Glory and Honor and Power

11 “Worthy are you, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they existed and were created.”

Worship – doxa

• opinion, judgment, view

• opinion, estimate, whether good or bad concerning someone

  1. in the NT always a good opinion concerning one, resulting in praise, honour, and glory

• splendour, brightness

  1. of the moon, sun, stars

  2. magnificence, excellence, preeminence, dignity, grace

  3. majesty

     1. a thing belonging to God

        1. the kingly majesty which belongs to him as supreme ruler, majesty in the sense of the absolute perfection of the deity

     2. a thing belonging to Christ

        1. the kingly majesty of the Messiah

        2. the absolutely perfect inward or personal excellency of Christ; the majesty

     3. of the angels

        1. as apparent in their exterior brightness

• a most glorious condition, most exalted state

  1. of that condition with God the Father in heaven to which Christ was raised after he had achieved his work on earth

  2. the glorious condition of blessedness into which is appointed and promised that true Christians shall enter after their Saviour’s return from heaven

Revelation 5:

“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain,
to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might
and honor and glory and blessing!”

13 And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying,

14 And the four living creatures said, “Amen!” and the elders fell down and worshiped.