The Father Glorified

Q: What does the Bible say about glorifying God?

The Bible teaches that glorifying God is central to the purpose of salvation and the mission of Jesus Christ. Glorifying God is a primary theme throughout Scripture, particularly exemplified in the prayer of Jesus in John 12:28, where He petitions, 'Father, glorify thy name.' This reflects the purpose of His mission on earth – to redeem sinners for the glory of God. In John 17:4, Jesus states that He has glorified the Father by completing the work assigned to Him. The purpose of our existence, therefore, aligns with this mission, as we are called to glorify God through our lives and actions, fulfilling the intent of our Creator.

Q: Why is glorifying God important for Christians?

Glorifying God is vital for Christians as it expresses our fulfillment of His perfect will and shows our gratitude for salvation. For Christians, glorifying God is not just an act of worship; it is the essence of our purpose. As seen in Isaiah 43:7, we were created for His glory. Every aspect of our lives, from worship to daily actions, should aim to reflect His glory. In doing so, we acknowledge Him as the source of our salvation and the ultimate authority in our lives. This aligns our hearts with God’s desires, drawing us into a closer relationship with Him. As we fulfill this calling, we participate in His divine plan, ultimately leading to eternal glory together with Christ.

Q: How do we know that God is glorified through Jesus' sacrifice?

We know God is glorified through Jesus' sacrifice because it satisfied divine justice and displayed His holiness and love. The glorification of God through Jesus' sacrifice is revealed at the cross. Jesus' statement, 'It is finished' (John 19:30), signifies the completion of His redemptive work, allowing God's justice to be satisfied. Our sins incurred a penalty that required payment, which Jesus fulfilled, demonstrating the profound holiness of God. Additionally, Romans 5:8 captures the essence of God's love manifested in Jesus' sacrifice, showing that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. This act not only glorifies God's justice and love but also exemplifies how His purpose is rooted in redemption. Thus, God is ultimately glorified in the person and work of Christ.

Q: What does it mean that God will glorify His name again?

It means that God will continue to reveal His glory through ongoing works in the world and within His Church. God’s declaration that He has 'both glorified it and will glorify it again' (John 12:28) signifies that His glory is not a one-time event but a continuous unfolding. Throughout history, God glorifies Himself by revealing His character and attributes through miraculous works, preaching the gospel, and the transformation of lives. The promise of glorification is ultimately fulfilled in the resurrection and the ascension of Christ, as well as through the work of the Holy Spirit among believers. This ongoing glorification assures us that God is actively involved in His creation, consistently bringing glory to His name as He saves and sanctifies His people.

Q: How should we respond to God's glory in our lives?

We should respond by living lives dedicated to His glory through worship, obedience, and service. In response to God's glory, Christians are called to display that glory in every aspect of their lives. This is articulated in Romans 12:1, where believers are urged to present their bodies as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God, which is our spiritual worship. Practically, this means engaging in acts of service, demonstrating love to others, and proclaiming the gospel. Moreover, our daily choices should reflect a desire to honor God above ourselves. In everything we do, from small tasks to significant decisions, we should ask ourselves if it glorifies God, ensuring we align our actions with His will.

The Lord would help me this afternoon and grant you prayer for attention. I've written you for a text you'll find in the portion of God's Word read, the Gospel according to John, chapter 12. I'm reading again at verse 27. The Gospel of John, chapter 12. I'm reading again at verse 27.

And now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it and will glorify it again. The people therefore that stood by and heard it said that it thundered. Others said, an angel spake unto him. And Jesus answered and said, this voice came not because of me, but for your sake. It is particularly to the first sentence in verse 28 that I want to direct your attention this afternoon.

Father, glorify thy name. Father, glorify thy name. This was the prayer of Jesus Christ in his hour of trouble. Father, glorify thy name. a mystery it is, that for this cause Jesus Christ came into the world, that we might know the Father and that the Father might be glorified in the midst of the Church. I've had to ponder that much over the past few weeks, but it is a question, why did Jesus Christ come into this world? He came into this world to save sinners, but He came into this world to save sinners. that there might be that people redeemed to glorify God forever and forever.

Jesus said in praying to his father in John 17, I finished the work that thou gavest me to do, and what was that work? I have glorified thee. On the earth I finished the work which thou gavest me 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. The whole of the work of salvation is, to this end, the glory of God.

That is what the Apostle tells us in writing to the Corinthians, the first epistle and the fifteenth chapter. We read there that he must reign, Jesus must reign, for he hath put all enemies under his feet. And the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death, for he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, All things are put unto him, it is manifest that he is accepted, which did put all things unto him. That is the Father. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him, the Father, that put all things unto him, that God may be all in all.

And the apostle again takes up this in the epistle to the Philippians and in the a second chapter, there, where he says, speaking of Jesus, and he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name, that, at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. This is the work of Jesus Christ.

Father, glorify thy name. Father, glorify thy name. Oh, that God might be glorified here this afternoon. Oh, we've come to an anniversary service. And what have we come? To give the place the glory? To give the church the glory? To give Jesus Christ the glory? Oh, friends, I hope so. But oh, The end of Jesus Christ is this, that the Father might be glorified, that God might be glorified.

May that be our concern here this afternoon, that God might be glorified. That we might know that experience of which Jesus referred to here, when Isaiah prophesied, Lord who hath, they could not believe, he hath blinded their eyes. Oh, these things spake Isaiah, he said, when he saw his glory. and spake of him in the year that King Uzziah died, when he entered into the Lord's house, and saw him high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple, and it brought him to say, Woe is me, a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips, but I receive that life coal from off the heavenly altar. God was glorified. Oh, that he might be glorified here this afternoon.

Father, glorify thy name. Well friends, first thing we want to notice, this is the prayer of Jesus in trouble. Now is my soul troubled and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour, but for this cause, came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. What was troubling the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ?

Now friend, were they not the same that we find in the Garden of Gethsemane when he prayed, Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but thy will be done. Though he was the creator of the earth, though he was before all things, and by him all things consist, though he was the light of the world, the eternal word, made flesh, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, oh, but he humbled himself and made himself of no reputation.

Friends, the weakness known by the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. That God should send an angel to strengthen him in the Garden of Gethsemane. Friends, a mystery which we cannot begin to enter into. But there is the Eternal Son of God in our nature, strengthened by one of His creatures, strengthened by an angel. Friends, would our salvation rest upon the sufferings of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Oh, he speaks of the hour of Satan coming. Oh, friends, he was grappling with the powers of darkness. And if we know something of the power of Satan, if we know something of the blackness, the darkness there is in Satan. Oh, here was the Lord of life and glory in our nature, facing the hour of Satan, facing that hour of darkness.

Friends, here is one who knew the holy righteousness of God, who knew that God can in no wise acquit the guilty, but visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and to the fourth generation. Friends, he who knew no sin was to be made sin for us, to be our sin bearer. As he stands before the holiness of God, and now is my soul troubled, And what shall I say?

Friends, here we find the reality of the Incarnation. The evidence that Jesus Christ is the Word made flesh. He knew what weakness meant. Touched with the feeling of our infirmities. Tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin. And what is his great burden?

That the Father's name might be glorified. that he might not fall short in that work, that he might not fail in that work, that that weakness might not overwhelm him, that the devil might not triumph, that the divine justice of God might be satisfied, and thus that he might receive that glory.

Father, glorify thy name. Oh, he prays to his father, glorified by name. His father replies, then came there a voice from heaven saying, I have both glorified it and will glorify it again. What does this response mean? Our friend God had glorified himself, his name, in sending his own dear son into this world. Oh, he has glorified him, the person of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Those miracles declared who He was from whence He came. He'd been glorified by the ministry of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as He went forth preaching. For instance, He declared the name of the Father. He declared who God was unto His disciples as He confesses there in John 17 that He had declared then His name.

I have manifested Thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world, of thine they were, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word." Our friends, God had been glorified in the ministry of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. And He glorified Him in the keeping of the Holy Law, the Lawgiver, the One that had given the Law glorified, in the magnifying of the Law and the making of it honourable. God had been glorified in the life and ministry of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Ah, friends, God owns that glory. Oh, God owns the work of His own dear Son. Oh, I have both glorified it. And He says, and will glorify it again. Oh, how is the Father glorified? How is the Father glorified? That's where we chiefly want to come this afternoon. How is the Father glorified? How is this prayer answered? Father, glorify thy name. I have both glorified it and will glorify it again. The Father is glorified in the completion of that work upon the cross at Calvary. It is finished. Father, into thy hand I commit my spirit. And he gave up the ghost.

There upon the cross at Calvary, our friends, we have Now that revelation of God, in his righteousness and in his holiness, he can in no wise acquit the sinner. No, every sin must be paid for. Oh friends, would you know this afternoon that God is a righteous God. It's to be seen there in the cross at Calvary. No escape for the sinner. No, he put to grief his own dear son, in order to pay the price of the broken law, the weight of the sin is dead. And our friends, no acquittal. The price must be paid.

Why? Because God is a righteous God. God is a holy God. Oh, where is it in the Bible that you see the greatest glory of God's righteousness and God's holiness? And our friends, it is not there. In the hiding of His face. In the darkness experienced by the Son of God. In our nature. In the cry upon the cross at Calvary. My God, my God. Why hast thou forsaken me?

In the fact, O that he, the Lord of life and glory, suffered, bled and died, in order to satisfy divine justice. In this is the righteousness of God made known. In this is the holiness of God benefits. In this the Father is glorified. O friends, what a glory! Oh, that we might rightly tremble at that glory this afternoon. Friends, that we might be filled with holy awe. The glory of God. Friends, it is a great thing. It is an awful thing. It is a holy thing. Oh, have you seen that glory?

Friends, it will expose your sins. It will reveal in you, that in you, that is in your flesh, there dwelleth no good thing that from head to foot, wounds, bruises, and putrefying sores. That's what the glory of God revealed to Isaiah, taught him, a man of unclean lips. And I dwell among a people of unclean lips. Oh, friends, if you've seen the Father's glory, you will not think lightly of sin. You will not sin cheap. Father, glorify thy name. I will glorify it again. Now, friends, there is holiness.

His righteousness revealed upon the cross of Calvary. But His name? Oh, friends, the grace of God, the mercy of God, the love of God also manifests there. Oh, the provision God made for sinners in the purse of His own dear Son. The Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. Oh, friends, what a a glory is revealed there. There is forgiveness with thee, thou mayst be feared. If thou, Lord, shouldst mark iniquity, who shall stand? Oh, the Lord of light and glory crucified for the sins of his people. But there is forgiveness with thee, thou mayst be feared. Now, friends, this is a place, you see, where, as the Psalmist speaks of it in the 85th Psalm, and truth are met together, righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Glorious in the cross at Calvary or in the finished work of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. I have glorified it and will glorify it again. That glory there made known unto us as Paul tells us in the fifth chapter of the Romans, but God commended His love toward us. in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Friends, the glory of the love of God made known there.

In the 16th chapter of John, Jesus says this. He says that, that day you shall ask in my name. Sorry, but I shall show you plainly of the Father, that day you shall ask in my name. And I say not unto you that I will pray the Father for you, for the Father himself loveth you." Oh, friends, that's what Jesus says. He will show them plainly of the Father. And what will He show them? That the Father himself loveth you.

Oh, where is the love of God? To you, poor soul, to be seen but there in the cross at Calvary. Oh, He spared not His own dear Son for you. But He sent Him into this world for God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. There is the love of God made known. He gave His own dear Son. It pleased the Lord to bruise Him, to crucify Him, upon the cross at Calvary.

Now, friends, have you seen the Father's love? Have you beheld the glory of the Father's love? Now, friends, have you been taught this lesson at the cross at Calvary, I will show you plainly of the Father. And what has the cross shown you plainly of the Father? What has the death of Jesus Christ shown you plainly of the Father? Oh, friends, has it shown you this? The Father himself loveth you. Oh, friends, what a glorious God. What a glorious Father.

He who cannot look upon sin with any degree of lenience, he who can in no wise acquit the sinner. But he loves his people with such a great love that he gives his only son for them. He sends him into this world. He bruises him upon the cross at Calvary.

That you, a poor sinner, all might be for his glory, redeemed by Jesus' precious blood, redeemed to be taken to glory. a long eternity to spend in singing God is love. Now friends, in this, the Father is glorified. The death of Jesus Christ upon the cross of Calvary, I have both glorified it and will glorify it again. Now there, Jesus was to glorify His Father. In that death upon Calvary's cross, that cry, It is finished. Father, into thy hand I commit my spirit. God was glorified. Oh, have you ever seen that glory, Father, glorify thy name?

And then as we read there in John chapter 16 again, we find, oh, that glory is associated with the giving of the spirit. Oh, when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth, for he shall not speak of himself. But whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak, and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me, for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you, all things that the Father hath of mine. Therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you.

Ah, friends, the blessed Spirit shed forth upon the church the day of Pentecost. Oh, the blessed Spirit which flows from the death of Jesus upon the cross at Calvary, he hath ascended up on high, and received gifts of men, yea, for the rebellious also. If you know anything of the work of the Holy Spirit in your soul this afternoon, ah friends, will it not abort you too, the glory of God in the person and work of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ? Ah friends, do we know anything of the Spirit if we have not been bought to fear Him? if we have not been brought to love Him. Oh, that is the work of the Spirit, to convince of sin and to lead to Jesus' blood.

Oh, friends, there to see the Father's glory in the death of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Oh, to be brought, lost in wonder, love and praise, to glorify His name, Father, and glorify Thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven saying, I have both glorified it and will glorify it again. And then, friends, we must consider this glory. The Father is glorified in the glory of the Son. The Father is glorified in the glory of the Son.

I believe we would not be wrong this afternoon to read this name, Father, glorify thy name. as not just being the name of the Father, but being the name, the manifestation of the Father, the way by which the Father is made known unto us, the person of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Now friends, if the Father had glorified the Son, He'd glorified Him there, at His baptism, this is my beloved Son, in whom I'm well pleased. He'd glorified Him upon the Mount of Transfiguration, this is my beloved Son, hear ye Him. he had glorified him oh he had given him that glorious name thou shalt call his name Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins he was going to glorify it again now give him a name which is above every other name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God now friends it is in of thee ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ and His end, that second entrance of Jesus Christ into heaven with His church, with His people.

The glory that God gave to Him before the foundation of the world, the church to be His portion. Father glorify me, He says. That God should be glorified throughout the ages of eternity, without end. Jesus, with His Church, ye are complete in Him. Oh, that glory there that shall redound unto the Father for an eternity to come. Father, glorify Thy Name.

This is how the Father is glorified in the personal work of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Now, friends, is He glorified in you? this afternoon. Is He glorified in you? Is this your concern? Father, glorify my name. This was the concern of the head of the church. What of the body? What of the body?

Our friends, this is the work that Jesus has given to glorify the Father. Oh, is this not the work that the church has given to glorify the Father? Oh, by glory in the For he that hath the Son hath the Father also, as John tells us in his second epistle. Friends, does your worship here, as you seek to glorify the person and name, the finished work of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, culminate in this note, the glory of the Father?

Friends, who gave you your Saviour? Who made that salvation for you? Who loved you with that everlasting love and elected you and chose you in Christ? Friends, who was it who proposed that salvation in the Garden of Eden and gave that glorious promise, I will put enmity between thee and the seed of the woman? Or was it not the Father?

God shall provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. Abraham saw Christ, he saw that glory and he rejoiced, he believed in God. It was counted unto him for righteousness. Now, our friends, what is the origin of your salvation this afternoon? Oh, we must look up to the fountain, to the one who sent the Son, to the one who gave the Son. That's where the glory ultimately must be, in the midst of the church. And therefore this should be the prayer of the church.

Father glorify thy name. Father glorify thy name. Oh, that as he has been glorified in the death, the resurrection, the ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ, that he may continue to be glorified in the church by the Holy Spirit. Oh, world without end. Friends, is it our concern that God might be glorified in us, that God might be glorified in the Church. Psalm 22, that glorious Psalm concerning the person and work of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ upon the cross at Calvary.

As he speaks there concerning his sufferings, beginning with that prophetic saying, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Friends, being delivered, Oh, as we read that he cried there, and he was hurt. He was hurt. Oh, as he was saved from the lion's mouth, it brought him to this.

Verse 22, I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation while I praise thee. That is Jesus speaking concerning his father. I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation while I praise thee. He says to the church, ye that Fear the Lord, praise him. O ye, the seed of Jacob, glorify him and fear him. O ye, the seed of Israel. For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and neither hath he hid his face from him. But when he cried unto him, he heard.

My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation. I will pay my vows before them that fear him. This is the instruction of Jesus Christ to the church, that his father might be glorified. He stands in the midst of his church to praise his father. I will sing of thee in the midst of the great congregation. I will praise thee.

Friends, have you known what it is? You gather together to glorify God in praise. He's promised where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I will be in the midst of them. For it is the end of your praise, which you have sung together here during another year. I will glorify thee, I will praise thee. Oh, the end of our worship. And we gather together every time we come into the Lord's house to this end, the glory of God. This is what Jesus says to the Church.

Glorify Him. Ye that fear the Lord, praise Him. O ye the seed of Jacob, glorify Him and fear Him. O ye the seed of Israel. That fear which speaks of true worship. Not the fear that we should be shrinking from Him. But the fear which we have already quoted are there in the Psalms. If thou, Lord, shouldst mark iniquity, who should stand?

But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared." Ah, friends, forgiveness, and not to be shied away from, not to hang back from, but forgiveness that he might be praised, that he might be glorified, that he might be all in all, that he might be rightly had in reverence. Oh, do you know something of that this afternoon? Ah, friends, do you know what it is to glorify him? in the church, because He is your God, your Saviour, your all in all, and to Him must the glory be.

Ye that fear the Lord, praise Him. O ye the seed of Jacob, glorify and fear Him. O ye the seed of Israel. Now, friends, the grounds to glorify Him, for He hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted. and neither hath he hid his face from him when he cried unto him he heard.

Friends, the death of the Lord Jesus Christ received. That's the ground of praise, isn't it? That's the ground to glorify the Father. Jesus crucified upon the cross at Calvary, but that sacrifice received. Received on behalf of his sinners. Sinners set free. our precious fountain opened up for sin and for uncleanness. Oh, that God might be glorified.

And our friends, has He heard you? Oh, have you had to come to Him afflicted? Have you had to come to your Holy God, your Holy Father and plead for Jesus Christ's sake? Now, our friends, it is there at the cross that we find the grounds to go with boldness unto our Father which is in heaven. Oh, to plead for Jesus Christ's sake. It's there that we see, as Jesus said, that the Father loves us. Now, friends, that's the only way, you see.

And he's hurt. Oh, has he heard your prayers during another year? Afflicted, brought low, minished, brought low, perhaps often in a low place, seemingly surrounded by enemies, trouble. Oh, the fact that without Him you can do nothing. Oh, friends, what an affliction that is. Oh, if you had to prove as you've gathered here to worship the solemnity of that truth, without me you can do nothing. Oh, friends, the Word, but no power, except He bless. Oh, we can gather in His house, but except He draw us, there's no running. Oh, friends, we may are gathered together but except He is found in the midst. There's no burning of heart.

Oh, the affliction that the Lord's people feel. Their need of Him in everything. And their need of Him. Oh, that they might be unable to worship Him and to glorify Him aright. But has He heard? Ah, friends, He heard your hard-hearted prayers. Has He heard? of those cries, as you found yourself feeling dead and feeling unable to do anything, Lord help, for Jesus Christ's sake and his hurt.

Oh, if you glorified him. Ah, friends, then your worship has been real worship. Then your songs have been songs of praise. Ah, friends, then your prayers, you're certain of it. They've entered into the ears of the Lord God of Surveillance. You've gone to your house justified. O praise Him, glorify Him, for He hath not despised, nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither hath He hid His face from Him, but when He cried unto Him, He heard.

Ah, friends, your sins. Oh, the affliction of sin. Ah, friends, how that brings us love. Oh, we seem to only add sin to sin. O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of sin and death? But have you had to come in here and cry, God be merciful to me of sin? Ah, friend, have you had to come in here and plead? You might know once more that fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness.

Ah, you cannot take away your sin, and your grief, your burden long has been that you cannot cease from sin. But brought there Ah, friends, to see the glory of God. Oh, in the person of Jesus Christ, in His sufferings, upon the cross of Calvary, your sins are gone. Blotted out as a thick cloud, all your transgressions, removed as far as from the East as from the West, and being justified, you have peace with God. Ah, friends, glorify Him. Oh, praise Him. Praise Him. Ye that fear the Lord, praise him, for he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither hath he hid his face from him, but when he cried unto him, he heard.

Oh, friends, those needs in Providence that you may have come into the Lord's house with over the past year, your personal needs, perhaps the needs of the church here, the needs of the building here, great needs, neither know we what to do, but our eyes are up unto thee. But, oh, friends, are you coming and had to plead, according to the promise, my God shall supply all your need, according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Now, friends, what glory that is to be brought to see his riches in glory, all things his, for all things are yours, and he are Christ, and Christ is God's. Now, friends, has any need been too great? Has any impossibility been too hard? And it's all through this, for Jesus Christ's sake. For Jesus Christ's sake, by Christ Jesus. Now, friends, he heard your cry.

Glorify him. Glorify him. Now, Jesus gives the grounds whereby we should glorify him this afternoon. Oh, has he heard your cry? Now, friends, he brought you love. You cried unto him. Oh, the 107th Psalm, as it opens, he sings, and speaks of those various states into which the Lord's people have brought them, they cried unto Him in their distress. Oh, friends, He heard them. He heard them.

He delivered them. Whatsoever their condition was, whatsoever their state was that they were brought into, in all those various conditions, and they cried unto Him in their trouble. Oh, He saved them out of their distresses. And where did it bring them to? Oh, that men would praise the Lord for His goodness. and for he is wonderful works to the children of men. Glorify him. Glorify him.

My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation. I will pay my vows before them that see him. I will pay my vows before them that see him. Friends, have you got a vow to pay this afternoon? To put the crown in the right place. Ah, friends, to be enabled to confess to the honour and the glory of your God, He hath done great things for me. Ah, whereof I am glad. Wonderful things. Ah, friends, yes. Those answers to prayer, the provisions that He made, as He blotted out your sins. Ah, can sinners saved by grace, silent remain, asks William Gadsby, glorify Him. Oh, pay your vows.

Friends, be ready to confess what He's done to His honour and His glory. Is God glorified by a silent soul? Friends, is He glorified by one that never speaks, and never speaks of what He's done? Or does the soul that's not touched by grace say, come nearer ye that fear God, I will tell what He done for my soul. You want Him to be glorified?

And as we may consider the plan of those of us, our friends, those ordinances, the way in which God is glorified in the church. Yes, the preaching of the word, but especially those ordinances as the Lord's people may be brought to publicly participate in them, to give him the glory, to give him the glory, our friends, to be identified with the Lord Jesus Christ. to publicly profess, to publicly proclaim that the Lord has done great things for me.

He gave his own dear son to suffer and to bleed and to die for me. He's heard my cries. He's blotted out my soul, blotted out my sins. He saved my soul. I will pay my vows before them that fear him. Oh, glorify him, praise him. Friends, this is what Jesus says to the church. He who was crucified, and now risen again, and now ascended, as He sends forth His Spirit, He says to the church, praise Him. He says to the church, glorify Him.

Friends, it is a wonderful mystery, but this is still, I believe, the prayer of Jesus Christ in heaven this afternoon. that it was here in John chapter 12, Father, I glorify thy name. Now, friends, that is his concern this afternoon, that the name of God might be glorified, that he might be glorified in the salvation of his people on earth, that he might be glorified in the gathering of the church, that he might be glorified in our worship this afternoon. Oh, friends, our worship will be in vain except this afternoon. We've been remembered by a great high priest above, and he's making intercession for us, and his intercession is running along these lines. Father, glorify thy name.

Bless the word unto them. There may be those testimonies to thine honour and my glory. The Lord hath done this. The Lord hath done this. Oh Father, glorify thy name. glorify thy name. Father, I will these also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am.

They may behold my glory. Friends, that's the end you see, isn't it? That we should be gathered in one, with Him, to be with Him forever and forever, to glorify Him. This people have I formed for myself. They shall show forth my praise. Friends, what is the end of these saints in glory? when our worship of Him is done here, to enter there into heaven, to worship Him forever and forever, to praise Him, to glorify Him. Now, my friends, it is to Him that glory will be. There will be no room for any other glory in heaven, no room for any other glory. But our glory will be this, to glorify Him and to praise Him forever and forever. And to this end, Jesus' prayer is still further.

Glorify thy name. Glorify thy name in the calling of thy people. Glorify thy name in the justifying of thy people. Glorify thy name in the sanctifying of thy people. In the adopting of thy people. That we might know thee, witness of the Spirit, bear in witness with our spirit that we are the sons of God, and thus that we might cry, Abba Father, in this He is glorified.

O friends, are you had to glorify Him in that way, no more a stranger or a guest, but like a child at home, My Father, My Father. O friends, is that how you want to glorify Him this afternoon? My God, My Father, blissful Name, O may I call Thee Mine, may I with sweet assurance claim a portion so divine. Lord, for instance, glorify and buy thy sanctified life. Lord, is it your concern day by day? Is it that union with Jesus, Father, glorify thy name. Lord, use me as thou wilt. Help me to know thy will. Give me grace to know thy will. Grace to do it. Help me to do all things to thine honour and to thy glory.

Oh, you know, friends, that it might be a burden with us this afternoon to live to the honour and the glory of God. That's what Jesus would have for the church. Father, glorify thy name. Is it a burden with you to live to the honour and the glory of God?

It struck me very much when I first regularly was found in Scotland to find how often their grace ran along these lines, scriptural lines, that they might eat and drink to the honour and the glory of God. Oh, friends, that's the Word of God. But it had not struck me before, oh, when we sit down to eat our food. Oh, friends, do we aim to eat and drink to the honour and the glory of God?

Do we do all things for His glory? The little things in life, oh, friends, are things that we may think nobody knows about, but God knows, therefore He is glory. woodcarver, of which it is reported that when he carved the wood for St George's Chapel Windsor, he carved not only what could be seen by man, but our friends, he carved that which is hidden from sight, which is never seen because God saw it, and it was for the honour and the glory of God.

And another dear soul who I once knew, who was a cleaner in the university, and one of our One of the members of our congregation knew her as a cleaner in the university and he said, she always surprised me. Oh, she spent all her time clearing up the rubbish, the mess that we made. And she never seemed to grow weary of it. And he asked her one day, why do you bother? The other cleaners are not as meticulous as you are.

She said, all must be done for his glory. Now, friends, oh, we would not diminish this afternoon the glory of God, but oh, to have that desire to glorify Him in the least things. Whatever He's given you to do, to preach the gospel to this end, glorify Him. Oh, friends, to clean the chapel, to open the chapel, to cut the chapel grass, to this end, to His glory. Oh, friends, in our families, to bring up our children, to nurture our mission in the Lord, to this end, to His glory. To care for those that He's given us, our husbands, wives, those that we're responsible to, to this end, His honour and His glory. Oh friends, how often we have to confess, if we rightly examine ourselves, our own glory has got in there, our own pride.

But Jesus said, Father glorify thy name. Oh friends, if there was one we would speak reverently and we would speak cautiously, but if there was one that had a right to say, Father, glorify me. Oh, is it not the person of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the perfect? Oh, the express image of the Father's glory. But he prays, Father, glorify thy name. Father, glorify thy name.

Oh, friends, that this might be our cry this afternoon, our burden. Oh, that it might be our concern as we gather for this anniversary occasion, and that it might be your concern Lord, as often as you gather during another year, and your burden as a church, Father, glorify thy name.

Now, friends, he's glorified, not in the way the world thinks. Now, friends, the Lord is glorified in that spiritual worship, in that spiritual way, God is spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. Now, friends, not in a building made with hands. and not by the labour of our hands. Our friends, ultimately, God is glorified, isn't he, in the upward lifting of an eye, the falling of a tear, the burden of a sigh when none but He is near. Our friends, the desire of God, the cry, the confession of sin, love, love within the soul too, the Lord's Christ, the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the love to Him, Our glorious God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Our friends, is He glorified? Is He glorified?

Is that your burden this afternoon? Father, glorify Thy Name. Glorify Thy Name. Oh, that He might be all in all. Oh, is that what we look forward to? Our friends, not when we will be glorified. We will be glorified. If we fear Him, if we are amongst those meek ones that we read of in Psalm 22, if we are amongst those ones who have seen the Father's glory, who know the Father, whom Jesus has declared His name unto us, and we have been brought to fear Him, brought to tremble before Him as a poor sin, brought to rest alone upon His mercy and His grace, that fact that the Father loved us, commended his love towards us and that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us then we will be glorified ah friends what a wonder that is to be glorified with him but ultimately ah friends is it his glory you want to see is it his glory you want to see the Lamb is all the glory in Emmanuel's land all the glory shall redound unto our great and holy God Ah, friends, if it is on this earth, not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name be the honour and the glory.

Oh, how much more so it will be above, and nothing there to come between, nothing there to detract from His glory. But He shall be glorified and glorious forever and forever. Father, glorify thy name. Oh, friends, what a blessed truth here the Father says. and will glorify it again.

I have both glorified it and will glorify it again. Oh, we come so far short in glorifying Him. Friends, how we fail in the preaching of the gospel, how we fail in the ministry of the church, how we fail in all that He gives us, fail to glorify Him as we ought. But He will get Himself the glory. I will glorify it again.

Our friend, He will not give His glory to another, He is a jealous God He will be glorified and He will see to it Our friend, what a mercy Lord, we have been brought this afternoon to ask Him to glorify His name in us Our willing to be nothing made submissive to His will willing to fall into His hands Our friend, willing to lay as it were all upon the altar But with this cry, Father glorify thy name.

Not my will, but thy will be done. That's where the Saviour was bought in glorifying the Father's name. Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me, nevertheless not my will, but thy will be done. Father, glorify thy name. Oh, not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name be the glory.

Now, friends, this is what we should be about. This is It should be the concern of the Lord's people. This is the desire, the prayer of the head of the church. Or it might be our cry, as the church, honour, father, glorify thy name. Or it might be glorified here, this afternoon, this evening, on this anniversary occasion. That he may have been glorified here during the past year and that he may be glorified here during another year. Oh, that all your worship services, that your life as a church might be bound up in this prayer this afternoon.

Father, glorify thy name. Glorify thy name in St. David's Bridge Chapel. Glorify thy name through the ministry of thy dear servant, the pastor. Glorify thy name through the life and witness of the people that make up the church and congregation here. And oh, what a mercy. if he should answer and say to that prayer this afternoon I have both glorified him and will glorify it again oh that we might see his glory and that he might put us in our right place and that he might be in his right place and that he might have all the praise father glorify thy name amen

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What does the Bible say about glorifying God?

Why is glorifying God important for Christians?

How do we know that God is glorified through Jesus' sacrifice?

What does it mean that God will glorify His name again?

How should we respond to God's glory in our lives?

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