Divine and human glory

Human glory in the creation

Human glory as God’s intention

Hebräer 2,6–7 ESV

It has been testified somewhere, “What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you care for him? You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor,

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People are created in God’s image

Genesis 5,1 ESV

This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

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Human beings have precedence over the rest of creation

Matthäus 6,26 ESV

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

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Human responsibility for creation

Genesis 2,19–20 ESV

Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.

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Human glory diminished after the fall

Römer 3,23 ESV

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

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Glory is restored to redeemed humanity by the death of Jesus Christ

Römer 8,30 ESV

And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

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Spiritual glory is divinely given

Johannes 17,22 ESV

The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,

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Glorification when Jesus Christ returns

Kolosser 3,4 ESV

When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

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The imperfect nature of human glory

1. Petrus 1,24–25 ESV

for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that was preached to you.

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Human glory is given and taken by God

Psalter 82,6–7 ESV

I said, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince.”

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The temporary nature of the glory of the wicked

Philipper 3,19 ESV

Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.

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The temptation associated with human glory

Matthäus 4,8–9 ESV

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”

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The uniqueness of God’s glory

God shows Job the impossibility of human beings attaining the perfection of God’s glory.

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God’s glory revealed to human beings

Exodus 24,17 ESV

Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel.

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Glory is not to be sought from other human beings but from God

Matthäus 6,2 ESV

“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

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It is a human duty to glorify God

Psalter 34,3 ESV

Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together!

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