7. JOURNEY IN GLORY ROMANS 3:23 WE HAVE ALL FAILED AND SO ALWAYS MISS OUT ON THE GLORY OF GOD ROMANS 5:2 BUT NOW IN A HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD WE LIVE IN HOPE [CONFIDENT EXPECTATION] OF THE GLORY OF GOD ROMANS 8:30 BELIEVERS ARE CALLED, FREED AND GLORIFIED 2 CORINTHIANS 3:18 BELIEVERS ARE BEING CHANGED FROM GLORY TO GLORY

8. GLORY?

9. WHAT IS GLORY? VISIBLE MANIFESTATION, OUTWARD EXPRESSION OF A PERSON’S ABILITY THAT HAS A ‘WOW’ EFFECT ON AN AUDIENCE GLORY OF GOD = THE MANIFESTATION OF THE PRESENCE AND POWER OF GOD THROUGH SOME PHYSICAL MEDIUM

10. GLORY OF THE MEDIUM JOHN 17:1 FATHER, GLORIFY THE SON SO THAT THE SON MAY GLORIFY YOU. JOHN 1:14 WE SAW HIS GLORY, GLORY AS OF A UNIQUE SON FROM A FATHER JOHN 2:11 JESUS MANIFESTED HIS GLORY JOHN 17:22 THE GLORY YOU HAVE GIVEN ME I HAVE GIVEN THEM

11. WHICH COMES FIRST? WE [JESUS AND US] GLORIFY GOD? GOD GLORIFIES JESUS [AND US]? JOHN 14:10,20 “I AM IN THE FATHER AND THE FATHER IS IN ME” “YOU ARE IN ME AND I AM IN YOU” WE MUST BE GLORIFIED BEFORE WE CAN GLORIFY BLESSED BEFORE WE CAN BECOME A BLESSING

12. THE FATHER GLORIFIED THE SON ANSWERED THE SON’S PRAYER EPHESIANS 1:21-22a, PHILIPPIANS 2:9-11 PUT HIM IN CHARGE OF THE UNIVERSE EPHESIANS 1:22b-23 MADE HIM THE SOURCE OF ALL THAT THE CHURCH NEEDS HEBREWS 5:5-6 9-10 MADE HIM HIGH PRIEST, THE SOURCE OF ETERNAL SALVATION REVELATION 5:1-5 PUT THE UNFOLDING OF THE FUTURE INTO HIS HANDS

13. GLORIFIED/BLESSED = EMPOWERED JESUS - ANOINTED WITH THE SPIRIT AND ACKNOWLEDGED MATTHEW 3:16-17 WE – BAPTISED INTO CHRIST AND FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT EPHESIANS 1:3-14 BLESSED – IN CHRIST, SONS, MADE HIS INHERITANCE, SEALED WITH THE SPIRIT IN THIS WAY GLORIFIED

14. GLORY OF ACHIEVEMENT WE ARE GLORIFIED BEFORE ACHIEVEMENT GOD IS GLORIFIED BY ACHIEVEMENT JOHN 15:1-8 THE ABIDING BRANCHES GLORIFY GOD BY MUCH FRUIT WE MUST BE BAPTISED INTO THE VINE BEFORE WE CAN BE FRUITFUL THE OBEDIENT GLORIFY GOD, BUT THEY MUST FIRST BE BLESSED/GLORIFIED.

15. WHAT IS THE CHRISTIAN’S GLORY? THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT THE INDWELLING ENABLER WHO MANIFESTS HIMSELF THROUGH US BY MEANS OF HIS GIFTS HIS FRUIT

16. THE GLORY OF THE BODY JOHN 17 – A PRAYER FOR US, NOT JUST FOR ME A PRAYER THAT WE MIGHT BE ONE, THAT WE WOULD BE AVAILABLE, THAT WE MIGHT BE WITH HIM. ONE WITH THE TRINITY AVAILABLE WITH THE SON, JESUS KNOWING GOD TOGETHER

17. PROGRESSIVE GLORY 2 CORINTHIANS 3:18 WE REFLECTING THE GLORY OF THE LORD ARE BEING CHANGED INTO THE SAME IMAGE FROM GLORY TO GLORY WHICH IS THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT AS WE GROW IN THE LORD WE BECOME INCREASINGLY AVAILABLE AND USEFUL TO HIM

18. SEEKING GLORY ROMANS 2:6-7 NOT FOR MYSELF/OURSELVES SEEKING GLORY THAT MAKES US USEFUL TO GOD SEEKING GLORY THAT COMES FROM GOD SEEKING THE GLORY THAT CHRIST WISHES TO SHARE WITH US SEEKING THE GLORY BY WHICH WE CAN GLORIFY GOD