The Great, Greater & Greatest Glory

As you being seated get your Bible list go to first Timothy chapter 3 verse Timothy chapter 3 I'm preaching to first Timothy but were jumping over from where we are, Lord willing to weeks from today will be back in our regular spot of exposition through the book, but I built on this section. In first Timothy three for our conference, but I was strongly impressed. We needed the six rotations of the church family. So this is my third installment of this message. I guess you'd say three parts in one message but this morning I want to inform you that I've changed a lot of stuff I change the title and I change the outline somewhat. I think it flows a little better this way. I sometimes tease with pastors when I'm talking to about preaching are prepared to preach and that is that I never finish studying the message never. I just run on time and had just kind of went Times up.

I have to just put together what I have and am this particular message. I had a lot of preparation.

I took a week off from preaching herein studied extra and I wanted you to get that grass this and here's something I want to put in your mind that you you kinda know already. We talk about a lot if we could just keep this centered in our hearts, and that is that everything that God does. He does of his own wisdom looked anybody else. This wisdom is pure and perfect and holy, he needs no other wisdom everything God's dozens of his own wisdom.

Secondly everything God does is by his own power, the need man's power man's ingenuity man's help in any way shape or fashion. It's by his power.

Everything God does is of his wisdom. Everything God does is by his power. Thirdly everything God does is for the good of his church. Did you hear that you you are the apple of his eye.

Absolutely everything that's ever happened and everything that is going to happen is unto your good. Everything God does is of his own wisdom. Everything God does. He performs by his own power. Everything God does is for the good of his church and everything God does is unto his own glory. Those four thoughts on this wisdom by his power for the good of his church for his own glory everything. I'm not talking about most things. Everything is focus their you are the pinnacle of God's work because you're even called the body of his son Jesus Christ in these the head.

You're called the building that Jesus builds. By the way, there's nothing more important than what Jesus does when you hit what he does is is it now we come to this message and were talking about God's glory and I've retitled it this way. Go and put it up guys, the great greater and greatest glory.

The great greater and greatest glory never Artie talked about the great glory, meditate, look at our text, right-click I'm building off of this as a springboard. As such, first Timothy chapter 3, beginning in verse 15, Paul writes to Timothy is now overseeing the church at Ephesus, and Paul writes but in case on delayed.

I write to you, Timothy, so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God. That's the local church which is the church of the living God, the pillar in support of the tree was in a technicality know that the way you fashion and function as a local church is very important because the local churches are the pillars and the support of the truth of God. God has designed that the truth of God in the earth will be upheld by and proclaimed by his local churches to Timothy listen to me Paula's sake. It's very important that you give the church right because so much is riding on the chair. It's the pillar in support of the truth. Now he says everything that's going to happen comes from this one, whom God sent that's now been unveiled before you. Verse 16 by common confession greatest the mystery of godliness, he that's Jesus who was a bit rebuilt in the flesh was vindicated in the spirit seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world taken up in the glory of the words God is forming this great work.

This work of building his church is through Jesus Christ, and it required Jesus Christ to come and be unveiled before us. That wasn't a final and full unveiling is when he came to earth, born of the Virgin Mary, grew up and performed his earthly ministry, culminating in his death on the cross for the children for the church there that there was an unveiling of him. We saw him. We touched him.

The apostle said, we heard him but yet he was veiled in his glory course that reminds us there's an ultimate future final full fabulous unveiling coming when Christ will return in all of his glory. He wasn't manifested in all of his glory in his first coming in one sense you could say in his first unveiling he was performing his church.

The formation of his church in his spinal unveiling get the calm will be the glorification of the church the formation and then the glorification but it's all centered in Christ.

It's all centered in him coming and performing this work.

It's all for the good of his church and for his own glory not going to skim through here because we've already talked about God's great glory. And I reorganize the outline.

This way, this is past material. We've Artie looked at God, got himself a receipt glory through Israel and her foes. Remember, the Bible says that God would harden Pharaoh's heart, God acted on Pharaoh Israel's enemy when she was enslaved, thereby the dip he acted on Pharaoh's heart, hardening him. He says to the end that he would be honored through Pharaoh to God's his own to be glorified through Israel. But I need to go to be glorified through Israel's foes that remember how I defined glory for us.

It is a multifaceted word but for our purposes if we would think of glory as deeming one worthy of honor and praise to God is saying I'm going to so work on. Oh Pharaoh that I'm even going to cost Pharaoh in the Egyptians to see me, the God of Israel, Jehovah as the one God worthy of honor and praise that I'm also blessed my nation Israel, that they turn will look to me and say you're the God worthy of honor and faith and not God's not just interested in lipservice. What he means is I go to perform such wonders in through and for Israel, not even going to such works in Israel's enemies that all of them from their hearts.

They may not believe in me saving late but at least from their hearts. All of them will say hey Jehovah is the one God we deem worthy of honor and praise. So all through the Old Testament era. God was getting glory to himself through Israel and her foes and then an extension of this be would be through the law God gave Israel the moral law summed up in the 10 Commandments and he gave Israel the ceremonial law and in all of this law that God gave is really illustrated his supremacy, the holiness of his very character comes out in his law. That's why we are a foolish and perverse generation to begin to change the standards of right and wrong to begin to change what is moral and in moral as our country now is been begin to call good evil and evil good, why because God gave these laws recorded in his word and they are the very expressions of his holy character. God does not change the truth cannot change, so we are fools to redefine things. The quote for us." So is Israel embraced these laws and is Israel walked in these laws. These were flawless. God did not give to to the Hittites to the Canaanites to the Amorites to the Egyptians, the Babylonians, you name it.

So Israel as they walked in these laws they illustrated God is superior to all the other so-called gods of the land. Therefore, they would look and see the moral ethical uprightness of Israel and say fair God we deem worthy of honor and praise. So that's the great glory. God was getting unto himself as he works through Israel as he worked through Israel's foes and as he even gave them the law that they were to be about. Now we come to new material which I call the greater glory. Gotta make sure I get to the right place here in my notes about the greater glory of course is Christ and his church.

Everything God was going through Israel and everything recorded in Moses and the prophets ported to Jesus and Jesus work of saving forming building in one day, glorifying his church.

That's what we are now in the end, at the very end of the age when Christ returns all of those who are saved from all the ages will be gathered together at Milby this one final glorification and unification of one universal church, but we don't function that way now.

That's why the New Testament records almost 100 times.

The word church effortlessly called out ones is what it means is a local body of believers to the churches of Galatia to the church at Ephesus to the church at Rome over and over. It was a specific local body of baptized believers. That's a church and so this is the work God's doing. Now that even that's going to show forth God's even greater glory you you you get it on being an instrument of God so that he might bring himself even greater glory, and he brought himself to Israel and her foes into the law.

Why because listed the feet the conquest. The victory of grace is much, much greater than the law.

It's a greater work of the first was a great work, but it's a greater work God building a church by grace, so getting back to Paul's expectation to Timothy here as he tells Timothy. I bring I bring to you so you know how to function in the household of God, that is the local church because so much is riding on the church is the pillar in support of the truth and is the primary instrument God's ordained to bring great glory to himself because people to look at this church. A list church because people to look at us and say there God is worthy of honor and praise. So you said you got your you better be functioning right you better be biblical in your structures biblical in your functions functioning by his power, so that the world will look on you and say that's higher than anything we can be a part of. That's greater than anything we understand fair God we deem worthy of honor and the praise now let's talk about here under this greater glory, knowing that the great glory was Israel in the Old Testament, the greater glory is Christ and his church in the New Testament some point a the biblical means of grace. The biblical means of grace, that is, God has given some means whereby he is churches are to function so that we are built up so that we are matured so that we are walking in his troops so that we will best reflect him to the world no less than what I'm telling you we have this, especially in America.

Here's one thing understand the way Americans think is upside down from the way almost all people of all ages thought before us that he is in there some good in this. But there's a negative to it to this rugged individualism. This rugged independence. Now there's a strength in that it is like every good thing it needs to be balanced. What we've lost when we grab hold of this concept of rugged individualism. We've lost the aspect of community and interdependency and the reciprocal relationships that a body or group must have one for the other and so we come to the Bible. The Bible is written to a people who had no real concept outside of community. They always thought about us.

Israel, the Jews, the tribe of so-and-so, I group a collectivity not as an individual, salt, and I've seen clips I've seen preachers who are considered Bible preachers spend their whole ministries addressing people how they how they can as individuals live a good life by living by these truths and they almost completely missed the community. Yes they missed the church aspect as if churches is the place you you see it in with a lot of the people around you and hope you get something for you on that Sunday morning will that's true but that's not near all the truth. If you miss the community if you missed the body.

If you miss the church you could say that you missed everything. I mean I mean you know it ensure their individual things will plotter individual rights life rather listen all the individual expectations of Scripture are to the end that not only is your life blessed and a witness for Christ, but that you're better for the body to hear that it helps you be a better church. Perhaps you better live in concert in cooperation Internet reciprocal relationship of the local church family now, so God's given us these means of grace. These ways that as a family we become a better assembly of called out ones adequacy of the church is what it means now through the years.

We understand these things from the Scriptures and they been organize different ways for theologians and pastors. The ages, for example. Traditionally, they would say the means of grace are primarily the preaching of the word baptism and the Lord's supper groom and his newer systematic theology expands out on this and he he listed 11 means of grace from the New Testament teaching the word baptism, Lord's supper prayer, worship, church discipline, giving spiritual gifts fellowship one with the other evangelism and I might even admit admissions on the back of some of these you can look together but you know what I'm saying in the Bible. These activities these are mean whereby we grow together in the Lord we mature together in the Lord. We strengthen one another in the Lord and in his word and become a better witness for Christ, i.e. where are better reflection of Christ to the world whereby the world would have to look at us and say there God is worthy of honor and praise. Now, one had to skim over a lot of stuff living on the subpoint be so if those are the means of grace. And here's where I think I'm wrestled and struggled through the years because I would say churches so very poorly structured to achieve the means of grace very sloppily very recklessly structured as if these means of grace are just going to happen in a disorganized system but God not only has given us those individual means of grace. Secondly, he's given us structures from which are through which the means flow effectively or function effectively structures of grace now to give you an example. Let's say you want understand football and you say okay I'm going to teach this person who got us doesn't know anything about football. The game of football. Now there's a coach there's four downs on offense a touchdown to six points extra point is 1.2 point conversion two points and there's blocking, tackling, running, passing now go out there and play what you've told them truth. Also, things are essentially football but is there no structure and so there out there running and blocking and tackling trying to figure out what four downs is and what is a touch that you told them some stuff and there's no structure but then if you say no, wait a minute you got organize on offense and the quarterback does this, he mainly takes the ball hands and offer those of the lineman block the quarterback and really makes wide receivers primarily catch them, although they do pack and then he organizes all now we see how it works because there's a structure by which we can function and play out that it would be those individual activities. The defense does these things will that's what the church needs so badly to go to the word of God and say what are the structures whereby we can live out the God ordained me's. I submit to you, God has given the church the structures the structures of grace and they contain, and I do effectively carry out the means of grace, not what I want to say here is you gotta be very careful because there's so much being tall and proposed today for how to structure the church but there's almost no biblical foundation for its things that I call extra biblical they may not be wrong, but since you put energy into them. You don't have the energy left to do the things the Bible does give us today that you just hear that.

Is that not the great tough challenge of the ages that tough you can give yourself the good stuff and it becomes evil because it crowds out your energy for the main thing so we want to find primarily speaking the structures that are needful because if you just take the means of grace by themselves. Those individual leaven preaching the word. The ordinances fellowship evangelism.

Churches, when you take all of those is how can I do that is noble function you cannot get it done. Unless you have adequate structures function with. I mean if we are lax in organizing and utilizing the structures of grace, we will certainly be deficient in the use of the means of grace, so over the years I played with this over and over again it we have a wheeled diagram that I want you to look at if use in the morning conferences. You remember the wheel actually is not supposed to be looked just like a steering wheel but is supposed to be like a wheel on the car, but it looks like a steering well now from this wheel. I want to illustrate the structures that Scripture gives us to function as a local church.

The center of the will, the hub of the wheel would be congregational worship centered on the preaching of the word in the power of the spirit that's put in the mentalist the hub because everything else depends upon it. List what I'm telling you, if this is not right.

It doesn't matter what you do well because this informs everything else you may say yeah that we have a killer youth program.

I mean it's massive it's gigantic and the kids love it, yes. But if the words not informing. How is the function and what is the teaching water.

What is sound doctrine that all you got to big event. Everything depends on left. This informs everything we do children's ministry.

The word of God centered in the preaching of the word from the pulpit and by the way, there is a supernatural work that God does when the word is faithfully preached, whereby his children.

The local church grow in what we call here a gospel humility, a sweet self-denying self depreciating gospel humility where our heart and our minds is primary focused on pleasing Christ glorifying Christ and his church and not on what we desire. We want as personal preference. Can you might imagine a church of this many people where everybody got their top three or four personal preferences in the church. Total chaos anarchy factions division. There's no you can function and listen God through his spirit gives starting with Jeff not been a gospel so that we can function together. In other words I said I need hours to preach on each one of these that can scare you. Just little bit but were not going to. That's the hub of the wheel. That's the sick, everything just builds on that now. The first one we will talk about the first spoke in the wheel are structure is every member ministry through small groups, every member ministry. This Margaret, how are you gonna function in the means of grace church discipline, fellowship, all the aspects of the means of grace. If your people don't have a way to orca be organized so that they might learn one another grow to love one another, trust each other by learning each other. Be transparent to one another to help and sharpen each other. Bond together with one another. Are you listening to me church is not just an event you listen to once or twice a week from a pastor that's essential but it's to the end and that you might live out ministering together in small groups. How else is the world going to see you loving one another and therefore glorify your father is in heaven is with the Scripture says they'll say your good works and glorify your father how to go to see that you're not together to minister to each other to get to know each other so we've worked really really hard and we have not arrived but you have been a good example. I continue getting testimonies from pastors who visit us assist man we need to learn how you your people all seem to care for each of the serve each other, minister to one another.

Well, not all of us do some of you coast only puts many of you did and that's an essential component in others a boatload of Scripture to support this, but just suffice it to say, a church that has not worked hard and works well and organizing its people in small groups so that every single church member can have some type of ministry that is a church that is not functioning in the structures of grace. It's not exercising properly the means of grace and God's honors diminished in the world. Fewer people are deeming God worthy of honor and praise Chris not seeing his wisdom lived up by the church are at the next spoke with a personalized strategic world missions the course. This one is greatly depend upon small groups because in our small groups. We break down all of our missions work in the smaller unit so that in your small group, you can wrap your heart and arms around 2345 people and learned of them, pray for them with understanding support them etc. etc. we have what 6070 Otto knows over 60 church planting missionaries. We directly are responsible for. Now there's no way that we just are all those out there it's okay I'll take care of them know. But if we break them down the waiver small group has a few we can adequately encourage adequately. Pray for support and care for these missionaries.

Personalized means that we don't just say that there some institution off somewhere separate from the local church that's going to do missions force we personally take ownership of the responsibility and by the way, though we have some missionary families with the international mission board of the Southern Baptist convention. We will always stand with them and support them a course but I hate you know we thought a denomination was turning corners and doing good and some good things did happen did happen rather but some I I'm just growing more and more frustrated with the broadness of what's called the Southern Baptist convention of churches there some that we can agree with and were one with but there are many, many, many who believe things and practice things that are radically un-biblical. So we need to personally take ownership of missions not destroy mission monies at a board out there somewhere and say what that's missions because we will answer to God for those dollars.

So this is something we've been working on for decades now personalized strategic we say strategic we mean biblically strategic.

We look at what does the New Testament say missions is how does the New Testament define what missions work is all about. That's what were going to do, we might do other things that were going to greatly major on the things the New Testament says qualifies what mission work really is and when you look at the apostle Paul, the great mission of the New Testament. You only see two things preach the word plant churches preach the word plant churches and that's what weeds were strategic in making sure we make that the the priority of all of our missions efforts.

The third one we call family discipleship. We haven't really talked about this much.

Through the years and there's a couple reasons for that. First of all I think I failed there to not talk about it enough.

Secondly, I see nothing in the New Testament, especially about a structured, organized, formal time in the home for family training and discipleship.

I may think about you come to church, you have small groups. You have a worship service. Your son did not you have wings do not, then the students and others have other formal ties for study what I think is wisest and that is not the only way. But what I think is wisest and best is in your homes. Let it be more a part of your lifestyle. Let it be real from the heart. I call it just be real at home. Let the verse you're memorizing and meditating on speak of it at the dinner table talk to your sons and daughters when you're driving down the road about it and here's one primary foundational thing that I think we've missed all my goodness, I think we got some in my home and after the years. Not nearly enough. But I'll encourage this more as we go forward, take what was preached from their pastor. The last Sunday get another two or thought to in your mind and talk to your children about it. That following week are to your spouse and talk about application with those true Smith and what this does this teaches your children the importance of the preaching of the word and the importance of the church. There's been a lot done in family discipleship and started out really good and wise know you listen to me, but is turned into a proud and independent spirited thing. The family starts become their own church and they start drifting from the need to be under the pastor and the need to be guided by the elders and the need to be part of the larger community of the local church family, don't go there, let this be the overflow of what you been instructed in a church that look that I know a lot of you know the Bible well your good expositors in your teaching. Understand that I praise God for that.

But your children need to know that you need the man of God to you're not the pastor of your children. Your children have a pattern in assent to the pastor of your home that's under your pastor. The church don't grow a proud and independent spirit in the home, let it be an extension of what's being taught of the church.

What is it Deuteronomy 6 is to to talk of these things when you rise up in the morning when you sit by the wayside when you walk along the way when he lied about not the words in your lifestyle. Let these truths come out.

Here's what I'm saying. If the church is going to be powerful if the church is going to be blessed of God. It is a church is going to be the kind of church that causes the world around it.

The safe are your God is worthy of honor and praise that it has to be real at home to know this could only come the doors here and cut it off when you get home.

It's gotta be real at home to now you can have all of these structures with every I dotted and T cross and by the way you're looking at a man that can flat build something and run it I can build things strategize things develop them and I can run them.

You better get out of my way as is the way I'm geared to know what God said to humble me through the years, and he said to teach me that yes those are good gifts to strategize and structure and organize and lead something. But there's one foundational primary truth that you know but you haven't been treasuring it holding in your heart like you need to and exit all of this is holy dependent upon the power of the Holy Spirit. So when the Spirit empowers this from the preaching of the word of the power of the spirit. Every member ministry with spiritual power there personalized strict strategic permission which spiritual power their family.

The soft of the Holy Spirit guiding you to make it really at home when the spirits empowering this, then, that we arose along beautifully and causes the world around us. To look at us and say what you're doing and what you're about is greater than anything we've ever seen in the world your God is worthy of honor and praise your God is worthy of glory so we become. Outside of that wheel a God glorifying local church.

That's what we want to be in a church that God may use as a model of pattern and encouragement to others, and that's what we want to be and I think of all the things I played with her the years that more accurately and fully represents what were about, and I'm going to preach for a new partnership church in South Mississippi on next Sunday.

That's where I will be and he's been following us something for seven years now just just like a famous man he's found a whale and he said brother Jeff. We got to we made a lot of changes will I've got to get my people to see what was a big relief structured church look like, and so I'll probably doing some of this in my preaching for him next week. So God has indeed answered that prayer to allow us to be something of a pattern or model that can help others. Now when you look at that wheel, there may be dozens and dozens of other things we do, but they must flow out of these things and complement these primaries structures if in any way they compete or diminish the reason we get rid of. I mean, they're gone. I don't care if we cancel the whole music program.

I don't care if we never have a church picnic again.

We don't do these things that we don't have to do that. I'm just saying it should be our heart. Amen when I get height when I come to place a financial ruin in this country and economy collapsing and in persecution come to work. We can't do 1001 nice things that the Lord lets us do not we can still meet together and preach the word, we can still break open and school buses are home to whatever extent Per cyber member members ministries or small groups. We can still have personalized strategic permission.

We can still have not spared empowerment, we can still glorify God in the world and be pattern goblins among suggest that depend on a lot of stuff. That's why this works for you. Listen to you pastor this morning. I talked this all over the world and remote travel settings in the most desperate dark areas of rule in India out of this everywhere and challenge them everywhere with this statement. If it's McCall it's cross-cultural. There's not one church technique and in yet another church technique in Africa. Another church technique in your note. This is God's plan for God's church, wherever ships now, here's my challenge to anyone.

I do this all the time. Show me in Scripture a better, biblically supported structure and I'll change mine gladly change. I mean that missing about my structured somebody it's been around for 2000 years. Show me a more biblical model now gladly embrace it, but I can say this world three decades nicely more than that, but formally world three decades now, this send probably God's blessing. It fact I know he's. Here's my challenge to you this morning.

So are you listen to me so that we can facilitate the means of grace God's ordained we need the structures of grace. By grace he gave us this in his word to the end. People would look at God's church and say that God is worthy of honor price. Much of you. Can you bind this will you bind this. Will you help us more of the next two or three decades have long God gives us together to see this better established and going forward so that we might be an instrument in God's hands to multiply this to the ends of the all right that's the wheel them. I am never presently discerning what to leave out before close. Obviously, as Paul exhorts Timothy here in our text and in this is surprising to me. It's shocking to me almost. Some people take parts of Timothy and teach them as if it's it's an instruction to an individual because as Paul writing to Timothy notes Paul writing to Timothy for the body of Christ which is the local church.

Don't lose the church lose the excellency of the called out ones together now look at that text again and and will will conclude this point and and be real brief on our last pauses to Timothy, I'm writing first 5315 but in case on delayed I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself very practically in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar in support of the truth. Then he lays out. Of course Jesus is the one who is revealed.

Verse 16 he is the one whose common unveiled himself, and it's through him and his work on the cross for us that the church can now be being be being formed in one day be glorified. See my lust but my third subpoint here on this is. Let's get the glory flowing now, let's keep this going now in John 15 eight my father is glorified by this, that you bear fruit, and so proved to be my disciples. He's not just talking about you as an individual bearing fruit that may be included, but you as a group keep bearing fruit and adding to the front of the local church keep reaching souls for Christ. John 1335 by this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love one another. How in the world of people's our love for one another. If were not organizing the small group so that we can learn bond and really learn to love each other. If you don't have a functioning small-group.

If you are faithful and ministering your small group you're denying one of the primary reasons God saved you to use you in your care for each other in small groups so that the world not see our love is different and better, and superior to their let's get this flowing now the church is the body of Christ, and Christ should be seen in how we function and how we live out these means of grace in the local church family.

Now if you want to know what I'm about, not just talking and not as your pastor right now just to say don't know this person. I will earn this person if you know what a person is you got to do more than just listen to their words and look at their head. If you really want to know what they argue or no one know what they're about. You need to look at their head and listen to the words. It is something else you'd also look at their hands.

What do they build our do they create. Do they make gestures with her hands good and bad you need to look at their feet. Witness their feet take them are there for swift and sure.

Are they slow and halting the words look at what they do, not just what they say if you want to really know them well. If you want to really know who God is, you do look at the head, Jesus Christ. But you look at his body the church where the hands and feet and legs and ears to show the world.

Christ, so it is preaching proclaiming Christ, of course, but it is the transferring of those truths preached embracing them and living them out together as a local church that really shows you what Christ is all about a mature local church. Don't you hear this thing with me this morning.

Don't go to sleep on me now a mature local church is where theology goes from concept to creation. It goes from rhetoric to reality.

A mature local church is theology incarnate its truth incarnate. Third John 14 John writes to the local church and says I have no greater joy than this, than to hear that my children the local church walks in truth, they have a true structure. The wheel and in that structure their living out the biblical truth of what the church is to be doing. That's what John is talking about a local church, a local Equus Seiyu is not like marbles in the bag, but more more like chunks of chocolate in a double boiler we just blend together with each other through the word and the power of the spirit is truly miraculous that an otherwise very diverse people, and I look at you.

You're very diverse people with all kind of interesting background, socioeconomic, you name it, and yet God has called us out at the CME just called out ones for his gospel about the power of his spirit calls us out from other collectivities specific fears where you belong here is your primary place of belonging in this family, local church and it gets so strong. The Bible says the love the Holy Spirit putting us in us from one another and we are a one another with all kinds of natural diversities, but we have a spiritual oneness so great, can it become that the Bible says you become willing to lay down your lives for one another and when the world sees that they say your cot is a God worthy of honor and praise to have done this in your hearts like this and he gets the glory. Matthew 516 let your light shine before others, so that they will see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven. See your good works, as of church and give glory to God as the greater glory all the Old Testament was the preliminary that was great glory, but important to Christ and his church. The greater glory now Roman three and not be here long at all. Roman three. God's greatest glory. There's coming a day will happen when God's going to unveil things before all the universe before every that's ever existed or been made. He's going to unveil the heights of his wondrous glory. Revelation 19 seven let us rejoice and be glad and give glory to him for the marriage of the Lamb has come and the bride, the church has made herself ready.

Well, she's not made herself ready so much as Jesus is God is ready. This is this is the picture of the final purified church being presented to Jesus at the end of time.

Revelation 19 seven through nine.

Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to him for the marriage of the Lamb has come and the bride is made herself ready and it was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen bride and clean for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the same and he said to me right. Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.

And he said to me, these words are true words of God. Revelation 21 verse two and verse nine speaking of the church, I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem. That's a picture of the church, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me saying come here I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb open to this point nobody seen her in her completion. There was some of the lot. The bride on the earth still serving the Lord. There are some of the bride in heaven already with the Lord. But on this day they'll all be brought to the dead in Christ will rise will rise be united with the spirits and souls it departed beforehand, and all those who are alive and remain will be calling together the air, they will be purified and in all of those in heaven, will come with Jesus and of the one mighty massive broad church of the Lord Jesus Christ first ever to gather all purified unified glorified with the glory of Jesus Christ. That will be the greatest glorification on that day. Member Christ is the return from heaven on a white charger on the white horse in all of his glory. He will be unveiled on that day and he is as if I'm speaking anthropomorphic leaders. If Jesus was a person human just like us. It will be as if Jesus is being seen nothing yet what to what about show you you just on back just hang out just to see all the Angels are over going it's coming it's base comments I made just for the things of his condos a Jesus is our right as my love the dead in Christ will rise Bill Abbott constantly transport everybody will be to get up and leave forever and ever and ever for purification unification glorification of the great part of the Lord Jesus Christ. Lisa your mental waiting when you do the wedding. Let's say you're sitting on the pew. You are the bride consumers cut what you're coming behind and all you're going. That's what all the Angels are doing right now bride Scott Braxton that here's a challenge for us now you get don't know why in God's perfect purposes and sovereignty. He's calling you to get in on getting the bride ready for his own glory. How can you not get that your best.

How can you not give it your best best gifts best energies your best time moms and dads can I say something to you raise your children with this thought will be faithful to God's church visits the centerpiece of God's purposes and God's glory because of the Holy Spirit listen to me moms it, if Holy Spirit puts that your kids heart there stuck on Jesus forever.

You don't have to worry about once I get hooked on Jesus is to get hooked on phonics phonics fails. By the way, I gave up on phonics and you can tell about my writing and my speech and my spelling. I learned phonics and then the next thing I learned six or years as all the exceptions to the rules. I just taught me everything in this world fails, but you listen to me. Jesus never fails. He's going perfect. Bring us all together and glorifies with the glory that he himself pass that's the greatest glory event that is coming