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Well, I am thrilled for the new year and the potential there is as we orbit the sun again together.
If you were able to join us last week, we have rolled out a new vision for our faith family here at Fellowship.
That vision is that:
We exist to glorify God by making spiritually and relationally healthy disciples.
We do this through emphasizing 5 manifestations of the Gospel at work in your life.
Those 5 are:
Gospel-Centered Worship
Gospel-Centered Transformation
Gospel-Centered Relationships
Gospel-Centered Service
Gospel-Centered Outreach
Each of these we spoke briefly on, and hope you grabbed an explanation sheet last week and studied over it this week.
If not, there are a few left in the foyer.
We are embarking on a 12 week journey together developing this vision with clarity.
And we begin this morning with our mission:
We exist to glorify God by making spiritually and relationally healthy disciples.
Friend, the bible is clear - you exist to glorify God.
Now, that statement is a frequent one - especially in current church culture.
And although our lips are quick to say it, I am convinced that our hearts and minds have yet to be convinced.
So, today we aim to make it a matter of the heart and mind.
With the Bible as our sole authority, we look to God’s Word and ask for His clear direction in understanding and applying this mission intentionally.
Today, I’d like to look at three words: Glory, Discipleship, and Vision
Glory
In 1715, Louis XIV of France died.
Louis, who called himself “the Great,” was the monarch who made the infamous statement “I am the State!”
His court was the most magnificent in Europe, and his funeral was spectacular.
His body lay in a golden coffin.
To dramatize the deceased king’s greatness, orders had been given that the cathedral should be very dimly lighted, with only one special candle set above his coffin.
Thousands waited in hushed silence.
Then Bishop Massilon began to speak.
Slowly reaching down, he snuffed out the candle, saying, “Only God is great!
God’s “glory” is how we describe the sum effect of all of his attributes.
Grace, truth, goodness, mercy, justice, knowledge, power, eternality—all that he is.
Therefore, the glory of God is intrinsic, that is, it is as essential to God as light is to the sun, as blue is to the sky, as wet is to water.
You don’t make the sun light; it is light.
You don’t make the sky blue; it is blue.
You don’t make water wet; it is wet.
In all of these cases, the attribute is intrinsic to the object.
In contrast, man’s glory is granted to him.
If you take a king and take off all his robes and crowns and give him only a rag to wear and leave him on the streets for a few weeks, when put next to a beggar you’ll never know which is which.
Because there is no intrinsic glory.
The only glory a king has is when you give him a crown and a robe and sit him on his throne.
He has no intrinsic glory.
That’s the point.
The only glory that men have is granted to them.
The glory that is God’s is his in his essence.
You can’t de-glory God because glory is his nature.
You can’t touch his glory.
It cannot be taken away.
It cannot be added to.
It’s his being.
The most important concept is that of the glory of Yahweh.
This denotes the revelation of God’s being, nature and presence to mankind, sometimes with physical phenomena.
Scripture teaches:
Turn with me this morning to Isaiah 6: Here in Isaiah, we find the account of when he was called to be a prophet.
God comes to Isaiah through a vision, it’s important to note this is before the finishing of the revelation of God in His Word, and calls Isaiah to be a prophet for Him.
The intrinsic glory of God (the revealing of God’s nature, being and presence) brought Isaiah to recognize his own lowliness.
As the King of his day died, there was recognized a King of Kings.
And a proper view of God produces just that, reverence regardless of the day to day happenings.
The severity of Isaiah’s political unrest was interrupted by the presence of God in all of His glory.
And here we learn a valuable lesson, Earthly kings come and go, but God is King forever.
As our country stands in political and global unrest, we are reminded as the redeemed that God is King forever!
Think with me a moment this morning on GLory - the revealing of God in His nature, being and presence among us.)
God reveals His glory through Creation, through redemption, and through the redeemed.
He is constantly at work being gracious to the undeserving.
Yet He calls His creation to join Him in this process of revelation.
God is glory - and we are called to partner with him in by proclaiming that glory.
This is what we mean when we say we “Exist to glorify God.”
If Glory denotes the nature, being, and presence of God among us, then to glorify Him is defined as:
to make glorious, or cause so to appear.
Now, we don’t make God glorious, He is glorious.
Glory is an intrinsic reality of God.
However, we are called to come alongside His intrinsic nature and cause it to appear as it is - to cause Him to appear as He is.
ILL - Flashlight - stumbling over shoes in garage
The flashlight doesn’t produce the shoe.
It reveals what is already there, although not seen in the dark.
Jesus said in Matthew 5
Believer, the gospel has shown in on your need of Christ, you responded in repentance and faith, and now God brings you along in this partnership of Glory.
He has redeemed you from the darkness and has caused you to be a light - by living in a way that reveals what is already there - God in His Grace, truth, goodness, mercy, justice, knowledge, power, eternality—all that he is.
God is glorious - and He calls His creation alonside to reveal what is already true about Him.
To be lights in the darkness and glorify Him - to cause Him to appear as He is.
Now, the hard reality is we don’t always do this.
We proclaim with our mouths that God is glorious - that He alone deserves our praise and our all, but our minds and hearts have yet to be convinced - and it shows by how we act.
In fact, we have structured our lives to have glorying times and non-glorying times.
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But Paul says:
Glory - It is what God is.
Glory is the nature, being and presence of God among us.
And as His redeemed Creation, we exist to glorify - to reveal what is already true about Him in every area of our lives.
Now, we do this individually we corporately by making spiritually and relationally healthy disciples.
Discipleship
These disciples along with others like the apostle Paul then took this mission and began discipling others.
This emphasis is long term - training others to love GOd and love people.
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