So many compromise the gospel and make it a bloodless religion. They try to replace His blood with their sweat and glorify their deeds and diminish His finished work. My reader, He will be glorified. Either by His mercy and grace or in His justice. There will be a day that every knee will bow. I pray that we seek not our glory or the glory of men but seek ye first and only the glory of God. May He strip away any ignorance we have and say and press in our hearts that which is truth. May He bless this for His glory.
Extra Credit: I recently came across this from John Bunyan on the duties of parents to their children. It is in two parts and I pray it bless you as it blessed me. (PART I), (PART II).
Jhn 13:31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
Jhn 13:32 If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
- How was Christ glorified by this act of betrayal?
I have heard it said that all scripture points to the cross. It is hear that His Son is glorified and God is glorified in Him. When we view the power of God it must come back to the cross where He is glorified. It is He that went willing to this hour of redemption of His people. No man had the power to take Him before His time. He and He alone at the cross had the power to overcome death and sin. When we view the justice of God it must come back to the cross where He is glorified. He will by no means clear the guilty, sin must be punished, and it was in His justice that He was glorified. It was His justice that Christ became literal sin and hung guilty and cursed. It was His holy law that was enforced and justice that was served and in that His awesome mercy and grace revealed. When we view the holiness of God it must come back to the cross where He is glorified. It was on the Cross that an innocent perfect man bore our iniquities. It was the stains of our imputed sin that the Father must turn away from His son unable to view the evil upon Him. It was the washing of those stains from us and our imputed righteousness that He may view us holy now. It is at the cross that He paid the price and rose again in all holiness and sinless perfection and ascended to heaven as our intercession. When we view the faithfulness of God it must come back to the cross where He is glorified. It was to the cross that He went willing to His slaughter. He who knew no sin, with love, mercy, and faithfulness was willing to be made a curse of the transgressions of His elect. When we view the love and charity of God it must come back to the cross where He is glorified. I shall state no other words here than God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. Oh pray to grasp and comprehend the levity and depth of those words. When we view the grace of God it must come back to the cross where He is glorified. It was on the cross and in that act that the Father gave the gift of His Son and our redemption. When Christ gave up His life for His elect that they, without merit, may have eternal life we view the grace and glory on that cross. May we look continuously back to the cross and to His glory. (Rom 3:26)
