The Glory of the Son

Hebrews 13:8 ESV

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

How is Jesus Christ the same? He took on flesh. That’s different. He went from infancy to manhood. That’s different. How is he the same?

He is God, the Son, the second member of the trinity. And the trinity is the one divine essence which has always been a singular true and living God who is three distinct persons.

But what else is different? Let’s answer that question this morning.

Our theme this morning is: Jesus Christ: equal in every way with the Father and the Holy Spirit but willingly subordinate to the Father

(1) Let me encourage you to understand that there is only one true and living God

1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV

yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

(2) Let me encourage you to look for the trinity throughout the Bible

Ephesians 4:4–6 ESV

4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

(3) Let me encourage you to see Jesus in all of his glory

Colossians 2:9 ESV

For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,

The fullness of the Son

John 1:1–5 ESV

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

The messenger of the Son

John 1:6–8 ESV

6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.

The salvation of the Son

John 1:9–13 ESV

9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

The glory of the Son

John 1:14–18 ESV

14 And 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. 15 (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’ ”) 16 For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.

Jesus has all the attributes, all the qualities, all the characteristics of God

God does not share his glory with anyone but the Son has glory

Isaiah 42:8 ESV

I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.

Hebrews 12:2 - fix your eyes on Jesus

While the Law came through Moses, it was Jesus who gave grace and truth. Not after but before during and after Moses. He is the same yesterday and today and forever.

He is the revealer of the Father and the Holy Spirit - he has made the Father known

He gives grace and truth today. he is light. He gives salvation. - to those who receive him

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John 8:42 ESV

42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.

John 17 - the glorious glory of the Son.

(1) The prayer concerning himself (17:1-5)

(2) The prayer concerning the disciples (17:6-19)

(3) The prayer concerning (17:20-26)

Felix Just Outline

A) 1-3: Jesus' hour of glory has come; he gives eternal life and knowledge to believers

B) 4-8: Jesus' work of glorifying and revealing the Father is complete

C) 9-12: Jesus prays that God protect the believers who are in the world

D) 13: Jesus' return to the Father makes the JOY of the believers complete

C') 14-19: Jesus prays that God sanctify the believers who are not of the world

B') 20-23: Jesus' unity with the Father completes the unity of all believers

A') 24-26: Jesus' glory reveals the Father; believers have the knowledge and love of God

John 17:1–4 ESV

1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.

John 17:5 ESV

And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

John 17:6 ESV

“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

Philippians 2:5–11 ESV

5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Where is the Spirit: It is the Spirit who brings about the Son’s incarnation by causing his conception in the womb of the virgin. It is the Spirit who anoints and empowers the Son in his messianic mission. And the Spirit is finally, at Pentecost, poured out on all flesh only when the Son’s work is completed. The Spirit’s work is to indwell believers, applying the work of Christ directly and personally to them. He is who he is as the eternal Spirit, and he does what he does in salvation history as the Spirit of Pentecost.

John 14:16–17 ESV

16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

John 17:24 ESV

Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

John 17:25–26 ESV

25 O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. 26 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”