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📖Bible Passage

Let Yahweh’s glory endure forever. Let Yahweh rejoice in his works.

Points

  • Psalm 104 not only commands us to worship God, it also gives us reasons to worship Him.
    • It begins at the highest level, from the throne of God,
    • and it goes down to the depths of the sea.
    • It is similar to Daniel 7 or Isaiah 66.
    • This is a vast illustration, but it is only an illustration of the infinite vastness of God’s glory.
      • God’s glory stands outside creation. He is beyond, and not contained by creation.
  • What is glory?
    • The Hebrew word translated glory means weight.
      • It is the idea of being in awe of God and seeing Him for who He is.
    • His glory is revealed in all that He has made, in all that He has done, and spoken and in who He is.
  • The glory of God is eternal.
    • Let Yahweh’s glory endure forever.
    • It will never cease.
    • It does not and it never will diminish.
    • Man’s glory fades and will pass away as we age and die. Not so with God.
  • Where do we see the glory of God?
    • Psalm 19:1: The Heavens declare the glory of God.
    • Proverbs 25:2: It is the glory of God to conceal a matter.
      • The heavens, the universe, is so vast that it is concealed and beyond our comprehension and even our ability to perceive.
    • It’s not only in space that we see the glory of God.
      • We even see the glory of God in the structure of DNA, in the humble ladybug, in magnificent organisms.
  • Where do we most see the glory of God? In the person and work of Jesus Christ.
    • John 1:14: And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory.
    • John 1:10
    • Colossians 1:17 In all things He has the preeminence
    • Psalm 24 describes the glory of Jesus’s ascension.
    • 1 Corinthians 2:8: Jesus is the Lord of glory
    • James 2:1: Jesus is the Lord of glory
    • 2 Corinthians 4:6
    • Nowhere do we see the glory of Christ more than in the cross of Christ. If you reject the cross, then you reject God’s glory.
      • Let us guard our hearts and our minds from small views of God.
    • Exodus 33:18-23: God showed His glory, (just the back of it) to Moses.

Application

  • How can we reflect the glory of God?
    • We can live by repentance, and faith.
      • The only way that we can reflect the glory of God is to come to Him in repentance and say “Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner.”
    • Delight to live constantly in His glory
      • 1 Corinthians 10:31
      • We should thank God for our meals, food, clothing, shelter and all the many things He gives us and in all these things we are living to the glory of God.
      • soli deo glory: To God alone be the glory.
      • ❓: Ask yourself, am I glorifying God:
        • in my speech
        • in the things I watch
        • in the company I keep
        • in the things I do?
    • God demonstrates His glory in His delays.
      • Jesus, on the way to see Lazarus, delayed on purpose so that He would be glorified. Lazarus died, and 4 days later, Jesus raised him from the dead and was glorified.
      • ❓: Are you and I willing to patiently wait for God? Do we glorify Him in our waiting, or do we curse Him for not giving us what we want when we want it?

Further Study


💬Discussion Questions

  • ❓: Ask yourself, am I glorifying God:
    • in my speech
    • in the things I watch
    • in the company I keep
    • in the things I do?