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Where His Glory Dwells

“The place his glory dwells!”

Glory means greatness and pleasure.

I do not love a place where the glory of a great man dwells. Or where his marvelous family dwells.

Ministry that gets its source from God leaves us saying and thinking “wow what an amazing Lord Jesus we have.” Ministry that is religious logic or eloquent sounding tradition leaves us thinking “wow what a good sermon” or “man my pastor is great” or very often “man I wish I was like him/her”

But wherever the glory of God dwells is wherever Jesus is made supreme. His greatness and pleasure is evident by and within every one present.

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A New Type of God’s Glory – Suffering

The Three Types Of God’s Glory

The English word glory means to honor, but glory also means the weighty brightness of Gods presence. And thanks to scritpure it can be seen that glory also means the unlimited laying down of life in surrender to Gods life.

All three of these definitions of the word glory are summed up and put on display in Jesus Christ.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.

1 Peter 4:14

The glory of God is entirely different from the glory of man. When Jesus Christ said “the hour of my glory is here.” in the garden before his trial. It was not when he had the thousands of fans singing around him saying wonderful things. It happened right before a different time, it was before a time of suffering and difficulty, cruelty, betrayal and death.

Instead it went on display when he was setting out to be betrayed, abandoned and mercilessly killed. A new type of God’s glory could be seen (to those with spiritual eyes) when he was being hated by men. It was seen when he was dying in their place, being disfigured, bloodied, spit on, mocked, beaten, betrated, instulted, abandoned, stabbed, provoked and many other horrible things we probably will never fully understand.

The Glory of Man

The glory of man is to rule over others, and to have an empire of others to command. It is also to make our ways known and dominant (leadership vision). And it often involves having others enrich us financially.

But there is a new type of God’s glory in the earth that has been on display since Jesus Christ. He took this aspect of life into himself, for himself and about himself. Have you seen it? It was first seen many years ago but it is still on display now. And Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come for the son of Man to be glorified.” – John 12:23

The word glorified is the greek word doxazo, strongs G1391, to make glorious, to make renowned. Jesus then went on to describe this new glorification that he would encounter in verses 24-26. He defined it with terms like “death”, “whoseover loses his life in this world”, “not my will be done.” Jesus redefined and expanded the word glory here as far as we are concerned. He expanded glory into death, surrender, into unlimited laying down of human life in surrender to God’s life.

Another Type of God’s Glory – Suffering

A new type of God’s glory and greatness was is seen in the person of Jesus Christ, in the laying down of His life. We did not recognize it when we first saw it, in fact this new glory on display went unrecognized by almost everyone. It perplexed the natural man, to this day it is still looked down upon even still by many of his followers, for many it is foolishness.

But NOW we also know the glory of Jesus Christ in suffering? Can you see the glory of God in the laying down of life? Those ones we don’t like and have no patience for? The ones that cause us to quickly leave the room when they enter. Can we see him within the poor and needy?

God’s glory can be seen again…here and now. It is put on display when we lay down our lives for the purpose of Jesus Christ and those he identifies with on earth.

Can we begin to see God’s glory in suffering? In obscurity? Or in the laying down of human life?

more on the Glory of Jesus Christ

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What is the Glory of God?

‘Kabod’ and ‘Doxa’, both for Jesus Christ!

What is the glory of Jesus Christ? The word ‘glory’ has been confusing to me. There are at least two words translated glory related to Jesus Christ in scripture, that we should strive to understand. I think the English word ‘glory’ is over used in the Bible and by some Christians. This word is used interchangeably for at least three different concepts referring to Jesus Christ. Perhaps we need more words.

We can give glory to God.

Joshua 7:19 Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, I implore you, give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and give praise to him; and tell me now what you have done. Do not hide it from me.”

And we can see the glory of God.

Exodus 33:22 and it will come about, while my glory is passing by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by.

The term ‘giving glory to God’ uses the Hebrew word ‘kabod‘ essentially meaning ‘to honor’.

However “seeing the glory of God” as Moses did on mount Sinai and as Peter and John saw in the transfiguration of Jesus Christ is the Hebrew word ‘doxa‘. This word essentially mean heaviness, or weightiness, or the brightness of his presence.

But both words are used in reference to Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ gathers up these two words (as he does with all things) and summarizes them together into one.

The Glory of Jesus Christ will Increase Forever

“Give honor ‘kabod’ to Jesus Christ who is himself the bright radiance of Gods brightness and weightiness ‘doxa.'”

The Glory of Jesus Christ

Update: there is yet another type of God’s glory described and seen in Jesus Christ, read article here.

But giving kabod to Jesus Christ who is the doxa of God is not the whole story of this word glory. There is more…much more!!

We can see more about the glory of God in the story of the transfiguration of Jesus Christ found in Mark 9. When Jesus was transfigured the doxa of God shined upon him and a few things happened.

  1. His face and garments shown white and bright as depicted in the image above.
  2. A glorious presence and voice from the father affirmed Jesus Christ verbally “this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased, listen to him.” These wrods were spoken to Peter James and John by the heavenly father. There is a verbal prause and affimation and exaltation of Jesus Christ where there is the glory of God.
  3. God was well-pleased in this sitation, God’s satisfaction is synonmyous with glory. God’s contentment is found where his glory dwells. Like when at the end of each of the days of creation, and it was evening and morning the six days and he saw that it was good. When God is pleased and contented and say’s a thing is good, that is glory. When the Lord is pleased with our service we often sense that pleasure within and know that he sees it as good.

There is glory where the father is pleased and well contented. Remember Jesus taught us to pray “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Herein He was teaching us to increase the glory of God all over the earth. Where there is affimation and praise for Jesus Christ (kabod) and where Jesus Christ is on display as great, magnificent and the brightness of his greatness (doxa) is on display for all.

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