 This morning we are looking at the title of the lesson is Building a Theology of the Glory of God. And for starters, this is a very, for lack of a better word, challenging, daunting task. We're talking about systematically arriving at a doctrine of the glory of God. And the glory of God, as you've seen over the last several weeks through the Bible, is multifaceted and is used in many different ways and contexts and has a depth and complexity to it that makes it, in a sense, impossible to truly systematize. I read an author and he was saying it's like wading out into the ocean and trying to, with just where you are, understand the ocean and say you know how deep it is and how far it is and how much volume it is and what its chemical makeup is. However, it is good that we labor to come up with systematics as long as we stick to the Word of God. So if you would grab your hand out, I wanted to just review it briefly with you and then we'll go into the first point. It's building a theology of God because it's an ongoing process. You know, that's a, when you say building, running, anything with ING on the end, it gives that sense of continuing. So this is something that we ought to be continuing. We're aiming towards a theology. We're not saying we have arrived at a systematic theology of the glory of God because of how vast it is. And the primary question we're asking if you look on your handout is how do we build a systematic theology of the glory of God? Right now we're transitioning in our Glory of God series from biblical theology to systematic theology. And I want to show you a pyramid I want to draw on the board in a minute. But just, let's go through just the main point so you know where we're headed with this lesson. And it's going to be three parts. So I'll be here the next two weeks as well continuing on this. But first let's review the biblical theology that we've been through to get our mind back into those areas that we've covered so that we can kind of look at the landscape as a whole. And then from there let's work towards developing a summary definition of the multiple biblical meanings of God's glory. So we want to labor insofar as we can see from Scripture we're able to compile all the meanings and senses and definitions we've gained of the glory of God. And then try to summarize it. So that's what the second point will be attempting to do. And the third point is understanding this will be future lesson probably next week. Understanding how God's glory relates to God himself. So once you get a statement and a definition that is laboring to get a summary of all these different meanings. Now we have to understand what this is communicating to us about God himself. Is it one attribute? Is it all of his attributes? Is it his presence? Is it his shining radiant light upon others? What is the glory of God and how does it relate to him? So that's where a lot of systematic theology is done in that category when you're trying to relate things to one another. And also previous with the definition. And then the fourth point we're going to be considering expressions of God's glory and important truths. So we've seen the God's glory displayed like at the tabernacle or the temple or at Mount Sinai with Moses or the burning bush. And then on into the New Testament with Jesus Christ and the signs and his birth and his transfiguration, his second coming which is prophesied, his death and resurrection and then on into the epistles. But when we say considering expressions of God's glory and important truths, we're considering God's glory and how it relates to or informs other theology. We say that God is transcendent and God is imminent. How does God's glory accomplishing both of those simultaneously? How is it relating to those? How is God self-sufficient and full and yet receives glory? How is it that God is unique and alone God and he will give his glory to another and yet he shares his glory with creatures? And then looking at how God is particular in the way he reveals his glory in creation and in redemptive history with a certain people and yet he's also simultaneously universal in certain ways. So when we're considering the expressions of God's glory and his important truths, that's what we're going to be looking at and that's also coming. And then the confession part is just a reminder of the doctrine of God, a couple important paragraphs on the doctrine of God and then of the last judgment because even if you read there 32-2, God's purpose for appointing this day, that's the day of judgment, is to manifest the glory of his mercy and eternal salvation and of his justice. God reveals his glory and his glory being the goal of all things and that confession paragraph was given to help us remind us of that too because we're trying to get a big picture so we're looking at the doctrine of God kind of at the beginning and the foundation of everything but we're also looking at the consummation of things and the outworking of his glory. And then there's some questions related to today's lessons. I'll update more information on this handout and send it out again with different or updated questions. And there's some memory verses there and a primary text, Exodus 34, 6, and 7. It's bringing together multiple things about the glory of God. That's why it is a primary text and then the catechism questions is to help remind us of things related to the doctrine of God and our relation to him as image bearers. Okay, any questions thus far? I know that I'm just briefly mentioning the handout and what we're attempting to begin now. All right, I wanted to show you this pyramid real quick. I don't know if you've ever seen this, but this is the theological pyramid so to speak. It's a helpful diagram when you're thinking about building a theology from the Bible on whatever the Bible is revealing. And what you start with is the proper canon. Can you imagine trying to build what we ought to believe and what we ought to do from the wrong source, like including the apocrypha? How now we've cut out or undercut all this other work because we began with the wrong foundation. So you begin with the canon and then the hermeneutics proper. It has a general term and just means the science and art of interpretation, but proper or narrow definition of it is the study of the principles of interpretation. It's kind of like the rules of the game. Somebody can tell you the rules of chess that doesn't make you a good chess player, but you at least you know the principles that you're supposed to play with. That's what this is, the right principles for interpreting scripture. Thank you. So we get that from the Bible because the Bible interprets itself. And then you do exegesis. So when you have the right principles of interpretation, you go to specific text or specific groups of texts and you do a grammatical historical interpretation of that in its original context with its original audience and author, as well as a theological interpretation because God is not, is also the author of it. So God is revealing something of himself in his Bible and we need to consider the theology that he's revealing even in our exegesis. Biblical theology though is looking at the work of our exegesis across the canon. So as you work through a book of the Bible and then you progress and Revelation's progressive, right? Well, you work from Genesis. Let's say we're studying justification by faith. Well, Genesis reveals things about justification by faith. So we go do exegesis and Genesis on all those texts that might deal with that. But that is going to progressively grow and develop in the canon. So as we walk and walk down the canon into future Revelation, we're going to find out what it meant here and what it meant here in Romans and what it meant here. Now we have kind of walked the path of the Bible in a biblical fashion and once we've got that, then we labor to take a step back and look at all of the work that has been done in our theology with working through it exegesis step by step through the Bible along with the story of the Bible, redemptive history. And now we want to systematize it. And that means like, topically, what does the Bible reveal as a whole in its various aspects and perspectives on this doctrine looking at all this biblical theology we've done? And can we make summary statements about the theology on that matter that we can say the whole Bible teaches this? And then once you know your systematics on a theology, you practice it. And I know that that can seem like daunting, but this is the proper way. And of course, we practice right after we're born again. It's not like we had to go get everything to know how to practice because the Spirit illuminates us, but we do need to constantly have our practical theology built on good interpretation. And this is a pyramid to help remind of priority. And why I brought that up is this is where we are. So where we've been in the lessons is really right here. We've been in this region when Noel and Pastor Michael and Jerome and everybody's been teaching. They've been teaching you biblical theology. If you think about it, we went through the Old Testament. We went through the Synoptic Gospels. We went through Acts and then Paul. And of course, the brothers were having to do exegesis at home and they probably were sharing some of the exegesis in the middle of their biblical theology. And then their exegesis is built on their hermeneutics. But what you're getting taught was the biblical theology. Now we have transitioned into this. Any questions about that? Is that helpful? Okay, that's good news. So let's go to the review and I try to consider how much time this could take and should take. I'm really planning on just jet flyby for time's sake because you have those handouts, you have those lessons recorded. And I know not everybody here has been through every lesson and has got to participate in them all, but this class is not to repeat that. It's just to remind you and review. So let's just look at each one of these in a couple of minutes. And the glory of God in the Old Testament, if you remember, the vocabulary was K-Bod, K-Bod. And it meant heaviness or weightiness. It was a common Hebrew word used and got translated into the word glory. And we see God's glory revealed in various ways in the Old Testament. We see it with Moses at Mount Sinai. We see it in the Tabernacle where the Shekinah glory. We see it in the children of Israel being delivered from Egypt. We see it with the Ark and that's back to the Tabernacle where the God is seated on the mercy seat. And what is a predominant theme in the Old Testament was God's present with his people. So anybody wants to add there that they remember about that? In the synoptics, we moved and focused in on Jesus Christ. And God's glory was revealed in Greek in the word doxa, which really largely took on the meaning of the K-Bod because in the Septuagint, which was the Greek translation of the Old Testament, they would use the word doxa in place of the Hebrew K-Bod, or K-Bod. And even though doxa had its meaning among Greek users, because the authors that translated the Hebrew into Greek are translating the K-Bod into doxa, that doxa took on a biblical sense. So it does carry with it that heaviness and that weightiness that the K-Bod originally meant. But it has a variety of meanings. It can mean the condition of being bright, a state of being magnificent, or greatness, which is kind of like K-Bod honor. You can be honoring somebody, giving them glory. And it can be a reference to a transcendent being deserving of honor. God. You had just asked, can you remember anything from the Old Testament? And I had to think about it for a second, but something that has stuck out, and I don't know if you want to speak to it, or maybe just an affirmation, if you have seen the same thing. As you're now talking about the synoptic Gospels and the Lord Jesus Christ and Him being the radiance of the glory of God, in the Old Testament, Noelle was showing us how glory was associated with the voice of the Lord, or the word of the Lord. The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars. And it's interesting that the Son, God the Son, Jesus Christ, He's also referred to as the word. The word became flesh and dwelt among us. And then through Paul and through the other New Testament epistles, the message of the gospel is the message of the glory of God in the face of Jesus. So it's a glorious message. Jesus Christ is the word who is the glory and radiance of the Father. And in the Old Testament, His word or His voice, His speech is associated with power and glory. So it's just talking about biblical theology and a biblical theology of the glory of God and how the Bible's teaching on glory expands and progresses. It's just really interesting to see those connections between glory and the voice, message, word of the Lord. Thank you. I'm glad that you answered. And anybody else that wants to share more too, that's why I asked and amen. Yeah, we can see that Jesus is the fulfillment of many things and is the word of God. Anybody else that think of anything they want to add with the Old Testament? All right. The next was the New Testament with the synoptics. And there's that word, doxa, that we were looking at in its various uses. We saw it in the birth of Christ. So if you'll remember that God's glory was revealed at the birth of Christ, that the shepherds were greatly afraid when they came into a manifestation of God's glory. And it says that God's glory is shown around them. We remember that the angel of the Lord and the heavenly host said that they were bringing good news or good tidings. And they said glory to God in the highest. So there's this revelation of God's glory in the Messiah coming and it being good news for men, which we know is the Gospel. And Simeon described Christ and the salvation that comes by him as a light into the Gentiles and the glory of Israel. And then we see the incarnation itself as a whole, how God reveals his glory by condescending and humbling himself, becoming a man. God, a very God, one person in two distinct natures. And that is a marvel. And we can see and remember as the Old Testament prophesied that the Lord would come and send his chosen one, here we see it is the Son of God. And then we see God's glory revealed in the Transfiguration, where Jesus' clothes and appearance changed before Peter, James, and John. And then we see Moses and Elijah, who also appear in a form of glory. And then we hear the Father speaking from the cloud, the glorious cloud. And he said, this is my son. And we were reminded that all these Transfiguration events or all this going on at the Transfiguration is to point towards him being the hope of the believer, him being who we need to trust, hear him. And then also God's glory is going to be revealed in the second coming of Christ. He says that he's going to come in the glory of his Father, and he's going to sit on the throne of his glory, and his works will reveal the glory of God. And John, we saw that God's glory was revealed in the person of Jesus Christ. So we took a look there with all the emphasis in John on who is this chosen one. When we say he is the Son of God, what do we mean? God's glory is revealed in Jesus Christ, and he is the express image of his person because he is the eternally begotten Son of God. And we see that the glory of God is Trinitarian, and that God the Father glorifies the Son, the Son the Father, the Father the Spirit, the Spirit the Father, the Spirit the Son. So we need to remember as we were looking at our Biblical theology that the glory of God is Trinitarian. And then also God's glory was revealed to us in all these signs that John lined up. He turned water into wine. He healed the nobleman's son. He heals the lame man at the pole, and he feeds 5,000. He walks on water, heals the blind man from birth, raises Lazarus from the dead. And the purpose of these signs was that those who hear might believe. So you can see God who is this God. He is the God who performs miracles, supernatural works through his Son that you sinners, us sinners, might be saved, and that in and of itself is the glory of God. He's the initiator, the savior, the sovereign. He's the only good one. And Acts, we saw the same verbs or that same word in its different forms. Dachsa, or Dachsazo, glory and glorify. Stephen mentioning the God of glory. And then Dachsazo, Jesus glorified by God in the healing of the lame beggar. The people glorify God for the lame beggar being healed. So we can see that God's glory being manifest in healing somebody actually causes people to glorify him. So when we're putting our systematics together, we need to consider in what way should we include this reciprocation. God's glory is revealed in the Holy Spirit's powerful witness of Christ. God's glory is in the Holy Spirit's worldwide witness. So we see this powerful witness, but we also see the scope going worldwide. God's glory is jealously guarded. So Ananias and Sapphira seek their own glory and are struck dead. Herod refuses to give God the glory. And he's, what was it, eaten by worms? That was Acts. And we saw an Acts too with the Holy Spirit that Jesus has ascended. And he sent the Spirit and through the apostles, the glory of God is manifest in them through the works of the apostles and the preaching of all the disciples. In Paul's epistles, we were reminded of the Old Testament roots of Paul's understanding of glory. And we saw that Paul had this unique or extraordinary experience of his own salvation when he encountered with Jesus and the glory of God. And that actually had a, remember Pastor Michael teaching on this, a large impact in his communication of the gospel. And Paul is a minister and preacher of the gospel. So the glory of God is revealed in the gospel. So we need to remember that, as we were looking at Paul's epistles, that the focus was on the gospel of Jesus Christ. That the gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ as the wisdom of God, the glory of Christ, it's rich with glory and it's central to Paul's theology. In that gospel, Paul would remind of those two states of Christ, his humiliation and his exaltation. If you will remember that. His humiliation was his time of being in the likeness of sinful flesh and humbling himself and suffering even to the point of death. And his exaltation beginning at his resurrection was him coming forth out of the grave with the first fruits of a glorified body, which is our forerunner. He is the first fruits of our own resurrection. And we see that particularly Jesus Christ is the glory image of God. So we need to behold him as we consider the glory of God in Paul and then knowing how Paul is looking back over the Old Testament, seeing Christ come and him soon to come again. Paul is already doing a lot of systematics for us by telling us that it centers on the gospel and that Jesus Christ particularly is who we need to look at to see the glory of God in his image. And also we know that God's glory will conform us into that image of Christ. So as he is the express image of God, God through him is bringing us into conformity to that same image. And then in the general epistles we saw that with James God's glory is in a living and working faith. So we remember that Jesus is the Lord of glory and I remember James warning against false faith. God is glorified in us and by us and will accomplish his work through us by a working faith. And we must remember that our Lord is impartial. And Peter is God's glory is revealed in joyful suffering and submission and service. See now we're getting into the church. So as we're looking at these different aspects of God's glory in our biblical theology, we can see how it's got this pattern of redemptive history of promise and typology with Israel and pointing forward to a presence of God dwelling with his people and the voice of God. And then here comes the New Testament and everything that God prophesied about the Messiah comes to pass. And now we're seeing the church. God's glory revealed through the church particularly in joyful suffering, submission and service. And God's glory is going to be revealed above his rivals, above false teachers. It overcomes and in Jude we must contend earnestly for the faith. So going on in Hebrews, I'm just reminding of these things. We saw in Hebrews a focus on Jesus Christ's priesthood. And particularly God has spoken through his son. He is the radiance of the Father's glory and the exact imprint of the Father. He's been crowned with glory and honor and he's the apostle and our high priest. So there's again an emphasis on Jesus Christ and these offices that he carries as our mediator and our theology of the glory of God needs to consider that. And then first John through third John, we see that fellowship with the fathers through the son and it's the outworking of glory in the Christian. And then Noel taught last week about the revelation of Jesus Christ and how God's glory was revealed and Jesus' message to the seven churches. He's the glory of the one who was pierced and God's glory was revealed in God's judgment of the unbelieving world. God's glory is revealed in the events surrounding Jesus' return and it's revealed in the eternal state with the new Jerusalem. So that's a review and whenever you're doing a systematic theology to whatever degree and extent you've had the time to go through the Bible and look at what the Bible teaches on this matter, whatever it is that you happen to be studying. It's good before you begin to try to summarize things or relate things to one another to look at the forest now because you've been looking at all these individual trees. Now you need to take a step back. So let's go to the second point. But before I get into that, are there any questions at this point or anything anybody wants to add or thoughts that they were thinking about as I was sharing that? It's humbling when you see how much revelation there is around the glory of God. God's glory is in every aspect of systematic theology. Whatever topic you choose, whether it be eschatology, the incarnation, the church, creation, it's in every area. When we consider redemptive history, we see God's glory working itself out in redemptive history. When we consider the person of God, we see God's glory referencing specific attributes. We see God's glory being the name of God, the majestic glory. We see God getting the word glory describing His whole summary of His attributes. And we see God's glory revealing itself, outworking and manifesting itself, and God saving and performing supernatural sovereign works that are called His glory. Then we see His people reciprocating and it's called glorifying God. So when we start to think about glory of God and we consider all these various ways of theology and looking at theology, we realize the glory of God is everywhere and it's not an easy responsibility. Josh? Yeah, I was just, as we were going through this summary, just thinking about various scriptures. So to kind of piggyback on, sorry, just had to use that phrase, piggyback what Pastor Mike was saying about the Word and how God reveals Himself and makes manifest Himself His glory known. So Gospel of John, just thinking about a couple of passages, like in John chapter 1, talking about how He beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten, full of grace and full of truth, and how you mentioned the Trinitarian aspect. There's various passages in John that talk about the relationship between the Father and the Son, but also the Holy Spirit. And you have chapters 14, 15, and 16 and how the relationship between the Father and Son is brought out even more so in his high priestly prayer in chapter 17 of John. And then all the various signs and how you mentioned those signs were done so that we can believe that He is the Son and have eternal life. I think that's in chapter 20 or 21 towards the end. And then also, I'm not going to go through all these things, but just thinking about Paul's epistles and how Paul there's that theme of the old man and the new man and how we're born to this world as the first Adam, but we're brought in newness of life to look like the resurrected, the last and perfect Adam, or the second Adam, I forget the exact language of Paul, but also the glory. So you have 2 Corinthians chapter 3, how he beheld the glory and how we move from one glory to the next. 2 Corinthians chapter 3 into chapter 4, but also Paul brings up the end, the eschaton, how this whole creation cries out in glory in Romans chapter 8. And then you also mentioned Christ and how Paul talks about the different states of humiliation, exaltation. And that made me think of Philippians chapter 2 where you see Christ humbling and then being exalted. So I just wanted to share my thoughts. Amen. Thank you. Yeah, and it's good to also continue to tie our thoughts even if we trust they're accurate, continue to tie them back to Scripture. Yes. I just wanted to say one thing. I was really encouraged through our study to see or really to not see that gold dust falling from the ceiling or people rolling around on the ground is a manifestation of the glory of God. So if any of you are ever tempted to think that there's a possibility, those things that you see on YouTube, just remember we went through the Bible and we thought about the glory of God extensively and there is nothing of gold dust falling from the ceiling or people rolling around on the ground as a manifestation of the glory of God. Yeah. There's a little bit of a history there too with Luther and he had what was called the theology of the cross and he spoke against those who had a theology of glory. And what I'm saying when I say the theology of glory, it can be confusing when you hear that. But there were people who thought God could be known and communed with through his supernatural works. And they emphasized and they philosophized about God and sought to come to know him through his works and through his general revelation and it sounded when I was reading it very rational whereas it wasn't gospel centered and Luther would speak against that and say Christianity is not a theology of merely doctrine or academia and it's not something that is obtained by experience. Like if like Pastor Michael was saying, do we have a supernatural experience when we're born again? Yes. So please don't get me wrong there. But there's a difference in those who have this idea of how God is known and communed with when they consider not the heart change by the spirit but other works of God whether in history or ones they believe to be current whereas he would say the theology of the cross is where you come to know God and would focus on Jesus Christ in that way. So if you ever hear that the theology of glory being spoken against in some book you know it's not what we've been focusing on and it's a misuse of communion with God, obedience to God and how we come to know God but you made me think of it when he was talking about it. So let's go to the next point and it's developing a summary definition of multiple biblical meanings of God's glory so as we were looking at the biblical theology and all these instances of this word glory and this concept of God's glory in the ways that we did look and recognize we've got different senses here, different meanings, different contexts and now we can line up all those meanings and ask the question is there a way to summarize this either in a statement or in a definition that would be able to bring those things together so that we might be able to think about them as a whole and if you will remember before we get to that definition that the primary biblical vocabulary that we utilized to develop our biblical theology was K-Bode and Doxa and we've gone over those meanings if you will remember too they were used as adjectives, as nouns and as verbs so an adjective is like what color coat is this? It's a blue coat that's an adjective modifying the noun of coat so when we said the glorious God it's an adjective describing God so those words were used in a way that would modify or inform us, describe something about God and use as nouns the glory of God itself as its own entity in some sense and then glorify God as a verb so we looked at that in the use of K-Bode and Doxa and we remember those general meanings you know K-Bode as weightiness, heaviness to the abundance and majesty and splendor of God and Doxa has some various nuances we saw it's really hard though I've even grown a little bit more with my understanding of dictionaries like dictionaries they're trying to give you what they see predominant meanings are in the Bible but the ultimate ruler for a meaning of a word in the Bible is the context so when you start looking at some words like I will come in my father's glory that's very rich we're talking about him being the eternal son of God we're talking about him coming as a mediator we're talking about him coming in works to judge and to save and power so we might go to the dictionary say which one which one it's a combination and what tells us it's a combination it's the context and we compare that context and we understand it to other revelations of the glory of God so anyways I'm giving you those dictionary definitions you know Doxa carried some in the B-dag which is a Greek dictionary of the meaning of the condition of being bright or another definition a state of being magnificent greatness and splendor honor and a transcendent being deserving of honor so in considering and remembering that vocabulary we want to remind ourselves again of the usage of those words and coming up with a definition and then what we did is we went to the Bible to look at the usage of those words and we came up with some various meanings of the words in our biblical theology and I don't presume to say this list is exhaustive but let's look at multiple meanings that we saw in there before we try to come up with a system go to 2 Peter 117 and I'm going to read these fairly quickly for he received from God or yeah that's 117 2 Peter 117 for he received from God the father honor and glory when such a voice came to him from the excellent glory so here we see the word glory if you remember carries the sense of a designation of God it's actually describing or designating himself as glory from the majestic glory we heard a voice which came from the excellent glory a voice came to him from the excellent glory this is my beloved son we know that's the father the next another sense turned to Psalm 24 and even if we didn't look at these specific texts as we went along these senses I believe were captured in our teaching and these verses are just to remind us of those and to try to isolate them so that we can relate them and in verse 7 lift up your heads oh you gates and be lifted up you everlasting doors and the king of glory shall come in so that he is the king of what of glory and that is a description of an internal characteristic of him or an attribute or a summary of his attributes I would say it's a summary there but we see that word glory getting used to reference something internal about God his nature and you remember Stephen in Acts 7 he calls him the God of glory who came to Abraham and now let's go to Exodus 16-7 and I'll read it 6 from starting from the quote at evening you shall know that the Lord has brought you out of the land of Egypt and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord for he hears your complaints against the Lord but what are we that you complain against us also Moses said this shall be seen when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening and then if you'll skip to verse 10 now it came to pass as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel that they look toward the wilderness and behold the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud so the glory of the Lord appearing in the cloud is a manifestation of his presence so when we're speaking here we're talking about God dwelling in some sense among his people if you look at Exodus 33 verse 14 and he said my presence will go with you and I will give you rest then he said to him if your presence does not go with us do not bring us up from here and then if you look at 18 and he said please show me your glory and he says I will make all my goodness pass before you and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you so he wants to see he knows God is going to go his presence will go with them and he wants to see the glory of God so we can see here that in some sense when he's making his goodness pass before him there's a presence of God there and he declares and proclaims the name of the Lord to him and we also see that the glory is a reference to the attributes of God here so it has this here the sense of God dwelling and also a revelation that his glory is a summary of his attributes and in John 2.11 we see the display of God's attributes perfections or persons or person this beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee and manifested his glory and his disciples believed in him so glory if you remember takes on this sense of displaying something of God particularly here with turning water into wine his sovereign power over creation and the ultimate goal so we see this is interesting go to John 11 verse 4 another sense or meaning is John 11.4 with Lazarus when Jesus heard that he said the sickness is not unto death but for the glory of God what's the purpose the goal it's that the son may be glorified through it so we need to consider and weave into our understanding of a summary definition of the glory of God that not only does it is a reference to his nature and a summary of his attributes and a reference to his dwelling and these other things and his very name but it's also a reference to his purposes so we need to have an understanding of God's glory that that terminates in him so to speak and I'll just read the others and then read that definition and we'll pick up with how we came to that definition like next time so also we didn't get to look at it but heaven itself is called glory and consummated and it's the consummated experience of God's presence and also the appropriate response to God in the form of worship and obedience is to glorify him and we can look at that to how people are praising God or glorifying God when he does things so this was I think the best summary that I've been able to find thus far so I put it in here the triune God who is glorious displays his glory so it begins with who he is internally and it moves from there to a display of it and the display of it is largely through his creation his image bearers his providence and his redemptive acts and as he displays and manifests his glory his people respond by glorifying him and then God receives that glory and through uniting his people to Christ shares his glory with them and all of this to his glory so we'll see how those various reviews and the senses were brought together to come up with that definition next time and then we'll go into the next point from there we have two more lessons any questions alright let's pray father in heaven I praise you we praise you for this sufficient word and even the blessing of living in this age and being able to hold the completed canon and have a clear view of Christ by the Spirit I pray that our theology of your glory will continue to grow and we would be humbled to see our inability to comprehend the incomprehensible and cling to what you have revealed help us to bring it together as is fitting and appropriate and not go into areas where we ought not Lord help us to trust you and not be like philosophers without faith but to be like children who diligently study your word and faith Amen