Down From His Glory
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10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Title: Down From His Glory
Last week:
Began a four seek series based on some of the old songs…
Last week’s song was All in Him
This week: Down from His Glory - written in 1906 by E. Booth-Clibborn
Verse 1:
Down from His glory, Ever-living story,
My God and Savior came, And Jesus was His name.
Born in a manger, To His own a stranger,
A Man of sorrows, tears, and agony.
Chorus:
O how I love Him! How I adore Him!
My breath, my sunshine, My all in all!
The great Creator Became my Savior,
And all God's fullness Dwelleth in Him.
What a beautiful old song about a God who loved his creation so much that he stepped down from not only the beauty of heaven, but the glory of who he was to save his people!
We have difficulty understanding the word glory.
Bible dictionaries and lexicons use words like splendour, majesty and vigour to explain the word glory…
1 O Lord our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth! Who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
Moses prayed to see the Glory of God
18 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
This is very interesting because Moses and God had a special relationship…
Look at all the things that God had already shown him:
Spoke to him from burning bush
Spoke to him and convinced him with miracles to go back to Egypt and lead his people out
Miracles before Pharaoh
10 plagues
God makes them all rich
Red Sea parts
Egyptian army wiped out
Been on Sinai talking with God
NOT ENOUGH for Moses: I WANT TO SEE YOUR GLORY!
My current knowledge, experience with and of you IS NOT ENOUGH!
In a time when everyone is saved…
In a time when no one is thinking about eternity…
WE MUST THINK LIKE MOSES!
Verse 2:
What condescension, Bringing us redemption,
That in the dead of night, Not one faint hope in sight,
God, gracious, tender, Laid aside His splendor,
Stooping to woo, to win, to save my soul.
God robed himself in flesh to save us!
But when he came, no on new who he was!
Luke 2:7 (KJV 1900)
7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
NO ROOM: seemed to be the theme of His coming…
He was born in humility
Rejected by his own people
Humbled on a cross
Buried in a tomb he did not own
BUT HE CAME ANYWAY
All these generations later, it seems that the theme still holds… NO ROOM
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Jesus was born of Mary, and born of God.
Making him fully man and fully God!
The Contrast:
As a man he was tempted, as God he did not sin (1 Cor. 10:13, Heb. 4:15)
As God Jesus was omniscient, as a man he had to grow in wisdom and stature (Lk 2:40)
As a man he was weary, tired and hungry, as God he was omnipotent
As God is was omnipresent, as a man he was bound to his body
He could:
Sleep one minute and calm the storm the next minute
Speak as man one moment, as God the next
Verse 3:
Without reluctance, Flesh and blood His substance,
He took the form of man, Revealed the hidden plan.
O glorious mystery, Sacrifice of Calv’ry,
And now I know Thou art the great I Am.
John would start his gospel with this understanding…
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
No wonder that E. Booth-Clibborn course would say;
Chorus:
O how I love Him! How I adore Him!
My breath, my sunshine, My all in all!
The great Creator Became my Savior,
And all God's fullness Dwelleth in Him.
Conclusion: We MUST love and seek this God who left Glory for us!
Matthew, Mark and Luke all recorded Jesus as saying that we must love the Lord with all our heart, soul and mind!
The First Command
When we do the first command, the second is the natural next step…
Love your neighbor as yourself!
How do you love yourself?
Enough to make room for Jesus!
THEREFORE: you teach others to do the same!
We must make God a priority in our lives.
We must prioritize what HE prioritized.
Woman at the well:
Jesus prioritized her, loved her.
NOTE: disagreement is not hate
Jesus helped her in her sin…
She then runs to tell her story!
