Two Glories

House of God
Today’s Topic: Culture of the Son: Two Glories
Scripture: Hebrews 1:1-3; John 17:1,4,5,22; 1 Corinthians 12:10; John 1:1

Greetings Kingdom Citizens:
Now when we look at the Father’s glory we can safely state that it is available to the son. Hebrews 1:3 and John 1:14 prove this. But I want to further explore this powerful revelation because Jesus spoke or better yet, prayed extensively on this issue. Let’s look at John 17. We are going to walk through this carefully and if we need to we will break this up into multiple messages. Now in John 17 we see Jesus praying to the Father and we will start here.

John 17:1,4,5
Jesus starts the prayer by telling the Father that the hour has come; glorify the Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee. So right off the bat we see there is a correlation between the Father and the Son and glory. Now let’s shift to verses 4 and 5. Jesus says that He has glorified the Father on the Earth: and has finished the work which the Father gave to Him to do. And NOW, O FATHER GLORIFY THOU ME WITH THINE OWN SELF WITH THE GLORY WHICH I HAD WITH THEE BEFORE THE WORLD WAS! Now stop you cannot possibly pass this by. There is obviously a glory that was native to Christ before He came to the Earth. Now when He came to the Earth, He left that glory and entered into another. Look at verse 4 and 5 again Jesus is saying I have finished the work you have asked me to do and now I am asking you to restore me back to the glory I had with you BEFORE THE WORLD WAS. That glory before the world was formed was the native glory to Christ. He took that glory off to come to earth and entered into another glory to give us an example to how the glory of God comes to the Earth.

John 17:22:”And the glory which thou gavest to me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one.” Now look at this and it ought to make you shout. The glory that the Father gave to Jesus while in Earth, Jesus is giving to us? What is that glory? He tells you that same scripture: That they may be one with the Father even as Jesus and the Father were one. Do we see this? So now we understand that there are two glories.

The first glory is the glory that Christ speaks of in John 17:5. That glory is understood in John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. That glory is Jesus being God before he left and came to the Earth. By leaving that glory He entered into another and that is understood in Hebrews 1:3 that the Son is the brightness or radiance of the Father’s glory. This is the Father being glorified in the Son, but not just the Son, Jesus because Jesus said He gave us the same glory. The Father is being glorifed in the sons of God in the Earth. In other words and this is a doozy for most people:
“You as a son of God are to be the brightness of the Father’s Glory”
Yes that is correct, you, the one that only knows yourself as a sinner saved by grace. Yes, you who only knows yourself as a Christian. Yes, you, the one who has been told after being saved now you can go to Heaven so wait until Jesus comes. Yes, there is much more to your life on Earth than waiting for Jesus to return. You are to be the light of brightness of God’s glory to the creation. Let me show you this mind-blowing picture of this very thing I have told you.

Romans 8:19: “For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God” Now you may think that this manifestation is some sweet by-and-by time and in the end it will but let me show you the manifestation in 1 John 3:2: “Beloved NOW ARE WE THE SONS OF GOD, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.” We are the sons of God and God has given the Spirit of Lordship and to some the spirit to work miracles 1 Corinthians 12:10. But it is through the sons of God that the glory of the Father comes to the Earth.

At the Father’s Service,
Elder Calvin Calhoun Jr.