To God Be the Glory!

•Mt 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

•Mt 5:15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

•Mt 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Have you ever just sat down and thought about the word glory?

Do we really understand what this word means?•Glory = a high renown honor won by notable

achievements; magnificence; great beauty; very impressive; worship and thanksgiving offered to God (Oxford Univ. Dict.)

•The word “glory” is found 380 times in the Bible, “glorified” 48, “glorious” 43 and “glorify” 25 times, that is almost 500 times!

•With this word being used so much, we want to come to properly understand what it means and why we are to give God glory?

I. To God Be the Glory Because of His Person!

•First and foremost, we give God glory because of His person! There is no one else like God! His is the “Eternal One!” (Gen. 1:1)

•“In the beginning God” God is the beginning of all things, but God has no beginning!

•God is the only self existing one, God is not depended on us, but rather we are depended on God!

Because of His Person!

•God is not held by the boundaries of time!

•Ps 90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

•2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

There are three words often used to describe the person of God!

•Omniscient = God is “all” knowing, He doesn’t just know some things, He knows everything! (Eccl. 12:14; Heb. 4:13)

•Omnipotent = God is “all” powerful, there is no one greater in power than God! (Rev. 19:6)

•Omnipresent = God is “all” places, He is everywhere at all times! The phrase “I am with you” 22 times in the Bible! (Mt. 28:20)

•We should glory God because of His person!

II. To God Be the Glory Because of His Position!

•This point follows our last, because of the person of God we give Him glory, but also because of His position!

•Mt 28:18-20 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Jesus has “all” authority!He is in charge!!!

•Joh 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

•Col 3:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Because of His Position!

•The Apostles understood this!•Acts 4:19 But Peter and John

answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.

•Acts 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

One day we will all answer to God!Every knee will bow and everyone will answer! (Is.

45:23; Rom. 14:11; Phil. 2:10; 2 Cor. 5:10)•Even those in “high positions” are greatly

inferior to God!•All power and authority belongs to God!

(Rom 13:1-2)•God “rules” in the kingdoms of men!

(Dan. 4:24-25)•There is no one else like God, we give

God glory because of His position!

III. To God Be the Glory Because of His Pardon!

Truly God is good to us! A-men! •Jas 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift

is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

•Even knowing that we would sin, God still created us knowing what it would cost His Son to save us in the end! (Jn. 3:16)

•Pardon = the action of forgiving or being forgiven for an error or offence; the remission of legal consequences of an offence or conviction

God has done for us what we could never do alone!

2Co 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the

righteousness of God in him.•Jesus paid the price we owed so that we could be set

free and pardoned from sin!•Re 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful

witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

•1Jo 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

•We give God glory because of His pardon!

Conclusion:•Truly God is worthy of all glory! To God be the glory!•Have you come to know the person of God? Have

you come to know His position? Have you come to receive His pardon? Have you come to know the glory of God?

•If you are here and not yet a Christian, then today is the day to receive the glory of God in your life and then to share that glory with others!

•If you are a Christian have you been bringing God glory by the life you are living?

•Mt 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.