GLORY: Not My Own
3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,[a] 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,[b] 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,[c] being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
PHILIPPIANS 2:3-11
22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
JOHN 17:22-23
Khabod: weightiness and worth
“All glory comes from God because God is the most meaning, weighty, important, majestic, and valuable person in the universe. God is glorious!”
GOD’S GLORY
Who is like You among the gods, O Lord? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, awesome in praises, working wonders?
EXODUS 15:11
Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.
1 CHRONICLES 29:11
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
PSALM 19:1
The Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad! Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. Fire goes before him and burns up his adversaries all around. His lightnings light up the world; the earth sees and trembles. The mountains melt like wax before the Lord, before the Lord of all the earth. The heavens proclaim his righteousness, and all the peoples see his glory.
PSALM 97:1-6
Glory doesn’t require recognition. God is glorified whether you honor him or not.
JON TYSON
GLORY DOESN’T REQUIRE PROOF
“Our culture encourages and rewards ambition without qualification. We are surrounded by a way of life in which betterment is understood as expansion, as acquisition, as fame. Everyone wants to get more. To be on top, no matter what it is the top of, is admired. There is nothing recent about this temptation. It is the oldest sin in the book, the one that got Adam thrown out of the garden and Lucifer tossed out of heaven.”
EUGUENE PETERSON
THREE GLORY TESTS (temptations)
3 And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”
MATTHEW 4:3
2. GLORY COMES FROM WHAT I HAVE (possessions)
8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. 9 And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”
MATTHEW 4:8-9
3. GLORY COMES FROM WHAT OTHERS THINK (popularity)
5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple 6 and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written,
“‘He will command his angels concerning you,’
and
“‘On their hands they will bear you up,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”
MATTHEW 4:5-6
“I suddenly realized that for the entire ten-minute period from when I had first seen my acquaintance until that very moment, I had been totally self-preoccupied. For the first two minutes before we met all I was thinking about was the clever things I might say that would impress him. During our five minutes together I was listening to what he had to say only so that I might turn it into a clever rejoinder. I watch him only so that I might see what effect my remarks were having upon him. And for the two or three minutes after we separated my sole thought content was those things I could have said that might have impressed him even more. I had not cared a whit for my classmate…”
M. SCOTT PECK
“Almost all problems in the spiritual life stem from a lack of self-knowledge.”
ST. TERESA OF AVILA
“True freedom comes when we no longer need to be somebody special in other people’s eyes because we know we are lovable and good enough.”
PETER SCAZERRO
22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
JOHN 17:22-23
GLORY LOOKS LIKE CONFIDENT HUMILITY
“Having realized the dangers of pride, the sin of thinking too much of ourselves, we are suddenly in danger of another mistake, thinking too little of ourselves. There are some who conclude that since the great Christian temptation is to try to be everything, the perfect Christian solution is to be nothing.”
EUGUENE PETERSON
