 There is a handout that has been supplied in the Slack channel under the Sunday school lesson channel So please go there and pull that up or print it out for this morning Also, if you have any questions We're probably going to set aside a channel in the future That's four questions, but for today. Let's use the general communication channel Robinson will be checking it for any Sunday school questions and raise his hand on your behalf, and then I'll answer them hopefully So let's Remind ourselves where we are right now our church in general is laboring to grow in its doctrine of God theology proper and With the Sunday school lessons we're focusing on the glory of God No, well just finished going through a Review of the glory of God in the Old Testament and now we're beginning in the New Testament and Of course to begin with in the New Testament you have Matthew Mark and Luke the synoptic Gospels Optical opt they saw witnesses and Sin together so those three together have many parallels because they saw witnessed the works of Christ where as John wrote later and Focused on different things So we're focusing on Matthew Mark Luke and John and the glory of God there And to remind you of part one today's part two of that Last week there was an emphasis on the importance of Jesus Christ in our study. I introduced that He is the testimony of scripture. He said it is these that is the scripture that testify of me and John 5 39 and His unique place as God's agent of special revelation being the one to declare him Considering his person in relation to the father John 1 18 which is one of the memory verses says No one has seen God at any time The only begotten son who is in the bosom of the father he has declared him and I mentioned that one perspective of a broad overview of revel special revelation is to Notice and pay attention to how much of the Old Testament prior to the actual coming of Christ points to him and then When he comes there's four accounts of it and then after he ascends There's much written about what he actually accomplished and what that means for the future So it's kind of like word act word About that act and and where we are now is in that key area of the the life of the Messiah and his humiliation and Since he is the one who declares the father We ought to pay very close attention to the words in life of Jesus Christ the Son of God in our study of the glory of God Having said that though I informed you of some of the obvious limitations of our efforts We're only really looking at one word doxa which is translated glory most of the time and Some and and some key events in Christ's life None of this should be thought of as exhaustive For example, we could look at the works and signs of Jesus To gain much knowledge of the glory of God and we could look at the words and all the ways in which he spoke parables The way he lived and acted his obedience to the father all those things could reveal to us the glory of God But we're not focusing on those specifically and then last week The two event there are events that we looked at things that we looked at was doxa a usage of that word and then the birth of Jesus and Then we tied it up at the end there with a discussion about the incarnation so Moving on this morning. Let's go to the transfiguration and the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ Of and there's some handouts here if you if anybody wants any of their on the chairs over there So I am moving to point three on your notes And if you look at the first bullet point Moses and Elijah It's the references Luke 931 And then I have also Matthew and Mark That's just to give us more Biblical content on the Luke 931 passage the Luke 931 passages are focus because that's where the word doxa is used So before I read 931 in isolation, let's just read that whole context So if you would turn to Luke 9 and I am going to read from 18 to 36 It's a long section For what we're normally used to quoting, but I think it's very important and it happened as He was alone praying that his disciples joined him and he asked them saying who do the crowds say that I am So they answered and said John the Baptist But some say Elijah and others say that one of the prophets has risen again He said to them, but who do you say that I am? Peter answered and said the Christ of God and He strictly warned and commanded them to tell this to no one saying The son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders chief priests and scribes and be killed And be raised third day Then he said to them all if anyone desires to come after me let him deny himself Take up his cross daily and follow me for whoever desires to save his life will lose it But whoever loses his life for my sake will save it for what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world And is himself destroyed or lost For whoever it's ashamed of me and my words of him the son of man will be Ashamed when he comes in his own glory in his father's and of the holy angels But I tell you truly there is some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the kingdom of God Now it came to pass about eight days after these sayings that he took Peter John and James and went up on on the mountain to pray as he prayed The appearance of his face was altered and his robe became white and glistening and behold two men talked with him who were Moses and Elijah who appeared in glory and Spoke of his decease which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem But Peter and those with him were heavy with sleep and when they were fully awake. They saw his glory and The two men stood with him then it happened as they were parting from him that Peter said to Jesus master It is good for us to be here and let us make three Tabernacles one for you one for Moses and one for Elijah not knowing what he said while he was saying this a Cloud came and overshadowed them and they were fearful as they entered the cloud and a voice came out of the cloud Saying this is my beloved son hear him When the voice had ceased Jesus was found alone But they kept quiet and told no one in those days any of the things they had seen In the ministry of Jesus Christ approximately three years. He is entering into his final year and a ministry in pariah Luke records much of that ministry the Jews had not long rejected him in Galilee after feeding them and He is in a stage of his ministry where there's a lot of opposition and It's going to climax in the cross and If you look at Matthew 17 verse 3 to get context Or wait that that's for the specific leave Moses, but if you go up I want to go before that to 1621 from that time Jesus began so at a Point in Jesus's ministry when he knew and set his face like flint to the cross That this is Going to that climax and the opposition is going to ramp He begins to prophesy and tell them of the sufferings that are coming and he began to show his disciples that they must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things and Peters took him aside and began to rebuke him But Jesus said get behind me Satan you were in offense to me You're not mindful of the things of God that's what the con that's why I read that context and then went there because Remember the disciples they don't have the clarity of Revelation that we have they have the Old Testament and what they had been taught from their their culture and rabbis teaching them and now what Jesus has corrected and and Purged out of them and they're growing But they have no idea The hatred that man has against God That's going to be manifest in the sufferings of Christ and It's going to be Directed at them as well to some degree, but of course they'll scatter and One of I think that helps that context helps us get a better Understanding of why the transfiguration occurred when it occurred It's it's a The ministry of the discipleship of Jesus Christ he got done telling them if anyone comes after me and does not hate and that's after Peter said No, you shall not go and he said if anyone does not come after me and and Then Knowing their weakness, I believe that in part God the Father Revealed the glory of Jesus Christ to them intimately To better equip them for what was coming it's kind of like when you're in a storm and You don't know where to go and you need to be reminded. There's a lighthouse look to the lighthouse, you know Heard I've listened to Mark Mudge's sermon on this and Mark and he was saying it was like a Medical student who's laboring to study the body and it's very very long and arduous Degree and in the midst of their studies they get about three years in and they're tired and they're they're like I can't do it It's too much and a doctor says come with me and he takes them to the hospital and Shows them a newborn baby. You mean given to her parents to remind the the the student of the where you're headed of the purpose so the transfiguration helps the disciples and us see where things are going and It so let's go. Let's keep going So he prophesies of a suffering in unbelief They seek to rebuke him, but he in turn rebukes them or Peter particularly Corrects them and then comes the transfiguration and if we go back to Mark Luke 9 and looking at verse 29 as he prayed The appearance of his face was altered and his robe became white and glistening And behold two men were talking with him who were Moses and Elijah Who appeared in glory and spoke of his decease which was he was about to accomplish in Jerusalem So let's look first at this word glory as it's related to Moses and Elijah and Seek to grow in our understanding of God's glory in that way and Within this area of Moses and Elijah when it says that they appeared in glory The question is what does that mean You know, what does that mean who they appeared in glory and if you remember last week there were multiple definitions that glory could take It could be the condition of being bright or shining brightness splendor radiance This is coming from that word doxa and its use in biblical literature It also could mean a state of being magnificent greatness or splendor It can be honor as enhancement or recognition of status or it can be a Transcendent being deserving of honor and I know that they're not transcendent beings And I don't think that this is like they're famous Saying they appeared in fame like honor And I'm not even sure it's a state of being Magnificent it's either one or two either they are giving off a form of radiance or and or they are having a form of magnificence or splendor and Where do they get that That that's what we need to get from this is Where did Moses and Elijah when they appear in glory? Where does that glory come from it comes from God? It reveals that they had their souls are never dying That they were translated. Well Elijah Moses died but they're in the intermediate state and perfected spirits Yet in some form come down and Either through the conversation or just divine Communication the disciples know that's Moses and Elijah and Where did they come from they came from heaven It doesn't say that we just know that that's where those who are an intermediate state reside is Is To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord so they have come from heaven sent by the Father and They are glorious that goes to tell us that those who are in heaven even now have been perfected and are are Reflecting God's glory It's of stinking of that familiar analogy, you know like the Sun in the moon They cannot help but but it's like Moses's face when he communicated with with The theophany that guy gave in the old covenant He had to cover his face because it's shown the glory. Well, they're coming in glory and That teaches us something about God's glory that it is majestic. It's transformative God's glory is transformant transform it All right, let's keep moving though Some some side notes There is significance with this, you know Moses being a representative of the law and Elijah being a representative of the prophets and combine their representative of special revelation the Old Testament the then Bible and They should help us see something between The old covenant and the new the old system and the mediator of the new covenant the son of God is categorically different and They exist to witness and testify to him. There's not equality. There's not like Man getting greater and this is the greatest man. This is testifying of the unique Divine son of God in his mediatorial work and if you were thinking like the disciples and Meditation about that and the way they thought of Moses. Moses was a big deal for Jews and even today to see Moses coming from heaven and Speaking to Christ Would have been Helpful just to help see that that proportionate difference. This is the son of God and What they were speaking of was his exodus if you look it says Who appeared in glory and spoke of his decease and then my side notes it says death or literally Departure it is literal departure often meaning as a figure of speech unto this moral mortal world into death And it doesn't often get used for the word death so Unusual word for death is used here and you know what that's Transliter translated or what what it reads like exodus the exodus The word here is exodus. It's not the normal Greek word for death though. It could be translated deceased This word is the same Greek word used for Israel's exodus out of Egypt Given the context of Luke That is Jesus's prediction of his death and now his following Transfiguration and the unity of Scripture This is drawing attention to what Christ came to do as fulfillment of the Old Testament they're speaking to Christ about his purpose and What he has come to do the mediator of a better covenant a New covenant with its own exodus The true exodus that that Old Testament exodus meant to point to they're discussing it And I don't think it missed their attention went or even if it did. I don't think I certainly do not think knowing Just the way Scripture is so unified that Regardless of whether the author Luke knew hit the word he was selecting and why I know that it ties in perfectly with the revelation given to us and I Believe this should serve to remind us that God's glory is I don't know how to word it Greatly manifested maybe primarily or preeminently in his salvation through judgment and Let's go to the next point Jesus Christ so in this Transfiguration In verse 9 29 his And he prayed the appearance of his face was altered and his robe became white and glistening and Also verse 32 They saw his glory It doesn't list it with the glory of Moses and Elijah appearing they they're speaking separately of Jesus saying they saw his Glory, he didn't appear in glory like Moses and Elijah. They saw his glory And specifically his face was altered or it became different in appearance Metamorph or metamorph. Oh Luke doesn't use that verb But mark does So let's look at the other text too. I want to show more First of all his face it was altered It doesn't really say much beyond that so let's go to Matthew and then mark or we'll look at mark later Matthew 17 verse 2 and He was transfigured So his form not his essence his being his form changed It's where we get our word metamorphosis It's not speaking of his being is speaking of his form and it changed and What happened with his face is it shown like the Sun? There there we have a simile So when I think of the Sun when I look at it, I can't even look at it straight for very long it blinds me It turns like black and then white and black and it's too bright. I just can't take it When Peter or Peter James and John when they when they give a count of this and then it becomes inscripturated What they said is it's like the Sun and that's his face Hit and That's his face. Let's also look at his robe while we're here Let's keep going look at his robe and his clothes became as white as light and Mark Remember that as white as light and Luke it said white and glistening and now let's go to mark That's in Mark 9 2 through 3 his he was transfigured before them and I want to make a point there. He didn't transfigure himself It's passive voice So he was transfigured. He was acted upon by whom? the father it is the father who is revealing his glory and changing his form Let's keep going though to look at his His Glory in these ways His clothes became shining so when I think of something that shines I think of reflection off of water Sun reflecting off things metals that are polished and they glitter and Exceedingly white like snow so now his clothes when they think about whiteness They think of like pure snow and it marks as such as no launderer on earth Can whiten it? it's impossible to Achieve what I have seen with my eyes on this planet All that speaks to the transcendent glory of God His majesty and beauty the beauty of his holiness and his nature is infinitude When we think of him in this imagery, which is not merely imagery. It was reality for their eyes When we're talking about not on this earth It reminds us of God's transcendent holiness and glory his greatness It's beyond us And yet he's giving us a physical manifestation to help us Understand that better That should teach us some of the glory Of God and our study in the synoptics Um This is particularly of the sun And if we go saw his glory It says there in Luke 9 Like as I read before When they saw his glory So this is his glory. He possesses it But it's the father that's revealing it It should teach us Not only is God's glory manifest in his essence and nature, but in his triunity his The father the son and the spirit our god is not We have a christian monotheism Where we must remember that god is one god in three persons And that each person as we think of them is fully god so Going from there. Let's uh I think that That definition the condition of being bright shining brightness splendor radiance Would take preeminence when it's describing his glory there But I know that that that radiance here being tied to the sun and being manifested by the father Is a result of his ontological glory and his mediatorial glory So it's not like Shining around the angels or the the glory that moses and elijah had they're reflecting merely this is of the sun in his mediatorial position Who is ontologically in the bosom of the father at all times God very god a very god and yet very man a very man manifesting his glory as mediator So I would say it's probably a combination of one and two for that word doxa A transcendent being you could combine that one as well a transcendent being Well, well, let's move on though. Let's go to loot the father in this Transfiguration and look at how the father manifests his own glory and the glory of the sun In luke 929 And as he prayed the appearance of his face was altered and then the other two translations marked and matthew Transfigured That again that was the passive Um I just wanted to remind of that that this is the father manifesting the glory of his own son and Let's go to 34 and 35 While he was saying this so this is peter speaking About making the tabernacles while peter was saying this a cloud came and overshadowed them And they were fearful as they entered the cloud and a voice came out of the cloud saying This is my beloved son hear him Look at with me Mark 9 It's a little bit different mark gives different details Verse 7 And a cloud came and overshadowed them And a voice came saying this is my beloved son Uh another uh one I I want to say that I was reading and it might be there in luke Or uh, I I skip matthew go to matthew That's where I wanted to go. I'm sorry While he was still speaking behold Matthew 17 5 while he was still speaking behold a bright cloud Overshadowed them and suddenly a voice came So it wasn't slow You have to think peter's there they've just woken up and he's saying something silly because he's not thinking right And they he's just witnessed this this Transcendent glory of jesus christ And after he says this this cloud immediately comes over them And suddenly a voice comes while they're in the cloud And it says this is my beloved son hear him This cloud is used and god has manifested this form of glory in multiple ways in in the old testament and In other places too like Some author thought that that was similar to what paul might have witnessed But uh and then there's that glory that we saw at the birth around the shepherds Shown around them, you know so But specifically this cloud Reminds of the shekinah glory In exodus 40 if you go to exodus 40 And I know that noel's already been through there. So i'm just going to remind of it exodus 40 verse 34 Then the cloud The end of verse 33 so men Moses finished the work then The cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting and the glory of the lord Filled the temple So this is This glory I would say is the same glory. It's the glory of yaweh. It's the glory of the lord And if you go also to first kings eight first kings eight verse 10 and 11 And then I'll move on And it came to pass when the priest came out of the holy place That the cloud filled the house So that the priest could not continue ministering because of the cloud They can't see they can't it it they know that I can't I cannot perform the duties and not only can I not physically do it This glory of god is is Where I cannot be For the glory of the lord filled the house of the lord Then Solomon spoke so how does solemn Interpret what had happened the lord said He would dwell in the dark cloud I have surely built you an exalted house a place for you to dwell in forever This is god's presence. This is the way in which god is manifesting his presence that he is communicating I am there I am dwelling with you as but he's Omnipresent immense How is it that well there is a particular Communication of god's glory that's occurring right here There's a particular blessedness Where god is blessing those that are near and in the cloud He's it's a way of communicating I'm near And when it's coming around them and the son Having seen his glory that the father has Revealed to them and then what does the father say? This is my beloved son Look, I am drawing near to you This is my beloved son He a commandment Hear him that reminds us of dude around me 18 Uh, I will raise up for your prophet him you shall hear And the father is making it so so clear it can't get any more clear This is the one This is the one who manifests my name. This is the one through whom you will be saved This is the promised messiah. This is my anointed And if you want to know what I am and what I look like look to him I have sent him for this purpose Hear him that doesn't mean just listen like obey what he says everything hang on every word that he says It's a very glorious event Uh, and it's all a Foretelling of the glory that christ has now And moses and elijah are just a foretaste of what will be even greater at the resurrection For all those who put their trust in christ And the whole thing from verse 18 on Is heavily stressing the exclusivity of jesus christ as the only way of salvation Uh He's the only one who's revealed moses and elijah are witnessing to him He just got done saying if anyone does not come after me Um, the father saying hear him So those things should help Uh equip us to rightly think where should I go to think of the glory of god? Well think of the glory of god as manifest in the face and work of jesus christ and god through christ All right, let's let's uh, I want to say a A quick note about the already and not yet so god is uh glorified and manifest his glory and that Everything is not like chronologically Categorically nice and like the way our finite minds work I make a list and I got to work down just like i'm teaching but but god overlaps his ages He he brings in New covenant benefits all the way back in genesis 315 and there's already eternal life being given there And only being more and more manifest and bearing more and more fruit throughout the entire new testament all the way to the climax Or the glorification But yet all alone. There's the old covenant. There's the old world That's passing away and yet still god is working and there's this already of salvation and there's this not yet so this thing with um the transfiguration that tells us is that There is a not yet aspect of god's glory that he will communicate to us and that we will partake of in communion with him That we ought to be hoping in and setting our eyes upon I want to be with him in that state I want to be Freed in such a way that I might know him without the hindrances that god never intended me to have So um Let me read this quote Another redemptive historical expression of god's extrinsic glory, that's the god Manifesting what he possesses and describing and declaring it and manifesting it outwardly to others Can be viewed from the vantage point of the already not yet tension It's interesting. We're saved We're currently being saved and we will be saved So there's already aspects and there's not yet aspects His glory that's god's glory has been seen and is presently being displayed that is clear from many texts and topics We have already referenced creation human beings created in the image of god particular manifestations like in the old testament Christ salvation yet history still awaits god's ultimate display of himself Ortland puts it passionately his glory will be admired and delighted in and trembled everywhere Later he adds god is moving toward the new heavens and the new earth. He has promised the full display of his glory And then beaky or i'm sorry not beaky gregory bill On revelation the sovereignty of god and christ and redeeming and judging brings them glory Which is intended to motivate saints to worship god And reflect his glorious attributes through obedience to his word Even more nothing from the old world will be able to hinder god's glorious presence from completely filling the new cosmos Nor hinder the saints from unceasing access to that divine presence so this this Manifestation of christ and thereby the manifestation of the glory of god Should point us not just to the present For them or even the present for ourselves, but to the future to come Robinson has a question Yes, miss betty asked the question with reference to first king Eight first kings eight verse 12 where he talks about the lord said he would dwell In the dark cloud So the question is if it's god's glory, why is it dark and not super bright with reference to the cloud? That's a good point. Um I don't know I haven't given much thought to dark versus bright What I was focusing on was cloud I know that in The redemption of israel There was a cloud that led them by day and a cloud that led them by night And for some it was terrible. It was judgment for others. It was deliverance uh, so Solomon seeing this glory filling the temple Knows that god manifests his presence and Communicates his dwelling somewhere through the cloud And I'm thinking to perhaps maybe the dark is referring to the Maybe the thickness of the cloud maybe because it was so dense Um, yeah, just perhaps that might I don't know um Like that's a good question Well, let's let's go to um The next point our last point god's glory revealed in the second coming of jesus christ And we're going to use mark and matthew and mark. So I've taken the second coming of christ and the synoptics when it's mentioned and I focused on matthew and mark Because they're using this word glory doxa with reference to it And then when I looked at those those texts They overlap because they're talking about the second coming of christ But they hit different aspects of the second coming and I tried to break that into three aspects There's repeated mention of the glory of his father There's repeated mention of the throne of his glory and there's repeated mention of what he will do when he comes in his second coming And we wanted to look at those things because that word doxa is all tied in with that and being glorious And we want to see what we can learn of god through it The glory of his father. So let's look at matthew 16 27 and uh because i'm focusing on these aspects and not The harmony of the gospels like the chronology like when jesus said it in luke And that same time he said it and mark you're going to see me not referencing them together because Even though it was the same event that they're both writing about Over here one author is revealing a different aspect of the second coming and over here An author is revealing a different aspect So we're going to kind of jump around and you're going to find ourselves right back to where we were But that's because now we're back over there. We're looking at a different aspect So that's how i categorized it if you're kind of confused like hey mark 838 isn't the same thing that was going over Why did he that's why it's because we're looking at this phrase the glory of his father mark matthew 16 27 For the son of man will come in the glory of his father with his angels and mark 8 38 For whoever is ashamed of me in my words in this adulterous and sinful generation of him The son of man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his father With the holy angels I am not Comfortable or real clear on The meaning of this glory the glory of his father And it's tied up into two realities and I want to discuss that Jesus christ There is a sense in which Christ had not received the reward of his sufferings And been exalted as the god man To the right hand of the father in in his ascension in session That that when we consider his humanity and we consider his Work of redemption Prior to completing that redemption those benefits or those rewards Were not yet formally given and Yet despite The work of redemption. Jesus christ has that's I would call his mediatorial lordship Mediatorial glory Well, there's also his lordship as the son of god divine deity And his glory as being the only begotten of the father and of course this one over here is is Inextricably indispensably dependent upon his ontological ontological glory But they are in two different categories It does help to make that distinction Um The scriptures do that and I want to show that to you So when we hear the glory of his father, I don't think that's just The glory that he had before the world was I think that that's the glory that he had before the world was As well as the reward of his sufferings as being coronated That means enthroned and crowned God's mediatorial king given the name above every name And having taken that position in god's redemption historical redemption He is god's ontological Beloved only begotten son who now having fulfilled his humiliation is exalted And when he comes in the glory of his father, it's not only his ontological Glory that he had before the world was where he said in john 17 5 glorify Me with the glory that I had with you before the world was it's also I believe his Receiving a kingdom and receiving go let's go to daniel daniel 7 verse I'll start now and I watched till thrones were put in place in the ancient of days was ceded His garment was white as snow And the hair of his head was like pure wool his throne was a fiery flame It's wheels a burning fire A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him and thousands A thousand thousands ministered to him ten thousand times tens thousands stood before him the court was seated and the books were opened and Go to verse 13 I was watching in the night visions And behold one like the son of man Coming with the clouds of heaven He came to the ancient of days And they brought him near before him That's they brought the son of man near before the ancient of days Then to him the son of man that is was given Dominion and glory and a kingdom That all peoples nations and languages should serve him Go to uh psalm 110 You see that glory there that was given to him Psalm 110 the lord said to my lord sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool The lord shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion rule in the midst of your enemies This sit at my right hand is the session of christ He did not enter into his session until after his humiliation That means he had to perform all the works of obedience and fulfillment of all his prophecies Die as a Substitutionary death and atoning for the people's sins and then he was resurrected And ascended and was seated That session is when he says sit at my right hand Um Psalm 2 and I'll I'll leave it there Psalm 2 Why do the nations rage and the people applaud a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take council together Against the lord and against his anointed saying let us break their bonds and pieces and cast away their cords from us He who sits in the heaven shall laugh the lord shall hold them in derision And he shall speak to them in his wrath and distress them in his deep displeasure Yet I have set my king on my holy hill I will declare the decree the lord has said to me you are my son today. I have begotten you Ask of me and I will give you the nations I will give you the nations of your inheritance And heber's picks that up and goes over all these texts about the deity of christ, but specifically uh the glory of christ in his coronation him being the the The god has spoken through his son. Well his son the one whom has resurrected and seated at the right hand of god He set him on his seat his throne so That glory this glory of his father. I believe is both ontological and mediatorial And you remember philippians 2 I'm in my mind. I'm feeling like some somebody out there might not be convinced with what they've seen so far I know when I was first learning of these things it was kind of like how does that work? you know god is timeless eternal And yet these texts are very clear But There's that already and not yet that goes on too that makes it not easy for us and our own incapacities to understand these things But the texts say it and here's another one philippians 2 He came from heaven. He humbled himself Therefore God has exalted him and given him the name he gave him the name It's it's a it's a lordship and a title that he did not yet have Because it's particularly related to his mediation So when it when he says i'm gonna come in the glory of my father He's coming in his divine glory In that sense where it's ontologically glorious But he's coming Equipped and set and it's appropriate time To carry out the will of his father now as king Prophet priest and king mediator is coming to judge and to save With great power The throne of his glory to to kind of Shorten things up here now The throne should remind us that Jesus christ Has been set Given a kingdom as we saw in daniel He it reminds and teaches us something of god's sovereignty You know We live in a democracy, but jesus christ sits on his throne And he is king The king of kings and when he comes in his glory Everything he wills to be done it will be done With totalitarian absolute obedience The angels will go forth and slay Those who do not know him And those who know him they will be saved no one will snatch him out of his hand They're they're going to be transformed into glorification Resurrected in the the ones that are in an intermediate state are coming with him and the ones that are still here on earth Having the ones coming from heaven will receive their bodies But the ones that are here on earth will be completely glorified and meet the lord in the air as they come as god Christ comes so God's glory is revealed in the throne of jesus christ And last his works So some of the works that jesus would do is if you remember he said i will send the Angels and they will gather the elect So one of the things that christ will do when he returns in a second coming Is he will consummate his salvation? He will finalize it and he will collect them And they will all be together with him Glorified And he will judge the bible is even more proliferate on That he's coming to judge He will come with great awe And in terrible judgment for those who do not know him and refuse to believe in him So those are the The the key events that we looked at and we were kind of letting that word doxa kind of guide us to those events And as I step back and think of Of the glory of god and how they're manifested in the incarnation and the birth and the transfiguration of the second coming I know and From other scripture that those are great places for us to be in Looking and seeking to know and grow in the glory the knowledge of the glory of god And uh, we saw how that word glory can mean different things It can be something that god Speaking of his himself and his own name and attributes possesses or it can be something where God is manifesting outwardly Some display of his glory for those who are receiving it to understand And it can be a verb used to glorify god where we In partaking in this glory of god we Share in our communion and worship of god we Speak and praise his name for what has been revealed to us in truth Not that we add to him but that we make manifest to those around us what is true of him and We express our love adoration and worship to him as we glorify him And we looked at it in the birth of jesus surrounding the the angels surrounding the the incarnation and the the shepherds The message that they came to give of christ We looked at the Transfiguration around the cloud what god said moses and elijah And we looked at the second coming so I hope these questions will help you in Diving a little bit further in this If you need help in picking a commentary or a systematic theology feel free to text me or ask a brother that you know knows And may god be honored in your hearts as you have grown through this lord billon. Let's pray father in heaven We praise your name and Glorify you and Your revelation of yourself in jesus christ We Asked that you would help this word that we've looked at Not leave our minds so easily like seed that is snatched up by birds But that it would reach that good soil that you've made us to be And have deep roots lord help us In general at this church grow in the knowledge of your glory and the knowledge of you as we study you in these studies And I pray that our worship this morning would Uh be pleasing in your sight and that your people Would apply what they've heard as they let their minds be Renewed with this truth as they sing And listen in christ's name. I pray amen