In First Corinthians chapter 6 and verse 20, the Apostle Paul
said for you were bought at a price.
Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which
are Gods. There's much discussion in the
religious world. Today regarding the question,
what is God's purpose for my life?
But God's purpose for your life is the exact same thing as his
purpose for my life and that is to serve him with every fiber of
our being within the roles that he's allowed us to have.
Have and within the talents that he has given us to serve him all
the days of our life. And number two to glorify him in
all that we do. That is our reason for
existence, that's our reason for living.
But the question is, what is the glory of God?
There are two aspects to the glory of God aspect.
Number one, there's the glory that God has in himself.
For example in Isaiah, chapter 6.
When Isaiah saw in a vision the Lord high and lifted up.
The Bible says that his train or his robe filled, the temple,
showing the magnificence, and the glory of God.
And you remember those six wings seraphim's said one to another
exclaiming, one to another in honor of the Lord they said,
holy holy, holy is the Lord of hosts.
The whole earth is full of his glory.
In other words, those Angelic beings were not giving God
glory, they were recognizing that God had it.
That is God. God's intrinsic Glory.
That means it's the composite of all of his attributes.
That is what God possesses naturally.
And there's nothing that a man can do to add to or take away
from the intrinsic value or intrinsic nature of God's glory.
One more quick example to of God's intrinsic, glory in John
chapter 11, when Jesus waited you remember, before he was
going to raise Lazarus from the dead.
And at the, to me, fine. Ali says, four days later, he
said, take away the stone and Martha said, but lord, it's been
four days and behold he already stinketh And Jesus said, Martha,
didn't I tell you if you would believe you would see the glory
of God. In other words it was the
composite of all of his attributes and the attribute.
Going to be displayed was his Almighty power that is the
nature that God has and God gets Glory based upon what he has in
his intrinsic Glory. But secondly, there's Glory that
is given to him from his creatures.
Ephesians chapter 1 and verse 20 said, Paul said that Christ may
be magnified in my body. Now, Paul didn't mean that Jesus
Christ is to be improved upon. He meant that in the eyes of the
world. Jesus Christ needs to be exalted
through him and that must be the aim in the purpose of every bit
of our life. All of us that try to serve God.
One more passage along this line, though.
Jesus set the example, in John chapter 8 and verse 50.
When Jesus said, I Seek not mine own Glory, but the glory of him
that sent me, in other words, I lived to bring him glory.
I live to radiate his attributes.
I live to Adorn the doctrine of God.
I live to exalt. God and honor God, in the eyes
of the world. That is the purpose of my life.
Well, for tonight, just for a few minutes, I want to talk
about three practical ways that we can glorify God in our life.
Number one, we glorify God, when we confess our sins, you know
maybe you've not thought about that.
Maybe you've not thought about the fact that your glory god
glorify God when you confess your sins but when you confess
sin you really do. Glorify God.
Do you remember the thief on the cross?
Jesus being crucified between those two mouth factors and one
of them said that Jesus, if you are, who you say you are, why
don't you save yourself at us? The other one said in Luke 23
and And 41 we indeed suffer justly, in other words, when you
confess your sins to God, you glorify God because you're
telling God, it is all your fault.
It is my fault when I sin, I accept full responsibility for
my sins. God is never at fault.
You know? Some say today you know, yeah
it's my sin but these were the extenuating circumstances Beyond
My Control. These are the things that led to
my demise. So really, it wasn't totally my
fault. Some have even tried to blame
God. But Nehemiah 9, + 33 says Thou
Art just in all that is brought upon On us.
God is not responsible for your sin, nor for mine.
And when we admit that, God gets the glory, but let me give you a
passage. In first, John 1:9 very
encouraging passage regarding our sins and regarding
forgiveness. And John said, if we confess our
sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Now, confession of the Bible is not reluctant Ian.
It's not they got me dead to rights.
I have no choice. I have no other way out.
I've got to make this problem go away.
So I'll just quickly, make a confession and make it go away.
May, I also say tonight that confession without repentance is
meaningless? Confession without repentance,
does us? No good at all.
You know, when I was a young boy growing up.
It's amazing. How many things?
My father said to me that I thought were really well, I
thought we were out of line at the time, I'll admit that I
remember when I would say to my father for things that I would
do, I would say Dad, I'm really sorry, I'm really sorry, and I
would stand there with a smile on my face, and I would what my
dad just say. That's all right, son, I forgive
you. My father one time said when I
repeatedly kept doing the same thing over and over, when I
finally said, I'm sorry. He said, are you really sorry or
are you sorry? It just got caught.
And I thought, what a rotten thing to say to me.
How awful? And then he said this, why don't
you be sorry before you do it? How about that?
Confession of the Bible and confession In this passage,
literally comes from the Greek word.
That means to say the same. In other words, when you confess
your sins to God, you are literally saying the same thing
to God. That God says about that sin,
God hates that sin. You're saying I hate that sin
to, you know, what else you're doing.
You're saying it's my fault, all my fault.
That's confession with Godly sorrow, that's confession with
repentance. And that's the confession that
says the Anything about that sin that God says.
And God says those sins are forgiven confession.
Glorifies God. Number two, we glorify God.
Also when we trust him, we need to trust God, more than just
with our lips and just buy the things in which we say.
We're either going to submit ourselves to God and our life to
God, and put our life In His Hands, in both time or eternity
or were not. In Romans chapter 4 and verse
20, it says Abraham was strong in faith, giving glory to God.
God is glorified when we trust him, but understand this
unbelief questions. God, the Bible says that by my
God, shall supply all your needs, according to the riches
in him in Christ Jesus. Now, I understand that sometimes
we have things that are very difficult in our life when you
go through something that is very difficult in your life.
And everybody that is looking at your life and looking at your
example and they know that you have faith and you're not
wavering at all. And you put all of your trust in
your faith in God. The whole world sees it, and God
gets the glory. on the other hand, if the world sees the
opposite, Then God is made a liar.
First, John chapter 5 and 6. And 10 says he that believeth
not makes God a liar. Now, you don't really make God a
liar and his nature but you make him a liar or appear to be a
liar or in essence, you accuse him as such but you know, Faith
problems are nothing new. If we look to the New Testament
in the days that Jesus walked in the face of the Earth with his
disciples. I've counted at least five times
that Jesus said to his disciples.
Oh Oh, ye of little faith. You know, they it wasn't they
didn't have any faith. It's that they had little weak
Faith. They didn't have great enough
faith and there's a difference and there's the difference in
your life, too. Little faith is trusting in God
because you see what God has already done.
For example, I've got a roof over my head.
You see I got faith. God provides.
I have food on my table. You see.
I got faith. God provides.
I've Got a Car in my driveway. You see?
I have faith. God provides.
Yeah, big deal. Little faith is trusting God
because you see what he's already done.
But great faith is trusting God when you've got nothing in your
hand. That's the kind of faith that we
need to have faith and trust in God.
And when you trust God like that you glorify him as one man said
God honors Faith. Because Faith, honors God.
But finally, we glorify God when we bear fruit in our life,
bearing fruit in our life is imperative.
Now, it is true that we praise God with our lips.
And fact, that is something that we must do.
God is worthy of our praise. And every way and we Do praise
him with our lips, but praising God.
With our lips is not enough. We must bear fruit.
And let me make this point about praising God with your lips.
We're talking about the verbalizing of God's wonderful.
Works Psalm 50 and 23 says, whoso offers, praise glorifies
me. I said all this to say this,
let's make sure that the words that we say, have meaning You
can have good words and good words can become vain without
meaning. We give you an example, I was
talking to a guy one time for about 10 minutes.
He was a self-proclaimed, pastor of some sort and every time I
said something, he would say either.
Amen, or praise God, he would say the words.
Praise God praising, God is a wonderful thing, but just
because you say the words, it doesn't mean you're actually
praising God. So I would say Nothing.
He would say the words, praise God.
I would say something else. They would say amen.
And after about 10 minutes, I had enough.
And I said well I got to go, I'm gonna go have some lunch you
know he said amen I thought seriously.
You're going to amen lunch. Make sure that the words are not
aimless and without meaning. We need to glorify God though by
bearing fruit in our life, John 15.
And 8 says, remember this in this is my father glorified that
you bear much fruit. Now, what is that?
Why is that? It's then that the world can see
the results of a god feel fulfilled life.
The reason that people sometimes have trouble with defining, our
God is because they can't see enough in us, there was a German
philosopher, one time that said this, you show me your redeemed
life? And I might believe in your
Redeemer. God is honored when we bear
fruit Philippians 1, 10 and 11. That you may approve the things
that are excellent that you may be sincere and without a fence
till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of
righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ to the glory and
praise of God. Now, here's the sad contrast.
Here's the flip side to that. Romans 2 and 24.
Let it never be said, these words of us for the name of God
is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of View, let it never be
that because of our Behavior. Whoever you are young person old
person in between person. It doesn't matter.
Let it never be that in our life because of our behavior.
That the name of God is blasphemed because of us.
That's very tragic. Well, we glorify God when we
demonstrate that in, good works so much more.
I'd like to say, but I'm going to wrap my remarks up with this.
There's something else that's very important folks, when you
talk about bearing fruit and you talk about works and that's your
attitude. Your attitude is everything.
Your attitude is the aroma of your heart.
It is the mindset. It's all about attitude.
Never underestimate the importance of a good positive.
Attitude. For example, you got two guys
right there. One says I can.
The other says, I can't guess what?
You're both right. That's fact, you're both right.
Attitudes and deeds. Glorify God, our attitude needs
to be that the church is the greatest thing that a person
will ever be a member of or a part of, in all their life.
I'm going to tell you something right now.
God's people are not perfect perfect.
But I'll tell you the greatest people in the world are God's
people. That's fact.
The greatest thing you will ever be a member of is the Lord's
Church. We need to have the mindset and
the attitude. It's the greatest thing we'll
ever be a part of and be enthused and excited about The
Greatest Story Ever Told, and preach the gospel to the world
with the attitude that people wanted.
If our attitude is it's all gone to the dogs, there's no more
good. Nobody wants it.
Nobody wants to do what's right there.
Just a few of us left over here in the corner.
I'm going to say some folks, we will save no one Let's get
enthused and excited about The Greatest Story Ever Told, what
does God want for your life? Here it is.
God wants you to glorify him with your life.
So you can enjoy him forever. Be encouraged moving forward.
Glorify God in all that you do. And I'll tell you something, we
can get to heaven. And let's be determined to take
as many people with us as we possibly can.