the phrase? Why? We need to hear it. This is one more way to affirm that of which the scribe of old and ... be done! We cannot say how or when, but the promises of God stand sure.(8) "For Thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory." This is an affirmation of confident faith in the face of all that is wrong out there. It is more than a mere doxology - it is ...

24. Glory Guaranteed

Jude 1:24-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... of the tomb of physical death, He is able to keep His saints from falling into the pit of eternal death. II. God's Marvelous Purpose Not only is God able to keep us from stumbling, but He is also going to "present us faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy." (v.24) God's power is for your protection, but God's purpose is for your perfection. Now the phrase "in the presence of" literally means "before the face of." The Bible says that no man has seen God at any time, but one day all of ...

25. The God of Grace and Glory

Psalm 84:11

Sermon

James Merritt

... verse at the end of my signature. Listen to it: "For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold from Those who walk uprightly." (v.11) In just that short verse of Scripture, we are told enough about ... , Christ died for us." That is, the cross was God's grace in action; Jesus dying for the undeserving. The heavens declare the glory of God, but the cross reveals the grace of God. This grace is indeed amazing grace. First of all, it is saving grace. " ...

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