Called to glorify God

Isaiah 43:5–7 NKJV

5 Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, And gather you from the west; 6 I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, And My daughters from the ends of the earth— 7 Everyone who is called by My name, Whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him.”

The prophet was prophesying of those who would be Born of God in Christ bearing his name Jesus.

Ephesians 2:10 “10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”

The purpose for which God redeemed us and created us in Christ is that we should be a people who would glorify him.

We have been called, we have been chosen , we have been created to glorify God.

Isaiah 49:3 NKJV

3 “And He said to me, ‘You are My servant, O Israel, In whom I will be glorified.’

How is God glorified in our life

One Fundamental thing must happen in order for God to be glorified.

Death to self.

2 Corinthians 5:14–15 NKJV

14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

To glorify God, one has to stop living for himself.

Living to gratify his desires,

Living to cater to his will and ambitions.

All this things must perish form within the heart of man.

John 12:24 “24 Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.”

If our will is not dead

If our desires is not dead

It will come in conflict with the will, desire and purpose of God.

Jesus Christ always glrified the Father, he said “ i have not come to do my own will but the will of him who sent me”

This a must for God to be glorified in our life

Galatians 2:19–20 NKJV

19 For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

I must be crucified so Christ can live.

As long as I is alive, Christ is dead.

When I is alive, there is complaining, there is selfish ambition, there is self-ill, and selfish desire.

God Wants to be Glorified in every facet of our life.

1 Corinthians 6:19–20 NKJV

19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Our body, our Spirit has be bought by a price, that price the the blood of God by which we were purchased.

In this bod, God must be glorfied.

Whatever we do with this body must be to the glory of God.

Romans 12:1–2 NKJV

1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Our bodies must be presented a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God.

This not only refers to what we put on our bodies but what we do with our bodies.

Is what we are doing with our hands holy,

is what we are doing with our eyes holy

is what we speaking with our hand holy.

Are we glorifiying with our tongue, with our lips, with our eyes.

When we use all of our bodies to glofiy God, we will be presenting as a living sacrifice.

2 Corinthians 5:9–11 (NKJV)

9 Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.

10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

11 Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.

1 Corinthians 10:31–33 (NKJV)

31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

32 Give no offense, either to the Jews or to the Greeks or to the church of God,

33 just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

Sometimes we will take the difficult road instead of the easy road.

Sometimes we will take the long road instead of the shortcut.

We can live a life of carefree about what other people might say or think about us seeing what we do.

However, for the sake of Christ, we take into consideration the conscience of other people inorder that our works does not become an offense to the Gospel of God.

So that people Don’t dishnour God because of of works.

Sometimes we can let loose and fight back, but we choose not too. Not because we don’t have right but because we don’t wan’t to dishonour God by our action.

Before we do anything we have to ask ourself does it bring glory to God

God will glorify us, if we glorify him

John 13:31–32 NKJV

31 So, when he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him. 32 If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and glorify Him immediately.

1 Samuel 2:30 (NKJV)

30 Therefore the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever.’ But now the Lord says: ‘Far be it from Me; for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.