FOREWORD FOR THE WEEK: 25 October 2020

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BRINGING SONS TO GLORY

TEXT: HEBREWS 2:9-10

Bringing Sons glory is a process, and it involves “building up” or “taking through” (Psalm 102:16). It is a transformation process from Child to Son. The process is required and expedient if we must carry his glory. It is a Son and not Child that can be clothed in glory. This make glory a product of a process.

Isaiah 9:6 reveals that government (responsibility) can only be on the shoulder of Son. John spoke well of how Son brings glory to the Father and Father is always glorified in the Son (not child) – John 13:31, John 14:13, John 11:4, John 17:1-3.

  • The process involves:
    1. Spiritual growth – Luk 2:40, 1 Sam 2:26, Exo 2:10-15, Heb 11:24. Building a strong inner man, the hidden man of the heart
    2. Training and development – Gal 4:1-7, Act 7:20-22, Exo 2:9, Prov 22:6. Spiritual leaders, fathers, mentors. They provide guidance and tutelage in the words of faith, life journey and lessons. They inculcate good values and virtue that help bear his glory.
    3. Wilderness experience – it is all alone journey. The only person with you in this experience is the Holy Spirit. Jesus (Luk 4:1-2,14), Moses (Act 7:23, 29-34), Joseph (Gen 37:22) all were left alone. No Father, Mother, Husband, Wife, or Friends to go along with you. All they can do is to provide support system in prayer and encouragement.

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  • Dimensions of God’s Glory
    1. His Presence – Exo 33:12-15, 2 Cor 3:17-19. Glory symbolises God’s presence
    2. His Goodness – Exo 33:18-19. Spiritual treasures, substance, his name in our lives, grace, mercy rest, safety, and security (Exo 33:22). Not based on mundane or temporary things

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  • The goal of the three processes above is Spiritual Maturity, a stage we can successfully carry God’s glory otherwise, it will either:
    1. Destroy us, no flesh (lifestyle of Carnality) can carry his glory – Exo 33:18-20, Uzzah (2 Sam 6:3-8)
    2. We abuse, misuse, or bastardise it – Jude 1:4

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  • Glory is in realms and are relative. The glory you manifest is a function of nature and scope of your assignment (1 Cor 15:40-41). God’s desire is that we keep moving from one realm of glory to another (2 Cor 3:18). But to access the next level glory is dependent on two conditions:
    1. Additional maturity attained based on those three processes
    2. How we use and account for existing glory

Pastor Reuben Adeleye

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