KNOWING CHRIST (9)

 THE GLORY OF CHRIST

TEXT: “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 17:24

What an astonishing statement! Christ possessed great glory before He came to the earth. He had indescribable glory of His own with the Father in heaven BEFORE he ever came to the earth to die on the cursed tree. That verse needs to be etched into our spiritual DNA, firmly stamped upon our minds, treasured in our hearts and daily applied in our lives.

Those words should motivate and excite us to greater love for Christ. They ought to humble us and keep us in our place of humility and submission to Him. They ought to stir all ministers to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ. Those words should create in us a deep and abiding desire to know Christ better.

Have you ever even thought of the glory that Jesus Christ possessed BEFORE He came to the earth? Christ prays that we could not only be where He is but also that we should be able to see His glory that He had with the Father! The glory of creation and rule and reign of the entire universe.

“Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost

As it was in the beginning, Is now and ever shall be

World without end, amen, amen!”

Sola Dei Gloria!

Enjoy “To God Be the Glory!’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-15v9iworAU&t=1s