The Lord of Glory

The Lord of Glory - Meditations on the person, the work and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ

OUR ever blessed Lord, who died for us, to whom we belong, with whom we shall be forever, is the Lord of Glory. Thus He is called in 1 Cor. ii:8, for had they known they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. Eternally He is this because He is the express image of God, the brightness of His Glory (Heb. i:3). He possessed Glory with the Father before the world was (John xvii:5). This Glory was beheld by the prophets, for we read that Isaiah saw His Glory and spake of Him (John xii:41). All the glorious manifestations of Jehovah recorded in the Word of God are the manifestations of the Lord of Glory, who created all things that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, who is before all things and by whom all things consist. He appeared as the God of Glory to Abraham (Acts vii:1); Isaac and Jacob were face to face with Him. Moses beheld His Glory. He saw His Glory on the mountain. The Lord of Glory descended in the cloud and stood with him there (Exod. xxxiv:5). How often the Glory of the Lord appeared in the midst of Israel. And what more could we say of Joshua, David, Daniel, Ezekiel, who all beheld His Glory and stood in the presence of that Lord of Glory. In the fulness of time He appeared on earth God manifested in the flesh. Though He made of Himself no reputation and left His unspeakable Glory behind, yet He was the Lord of Glory, and as such He manifested His Glory. In incarnation in His holy, spotless life He revealed His moral Glory; what perfection and loveliness we find here! We have the testimony of His own We beheld His Glory, the Glory as of the only begotten of the Father (John i:14). They saw His Glory (Luke ix:32) when they were with Him in the holy mountain. They heard, they saw with their eyes, they looked upon, their hands handled the Word of life, the life that was manifested (1 John i:1-2). In His mighty miracles the Lord of Glory manifested His Glory, for it is written this beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee and manifested forth His Glory (John i:11). And this Lord of Glory died. The focus of His Glory is the cross. He was obedient unto death, the death of the cross. He gave Himself for us. Without following here all the precious truths connected with that which is the foundation of our salvation and our hope, that the Lord of Glory, Christ died for our sins, we remember that God raised Him up from the dead and gave Him Glory (1 Pet. i:21). He was received up into Glory (1 Tim. iii:16). Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His Glory (Luke xxiv:26). The risen Lord of Glory said: I ascend unto my Father and your Father; to my God and your God. He is now in the presence of God, the Man in Glory, seated in the highest place of the heaven of heavens at the right hand of the Majesty on high. He is there far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come (Eph. i:21). He is highly exalted, the heir of all things. In that Glory He was beheld by human, mortal eyes. Stephen being full of the Holy Spirit looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the Glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God (Acts vii:55). This was the dying testimony of the first Christian martyr. Saul of Tarsus saw this Glory; he could not see for the Glory of that light (Acts xxii:11). John beheld Him and fell at His feet as dead. And we see Him with the eye of faith. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death crowned with Glory and Honor (Heb. ii:9). ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 29557
Author: Gaebelein, Arno Clemens
Release Date: Jul 31, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English