Alright brethren, let's turn
in our Bibles to John chapter 13. John 13. Read here in verse 31. It says, Therefore, When Judas was gone out, Jesus
said, now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him.
If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself
and shall straightway glorify him. It says, when Judas was
gone out, now it was only Christ and His true disciples, and He's
going to speak freely to them now. He knows that they're troubled.
He knows they're troubled. And He knows within just a little
over 40 days, He's going to ascend back to the Father. He's not
going to be there in bodily presence. And He's just told them one of
them will betray Him, and He knows they're troubled. And He
begins to comfort his people. That's what he's doing here,
he's comforting his people. And he begins by saying, speaking
of his glory, this is where we're going to be comforted, is beholding
his glory. And know that what he's doing,
he's doing for his glory. This is the anchor, this is the
foundation, this is how you know everything's going to work out
well, because he's doing everything for his glory. From this point
right here to the end of chapter 17, this is Christ speaking of
His glory and He's going to speak of it many times. Many times. He's going to talk about the
glory of His sufferings and His death on the cross. He's going
to talk about the glory in what He's working now from heaven. He's going to talk about the
glory of what He's going to work in His people. And he's going
to end over there in John 17 by praying for the Father to
glorify Him. And so there's a lot spoken of
here in these next four chapters about His glory. And as I said,
if you look over at John 16, 33, here's what the Lord's doing
right here. These things I've spoken unto
you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall
have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I've overcome the world.
He's comforting them. He's comforting them. He told
Peter, Peter, you're going to deny me. And you know that troubled
Peter. But he didn't say, didn't turn
around and say, and you know how I've said, Peter, that everybody
that denies me, I'll be ashamed to confess them. I'll deny them.
That would have crushed Peter. And that didn't apply to Peter,
because Peter's an elect child of God. But instead he said,
let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe in
me. And so, let's look here now. He begins this by comforting
them with his glory. Now is the Son of Man glorified.
There's the first point we'll look at. The Son of Man glorified
in his cross. And then God is glorified in
the Son. He said, and God's glorified
in him. And then thirdly, the Son of Man glorified in God.
He said, and if God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify
him in himself and shall straightway glorify him. So that's our three
points. So first, the Son of Man glorified
in the cross. He says that now is the Son of
Man glorified. Judas had gone out and the wheel
had started turning and it won't be long they're going to come
for Him. And He knows this. He's talking
about His cross. He's going to His cross. What
the world sees as foolishness, what many people see as just
a defeat, and what the Scripture describes as humiliation and
as suffering, that was His glory. That was His glory. Now let me
ask you a question. Why does He speak of Himself
as the Son of Man? Why does He say now is the Son
of Man glorified? Well, he's speaking of his humanity
as the son of Abraham, as the son of David, and he's speaking
here as the mediator between God and his people. He's serving
God, so he's speaking here as the mediator. And he's speaking,
he couldn't be glorified as the son of God, he's God. but He
can be glorified as the Son of Man and the Son of God. He's
fully Son of Man, fully the Son of God, and He's gonna be glorified,
and He's talking about what He would do at the cross as the
Son of Man. And as the Son of Man, He is
the one Son of Man. We're all sons of men. That's
what we all are. The only man other than Christ
that was not a son of man was Adam. But we're all sons of men. But Christ here is the one Son
of Man, representing all God's elect sons of men. And so what He's doing, this
is what all His people are doing. That's why He's referring to
Himself as the Son of Man. He is the image of God, and He
is the firstborn, meaning of every creature, meaning Adam
was created in Christ's image as the son of man. How that can
be, and yet he hadn't taken a body, I don't know, but that's what
it says. Colossians 1.15 says, he's the
image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature.
He's that man who God saw as perfect, and he patterned Adam
after him. How so? He gave Adam dominion
over all things. He put him in a perfect world,
gave him dominion over all things, made him lower than the angels,
gave him dominion over all things and Adam fell and he plunged
all mankind into sin and we lost that image and we lost that dominion. We don't have dominion over everything
now like we did in the garden. We lost it because of sin and
the curse. But Christ came to reclaim that,
and He's the one who's the perfect man. Go to Hebrews 2. Hebrews
2. Listen to this. He's the last Adam, and through
the cross, He's the captain of our salvation. our victorious
Redeemer. Now look here, Hebrews 2, 5.
Unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come. There's a world coming that's
going to be put in subjection. Just like the first world was
made and it was put in subjection to Adam, there's a world coming
that's going to be put in subjection. Not to angels though, but one
in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou
art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou
visitest him? Now he's speaking of Christ here
as the Son of Man, the last Adam. Look, thou madest him a little
lower than the angels. That word there doesn't mean,
it doesn't mean to be created lower. It means to come down
lower from a higher place. And that's what Christ did. He
came down as the Son of Man, lower than the angels. But thou
crownest Him with glory. This is what Christ is referring
to. Now is the Son of Man glorified. You crowned Him with glory and
honor, and it set Him over the works of thy hands. Thou hast
put all things in subjection under His feet. For in that He
put all in subjection under Him, He left nothing that's not put
under Him. But now, we see not yet all things
put under Him. We don't see it that way right
now, do we? We don't see that all things are in subjection
under Christ right now. It doesn't appear that way to
us by the way things are going on in the world and in our lives
and what have you. But look, but now we see Jesus. We do see him by faith who was
made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death.
We see him crowned with glory and honor that he by the grace
of God should taste death for every elect son of man. That's
what it should say. For it became him, God the Father,
for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, and bringing
many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation,
that's Christ, perfect, consecrated through sufferings. For both
he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one,
for which shame he's not ashamed to call them brethren. saying,
I declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the church while
I sing praise unto thee. Again, I put my trust in him.
Again, behold, I and the children which God hath given me. That's
the every son of man he's talking about. Those the Father gave
him. And so, since the children were flesh and blood, he took
part of the same. That's why he was made lower
than the angels. That's why he came down. To destroy him that
had the power of death, that is the devil, and delivered them,
who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to
bondage. He didn't take the nature of angels, he took on him the
nature of Abraham, the seed of Abraham. So in all things it
behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might
be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to
God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people, and for
that he himself is the son of man, he's been tempted He's able
to succor, comfort them that are tempted. So this is why the
Lord Jesus is referring to himself as the Son of Man. He was made
lower than the angels. You know, Adam was put in a perfect
world and had given dominion automatically over everything.
Christ came lower than the angels in a sin-cursed world, walked
through this world to accomplish God's will and go to the cross
and fulfill the law. And then a sin crowned with glory
and honor and then all things will be put under his feet. It
was a whole lot different than how Adam was made. Adam was made
perfectly and then sin and fail. Christ came and undid everything
Adam did for his people. And it took that cross and this
is the glory he's talking about. Going to the cross, he fulfilled
the righteousness of the law by his love. He loved God and
he loved his people perfectly. It took laying down His life
for both, and that's what He did. By faith we see Him, the
Son of Man, bearing all our sins and bearing our condemnation
so that He satisfied justice for us completely. That's what we see. He reconciled
us to God. He made peace with God for His
people. His people have peace with God
because of what He did. We see our sanctifier. He's one
with us and we're one with Him. This is an amazing thing. He
said, I'm not ashamed to call them brethren. These brethren
are going to sin. They're going to sin and sin
and sin and do things that don't even look like they believe Him.
He said, I'm not ashamed to call them brethren. How can that be?
Because it's not about our righteousness. It's about His righteousness.
He made us righteous. That's how. So now is the Son of Man glorified.
He's telling them not to, when they see this cross and the shame
and the spitting and hear the derogatory remarks and the reproach
He's going to bear for their sakes, don't look at it as how
the world looks at it. Behold it as Christ's glory.
And when you suffer, Don't look at it like the world looks at
it, like the flesh looks at it. Look at it as God showing you
Christ's glory and glorifying himself in you, but making you
stand. Because that's what it is. Now secondly, let's see God's
glory. It says, and God is glorified
in him. The triune God is glorified in
the Son of Man. The triune God, God the Father,
Son, and Spirit glorified in Christ. He is the Son of God. He's the Son of Man, the Son
of God, but the whole triune Godhead is glorified in the Son. Listen to this from Isaiah 44,
23. He said, he's speaking to Christ,
and he says, seeing Christ is Israel. You know, He's Israel.
He's the one Son of Man, named Israel, representing all is elect
Israel. And he said, sing, O you heavens, for the Lord hath done
it. Shout, you lower parts of the earth. Break forth into singing,
you mountains, O forests and every tree therein, for the Lord
hath redeemed Jacob and glorified himself in Israel, in Christ. God was glorified in Christ.
He said, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. That's why he sent Christ forth.
The whole of our salvation is for the glory of God. We're not
gonna get any. We're not going to get any, but
He's going to get it all. Now on the cross, each person
of the Godhead is glorified. We see God's name in Christ on
the cross. His name is Elohim. That's His
name. It means to worship. And the
only way we worship God is worshiping the Son. That's the only way.
Christ said, He that believeth on me believeth not on me, but
on him that sent me. The only way to worship God the
Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, is to worship Christ. The only way. Christ is Jehovah
Hasenu, the Lord our Maker. We're going to see this in the
second hour. He creates his people. He created us the first time,
but he's going to create all his people anew in righteousness
and holiness for that new creation. All the workmanship of his hand
entirely. You realize that holiness is
not you doing something. That's not how you're made holy.
When you're born of God, that incorruptible seed creates just
like when a child is conceived in the womb. That child didn't
do anything to become a human. It was conceived. And that's
how a holy, new holy man is conceived by the incorruptible seed within
these bodies of death. He doesn't get more holy. He's
just growing in grace and knowledge of Christ, that Christ is his
holiness and his righteousness. He's Jehovah Jireh, the Lord
will provide. He is God providing himself a
lamb. That's who we see there on the
cross, the Lamb of God. God being glorified for providing
Him. He's Jehovah Nisi, the Lord,
our banner. What's our banner? Our banner
is the flag we wave, what we take glory in. We know we call
our flag Old Glory. Well, our glory is Jehovah Nisi,
the Lord, our banner. Christ and Him crucified, risen,
reigning, victorious. That's our banner. And that's
how God's glorified. That's God in Him. He's Jehovah
Rapha, the Lord that healeth thee. God did that. He sent His
Son so that with His stripes we're healed. He's Jehovah Shalom,
the Lord our peace. What does it say? God was in
Christ reconciling His people unto Himself, not imputing our
trespasses to Him. We have peace with God by God
sending His Son to work peace for us. That's how God's glorified. He's Jehovah-Raya, the Lord our
shepherd. He's Jehovah-Um-Kadesh, the Lord
that doth sanctify you. God was in Christ and Christ
said, and I've sanctified myself that they might be sanctified.
It means He separated Himself and He worked the will of God
by the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ one time. Because by one offering, He's
perfected forever them that are sanctified. Everybody the Father
separated into Him in election, Christ separated and made holy
by His blood, justifying us, perfecting us, and the Spirit
of God separates us unto Him in the new birth and keeps us
separated unto Him. Jehovah Shema, the Lord is there,
that was God on the cross. God on the cross, the triune
God on the cross. He's the fullness of the Godhead
bodily, and He was on the cross. God is there, and He's risen,
and He promises, I'll never leave you nor forsake you. And it's
because of Christ that God is there. He's Jehovah Sidkenu,
the Lord, our righteousness. God's provided righteousness.
He requires perfect righteousness. Not a pretended righteousness,
not the best you can do, not how that you've been sincere
since God called you and you've tried your best and you just
hope God will make up the difference. No, you've got to be absolutely
as righteous as God is. And that means we're so unrighteous
because of sin mixed with us, that if we look to ourselves,
we don't have any at all. Our righteousness is seated at
God's right hand. If we learn that, that'll help
us. If we learn that, that'll help us. That's where humility
comes from. God's attributes were glorified
in the Son of Man. all his attributes. We see the
holiness of God. God didn't spare his son. That's
how strict he is in holiness. That's how perfect you have to
be. That when sin was found on his
son, God in strict justice poured out wrath on his son in place
of his people. We see God's sovereignty. God
didn't permit one person to touch our Lord Jesus Christ until the
hour got appointed. And when He allowed them to touch
Him, they did exactly what God purposed before to be done. That's
God's sovereignty. They did it. They sinned. They
did it because it was in their heart to do it. All God had to
do was take His hand off of them. They did just what they wanted
to do. That's what you and me both will do. And God, he worked
everything together so that they only did what he ordained before
to be done. But they did every bit of it.
That's sovereignty. Immutability of God. He said,
I'm God, I change not. When we fell in Adam, why didn't
he plunge us into hell right then? because of Christ. We're
going to look more at His immutability next hour. We see the forbearance
of God. This is His glory. His attribute
is being forbearing. How did God pass over the sin
of His saints from Adam all the way until Christ went to the
cross? How did He pass over their sins and receive them righteous
and holy? Listen to Romans 3.25. God has
set forth Christ to be a propitiation and atonement through faith in
His blood to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that
are past through the forbearance of God. It was His forbearance.
Christ is coming. Christ is their surety. So He
passed over their sin. We see the love of God in Christ.
And this was manifested, the love of God. Not that we love
God. He loved us. sent His Son to be the propitiation
for our sin. The faithfulness of God. He said,
I'm not alone. Christ said, you're going to
leave me, you're going to forsake me, but Christ said, I'm not
alone. The Father is with me. The Father is with me. We see
the wisdom and power of God. His wisdom and power to make
justice and mercy meet together in harmony. You know, men get
tired of hearing this gospel. They get sick of hearing it.
Tell me to do something. Tell me what I can do. We loathe
this light bread. But this is what Christ himself
first spoke to comfort his people when he saw them troubled. This
is it right here. Spoke of his glory. What did
you see? The first moment God gave you
faith, what did you see? You beheld the glory of God in
the face of Christ Jesus. It never gets old, never gets
old. He was glorified on the cross
because the Son of Man conquered all God's enemies on the cross
and all the enemies of God's people. He obtained eternal salvation
for us. He accomplished the eternal purpose
of God on the cross. That's how God's glorified. Now
let me show you one more thing. He said, and if God be glorified
in him, God shall also glorify him in himself in such a straightway
glorify him. This was what we read about Hebrews
2. Now we see Him lifted up. Lifted up. All things are put
in subjection under Christ's feet right now. Right now. He
is going to tell Peter here in a minute, I'm going to prepare
a place for you. And if I go prepare a place for
you, I will come again. And our Lord Jesus Christ went
to the cross, finished the work of redemption, finished the work
of making His people perfect, went to glory, He's in that new
world. And everything in this world
is under His feet. He's ruling everything. Now,
in Christ, the reason God glorified Him in Himself, this is what
Christ prayed for in John 17. He said, Father, glorify Me with
Thine own self, with the glory which I had with You before the
world was made. And this is what God did. Why did He do it? Because
in the Son of Man, without any help from He didn't have a mediator,
it was just him. What does God require? What's
the perfect son of man? What did God make man for? Here's
the perfect son of man, the only one, the only man who ever did
this. The only one. Here's what God
created him for. created man for, to live in perfect
righteousness. That's what Christ did as a man. To glorify God, that's what Christ
did. We're going to see as we go through
here, Christ never said any of the works were His. The Word
was not His. He said that He's waiting on
the Father to draw His people. He believed the Father that He
would draw all that He had given Him. Even when He went to the
cross, He's praying to the Father to save Him. And the last words
out of His mouth was, Father, into Thy hands come in I, my
spirit. He glorified God from beginning
to end and gave Him the glory for everything. He said, it's
not me that works these works, it's God working in me. And the
third thing is, He created man to have dominion, complete dominion
over God's creation. Well, Adam messed that up. He
fulfilled God's purpose in it. He totally failed in it. But
God ordained for him to fail so that he could send forth his
son and his son could live in righteousness, glorify God, and
God glorify him and lift him up and give him perfect dominion
over everything as the glorified son of man. And that's who he
is. He's the fully Son of God and
fully the Son of Man, seated at God's right hand. It says,
It says, He raised Him from the dead, set Him in His right hand
in heavenly places, far above all principality and power and
might and dominion and every name that's named, not only in
this world but also in that which is to come, and hath put all
things under His feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things
to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him that filleth
all in all. This is why Christ said to those
on the road to Emmaus, and this is what He was saying to them
before He went to the cross. He said, Ought not Christ to
have suffered? and enter into His glory. This
is what the Father promised Him. This was the joy set before Him. And God glorified Him with Himself.
He gave Him the glory He had with Him before the world was
made. And so He said this, right now, He's going to show us as
we go through these verses, on through the rest, as we look
at other times at this, we're going to see. We're going to
see that He's glorified in those that are His, by what He's working
in us. He prayed in John 17, He said,
All mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I'm glorified in
them. Now, if He's going to be glorified
in us, it's going to be the same way the Father was glorified
in Him. He's going to work all the works. And He's going to
make us know He worked all the works. So when we start boasting
about our will and what we're willing to do and what we can
do, like Peter did right here and next, there's another will
that's gonna be spoken of. The Lord, he's gonna say, Peter,
what you will do is deny me. But then he's gonna say, but
I will come again. That's the will by which we're
gonna be saved, the will of our Lord. He's gonna call His people
from all the nations. God said, Behold, thou shalt
call a nation thou knowest not, nations that knew not thee shall
run to thee, because the Lord God, God, for the Holy One of
Israel, for He hath glorified thee. He's lifted you up, given
you the grace to do all this work in air. He said, Thy people
shall be all righteous. all righteous, I mean perfect
righteous, all righteous, they shall inherit the land forever,
they shall be the branch of my planting, the work of my hands,
that I may be glorified. He said, I came to appoint unto
them that mourn in Zion, beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for
mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of happiness,
that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting
of the Lord, that he might be glorified. So, this is why He
said to them there in John 14, let not your heart be troubled.
You believe in God, believe also in Me. I'm going to do this work
right now. And when I finish this work,
I'm coming again for you. He's going to tell them. He came
in body again to them. But He's also going to tell them,
I'm going to send the Spirit to you. And you know what the
Spirit's going to do when He comes? He's not going to speak of Himself.
Christ said, He's going to glorify Me. It's all about His glory. He said, here is the Father glorified
that you bear much fruit. And Christ said, sir, I'm going
to work the fruit in you. What about when you deny him
like Peter did? That was all part of what it
took to work fruit in Peter. Peter, you go read Peter's epistle.
He wouldn't have wrote that epistle if he hadn't have gone through
what he went through. God didn't set you up, start
you running, and you just little Mr. and Ms. Holy from then on
and no problems. He said, you're going to have
to go through much tribulation. And he said, in this world, that's
all you're going to have. But why? Why? He said, in me
you might have peace. That's what He's showing us.
Now I know you wouldn't steal the glory that belongs to your
Lord, and I know you endeavor to glorify Him from the gospel
we preach to our everyday lives. But it's going to be by His power
working in us that He's going to bring glory to Himself. It's
going to be by His power. It's going to be Him keeping
us believing on Him and keeping us loving one another and doing
it in such a way that it's so obvious He worked it that we're
going to give Him the glory for it. Say He did it. He did it. and we're going to pass through
waters. He said we are. We're going to pass through fire,
but He said the waters will not overflow you and the fire will
not kindle upon you. How's that going to be? By His
glory. Everything's in subjection to
Him. When He sends the east wind, when He sends the rough wind,
He's going to stay it, the east wind, He's going to stay it with
His west wind. He's going to stop it right at
the point it needs to be stopped. When our feet become defiled,
How are we going to be washed? He didn't say a word to them.
They didn't have a clue what He was doing. He just bent down
and washed their feet. That's what He's going to do
for His people. That's His glory. That's His glory. He's going
to keep manifesting His life in us. That's what He's going
to do. Just what Paul said. We're dying every day that the
life of Christ might be manifest in us. How are you going to be
sitting here 25 years from now, worshiping the Lord? If you're
here, there's going to be one way. It's going to be Christ's
life in you. And in 25 years, you'll say,
that is so. If you don't say it now, I think
you say it now, but certainly say it then. Seeing the Father glorified in
our Lord, and our Lord glorified in the Father, we have this assurance.
He which hath begun a good work in you shall perform it until
the day of Jesus Christ. And just like the Father raised
Christ, He glorified Christ with Himself by raising Him to His
right hand. Glorified Him. And so Christ,
in the end, He's going to raise us and He's going to glorify
us in Himself. We're going to partake of His
glory. This is what He said, to him that overcometh. Remember
how He said you overcome? Through the blood of the Lamb.
Believe in Him. Trust in Him. Look only to Him. And he said, to him that overcometh
will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame
and am sat down with my father in his throne. How are we going
to overcome? He's going to say later, in this
world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have
overcome this world. That's how his people are going
to overcome it. And we're going to give him the glory. Amen. Let's go to him. Father, thank
you for this word. Thank you for the comfort we
have and beholding the glory of our Lord. Keep us looking
to him, Lord. All will be well. We ask you
glorify your name today. Glorify Christ before us and
we ask, Lord, that you would Make Your light to shine in our
hearts that we might see that glory as we hear the gospel preached. Thank You, Lord, that You're
ruling everything. Everything's in subjection under
You. And I'm thankful, Lord, You laid down Your life for us.
Help us continue to point one another to You and remind each
other everything You're working is just right on track according
to Your will and purpose. And You will bring good in Your
people and bring us through it, keep us together, and keep us
glorifying You. Lord, help us remind each other
that. In Christ's name we ask it. Amen.