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Majesty

Crown Imperial – William Walton

They cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

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.”

The majesty of heaven is far beyond description of anything we have encountered in this temporal kingdom in the place of this lowly earth on which God our Father and King has placed us in these last days.

Perhaps closest in imagery is the glory of passing kingdoms, even the former glory of Great Britain, whose queen, HRH Elizabeth II, has reigned over seventy-five years.

The Prophet Daniel addressed the King over his life and existence on this earth in a foreign land with a respect and honor no longer rendered to HRM, Prime Ministers, Presidents, or Popes; yet once, the people bowed down to their earthly rulers.

Though Jesus Christ, the Apostle Paul and others honored Caesar, they did not worship Caesar in place of the Living God.

Daniel so honored the King and came to leadership in a foreign land as Joseph had honored Pharaoh and came to leadership in Egypt. All is in witness that we bow down to God Almighty in Heaven, while we serve God’s appointed leaders on earth.

Hear this witness to the Lord:

Daniel 4

English Standard Version (ESV)

Nebuchadnezzar Praises God

4 [a] King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you! 2 It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me.

3 How great are his signs,
how mighty his wonders!
His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and his dominion endures from generation to generation.

34 At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever,

for his dominion is an everlasting dominion,
and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;
35 all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
and he does according to his will among the host of heaven
and among the inhabitants of the earth;
and none can stay his hand
or say to him, “What have you done?”

36 At the same time my reason returned to me, and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and splendor returned to me. My counselors and my lords sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and still more greatness was added to me. 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.

Who is the King before which the Kings and Queens of the earth will cast all their crowns and bow down to Him?

Though Satan will seek to usurp the Throne, Christ Jesus IS the victor of the Kingdom through His Sacrifice on the Cross.

ALL will bow down before Christ Jesus, or Lord!

Hebrews 1: 3-4

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

Majesty

Jude 1:24

English Standard Version (ESV)

Doxology

24 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, 25 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.

November 7, 2013
Glory and Honor and Power
Worship requires the creature to bow down to it’s Creator. The Apostle John records the worship of the living creatures. Man must also bow down to the Lord our God.

“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,
who was and is and is to come!”

Revelation 4:9 And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
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
  
  in the NT always a good opinion concerning one, resulting in praise, honour, and glory
- splendour, brightness
  
  of the moon, sun, stars
  
  magnificence, excellence, preeminence, dignity, grace
  
  majesty
  
  a thing belonging to God
  
  the kingly majesty which belongs to him as supreme ruler, majesty in the sense of the absolute perfection of the deity
  
  a thing belonging to Christ
  
  the kingly majesty of the Messiah
  
  the absolutely perfect inward or personal excellency of Christ; the majesty
  
  of the angels
  
  as apparent in their exterior brightness
- a most glorious condition, most exalted state
  
  of that condition with God the Father in heaven to which Christ was raised after he had achieved his work on earth
  
  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,

“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”

14 And the four living creatures said, “Amen!” and the elders fell down and worshiped.
November 6, 2013
Our Sin

Psalm 51

English Standard Version (ESV)

Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

4 Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you may be justified in your words
and blameless in your judgment.

Mark 8:

34 And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them,

“If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 35 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it…

38 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

Titus 1:16 They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.

2 Timothy 2:

If we have died with him, we will also live with him;
12 if we endure, we will also reign with him;
if we deny him, he also will deny us;
13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful—

God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.

John 13

English Standard Version (ESV)

Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end…

17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

18 I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’

If you know our Lord’s commands, ‘blessed are you if you do them.’

And if not blessed for obedience to our Lord who died for our sins on the cross…

IF not blessed, then cursed. (May God have mercy on your soul.)

One of You Will Betray Me

21 After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, I say to you,one of you will betray me.”

22 The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke.23 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table at Jesus’ side, 24 so Simon Peter motioned to him to ask Jesus of whom he was speaking. 25 So that disciple, leaning back against Jesus, said to him, “Lord, who is it?”

You believe your sin is against me; but your sin is the adultery of Judas.

I gave her time to repent, but she refuses… – Revelation 2

John 15:12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Ephesians 5

English Standard Version (ESV)

Walk in Love

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us,

a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Walk as children of light

9 (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), 10 and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.

11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

Wives and Husbands

22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.

33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight…

Forgive us, Lord

by the fragrant offering of the Blood of Your Cross.

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October 28, 2013