As the embodiment of the Triune God, Christ the Son is the Father’s glorification, and today it is by the church that Christ is glorified so that God the Father may be glorified through the Son. Wow, what a wonderful mystery and we are part of it! As we prayerfully consider the matter of glory […]
We are Called by God through the Gospel to Obtain the Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ
God has called us through His gospel unto the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ (see 2 Thes. 2:14). Paul didn’t say that through the gospel God wants to save us, deliver us from hell, and bring us to heaven; rather, just as through sin we come short of the glory of […]
the fulfillment of the Lord’s prayer concerning glorification in John 17
The Lord’s prayer in John 17 is the highest and the deepest prayer in the Bible, and it is also very mysterious. He prayed for the Father to glorify Him that He may glorify the Father, and then later He prayed a lot about oneness – the oneness of the Triune God to be enlarged […]
Jesus was glorified in His resurrection for the glorification of the Father
John 17 is the Lord’s prayer as the conclusion of His speaking in chapters 14 through 16. The basic concept, the central point, and the subject of the Lord’s prayer in John 17 is glorification – the Father would glorify the Son so that the Son would glorify the Father, and the believers would be […]
today God the Father is glorified in the Son and Christ the Son is glorified in the church
This morning I was encouraged by the Lord’s prayer in John 17:22-23, where He says, And the glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as We are one; I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world […]