The Glorious Gospel

According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. - 1 Timothy 1:11

    There are very few things glorious in this world. Glorious essentially means, having or radiating the perfections of the divine. Certainly, nothing connected with fallen man could truthfully be termed as “glorious.” This adjective can only describe things that are not of this world; things far superior to that of corruptible flesh.

    In and of have two very different meanings. Our Lord makes the distinction clear—And now I am no more in the world, but these are in theworld, . . .Theyarenot of theworld, even as I am not of the world (Jn 17:11, 16).

    All glorious things in this world are connected with the glorious gospel of our blessed God! Paul wrote, According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust (1 Tm 1:11). The Gospel is glorious because it is of God. The Gospel is in the world, but not of the world. The Word of God is not the word of man, but the Word of God! We are assured that, For ever, 0 Lord, thy word is settled in heaven (Ps 119: 89).

    The saints are in the world, but they are not of this world. They are not born of this world—Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever (1 Pt 1:23). Neither are they citizens of this world. The children of God are, no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God (Eph 2:19).

    The children of God in the world, but who are not of the world, are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises (glory) of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. The Gospel of God is glorious, and all that it begets is glorious. All that is not connected with the Gospel will perish. All that is connected with the Gospel, in which the glory of God is revealed in the Face of Jesus Christ, will radiate God's glory here in this world, and the world to come. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you (1 Pt 1: 24-25).