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God's 'glory' Is How We Describe The Sum Effect ... PRO
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 2, 2008 (message contributor)
"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; it is as essential to God as light is to the sun and as wet is to water. You don't make the sun light; it is light. You don't make water wet; it is wet. In all of these cases, the attribute is intrinsic to the object.
In contrast, (our) glory is granted to us. 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.
That's the point. The only glory that (we) have is granted to us. The glory that is God's is His in His essence....
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J. I. Packer Wrote, "The Church Is Not To Be ... PRO
Contributed by Richard Burkey on Jun 7, 2005
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No More Players
Contributed by James Chandler on Jan 10, 2007
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James Duncan, Preaching With Great Unction And ... PRO
Contributed by Scott Malone on Mar 1, 2005
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The Lewis Awakening 1949-53 PRO
Contributed by Scott Malone on Mar 1, 2005
THE LEWIS AWAKENING 1949-53 1. In 1949, on Lewis, one of the Hebrides Islands off the coast of Scotland, two sisters became burdened with the spiritual coldness of their land. One sister was 82. The other was 84 and blind. 2. They devoted themselves to prayer and “waiting on God”. ...read more
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