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Introduction
Now we come to the response to these four Hallelujah choruses:
There are three responses to the Hallelujah's
Let us Rejoice
Let us be glad/exult
Let us Give the Glory to Him.
Why the above?
Because
The Wedding of the Lamb has come
and
It has been given to her
In order that
she be clothed with -
fine linen bright pure
For the linen is the righteousness of the Saints.
The response that is called for by the Lord to these four Allelouia's is that we would rejoice in kind to this praise.
This first part Rejoice and be glad is only used in one other place together in the NT.
where the cause for rejoicing is the heavenly reward for those who were persecuted for Christ.
Here is it realized by them.
the first, Let us rejoice/be glad- xairw- to rejoice, be glad, it is the feeling, inner experience of joy or gladness.
it is not a ho hum I might as well be happy sort of gladness like someone has to paste a smile on your face.
No this is an inward Joy that has to express itself in festal joy.
like a fisherman who has made a huge catch, .
john uses this word in where the friend of the bridegroom is said to "rejoice greatly at the bridegroom's voice."
Or the festal celebration of the harvest in .
The Psalms are full of expressions of this festal joy "Shout for joy in the Lord O you righteous!"
"Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!"
In again John uses the word to describe the joy the disciples should have when Jesus returns to the Father.
It means that Jesus is exalted to the right hand of the Father.
It is the joy Jesus speaks of in "These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full."
"Until now you have asked nothing in my name.
Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full."
In His prayer in Jesus prayed, "But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves."
We rejoice when our team wins the superbowl.
Or when we get really good news.
We want to let everyone know of our joy.
But that is very superficial in comparison to what John is expressing here.
One rejoices and celebrates exceedingly when they attain a mountain top accomplishment.
This far exceeds that.
In fact, our joy will be so full that it will bubble out of us uncontrollably.
Imagine the joy you will share when you are there participating in the marriage supper of the lamb.
It will be joy so exuberant that it is inexpressible today.
However, this joy will not be because you made it, but because of God.
It will not be a self centered joy, but God-centered.
We see that in the phrase "give glory to him."
How much more should we rejoice in Him.
All the direction of the praise is toward the Lord.
We join in that praise and joy and gladness.
Now the second response is closely associated with the first.
In fact, the two words are synonyms.
2. Let us be glad/exult
It is the word agalliomai - to leap for joy, to show one's joy outwardly, rejoicing with song and dance in teh LXX the word is used in various psalms, like
"May we shout for joy over your salvation,
and in the name of our God set up our banners!
May the LORD fulfill all your petitions!
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"But may all who seek you
rejoice and be glad in you;
may those who love your salvation
say continually, “Great is the LORD!”
"But the righteous shall be glad;
they shall exult before God;
they shall be jubilant with joy! "
In Jesus rejoices in the Holy Spirit that the Father has revealed his truths to his disciples.
And the Jailer in rejoices along with his entire household because they believed in God.
This word is associated primarily with the salvation acts of God.
Salvation is the primary theme of this word.
In his doxology, Jude states, "
Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,"
And Peter in
"But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed."
at the appearing of Christ's glory we will be glad.
You see to rejoice and be glad at the announcement and ratification of who God is as Savior, as Judge of the unrepentant, To see Him as God almighty, who reigns over all is to declare that you believe.
That you recognize Him for who He is.
It is to rejoice and be glad in what He rejoices in.
Those of us who fear Him praise Him.
So now we rejoice and are glad.
Which leads me to the third response;
3. Let us give glory to Him.
What does it mean to Give God glory?
The word glory/doxa means to think or suppose at its root.
The idea of recognizing the true value of something.
So to glorify God means to recognize the the true value of who he is.
Men glorify themselves and seek the glory of men as Jesus points out in , but God seeks glory, to be recognized as the God of all gods.
There is no other besides Him.
This is the aim of all that is in the universe.
Piper points out that God expects all humans to see the self-authenticating glory of God in the universe he created.
"the heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork" (Piper, Reading the bible supernaturally, p.20)
As he puts it we "should aim in all our seeing to savor his excellence above all things."
that is what Piper the concept of glorifying God is.
That we see the worth and beauty of God above all else in the universe.
It is to see God as supremely valuable.
In John confesses "The word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth."
In speaking of the turning water into wine he said "and manifested his glory.
and his disciples believed in him."
The raising of lazarus from the dead was akin to this, "Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God."()
In we see the glory of God expressed.
He sees God in all His holiness and then in v.5 he declares
"Woe is me!
For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!”
Isaiah Saw the Lord, Jesus pre-incarnate and believed.
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