1.
God created us for His glory.
a.
Isaiah 43:6-7: God says, “bring my sons from afar and my daughters
from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created
for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
b.
Isaiah 43:21: God describes His people as: “the people whom I
formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.”
2.
God forgives sins for His glory .
a.
Isaiah 43:25: God
says, “I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will
not remember your sins.”
b.
Psalm 25:11: “For
your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt, for it is great.”
3.
God hardened Pharaoh’s heart for His glory.
a.
Exodus 14:4,
14:17-18: God says, “And I will
harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over
Pharaoh and all his host, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD…And I
will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them,
and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his
horsemen. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten
glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”
b.
Romans 9:17: “For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, ‘For this very
purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my
name might be proclaimed in all the earth.’”
4.
God will not abandon His people for His glory.
a.
1 Samuel 12:22: “For the LORD will not forsake his people, for his
great name's sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for
himself.”
5.
God rescued His people from Egypt for His glory.
a.
Psalm 106:7-8: “Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not
consider your wondrous works; they did not remember the abundance of your
steadfast love, but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea. Yet he saved them for
his name's sake, that he might make known his mighty power.”
6.
Jesus came for the glory of God.
a.
John 12:27-28: Jesus said, “Now is my soul troubled. And what shall
I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to
this hour. Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have
glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
b.
John 17:1, 4-5: “When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his
eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the
Son may glorify you…I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that
you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the
glory that I had with you before the world existed.”
c.
Romans 15:8-9: Paul says, “For I tell you that Christ became a
servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the
promises given to the patriarchs, and in order that the Gentiles might glorify
God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore I will praise you among the
Gentiles, and sing to your name.”
7.
God chose us, adopted us, saved us, and sealed us for
His glory.
a.
Ephesians
1:3-14: “Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every
spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before
the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.
In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according
to the purpose of his will, to the praise
of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him
we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses,
according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom
and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his
purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to
unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. In him we have
obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him
who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were
the first to hope in Christ might be to
the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth,
the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the
promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire
possession of it, to the praise of his
glory.”
8.
Jesus answers prayers for His glory.
a.
John 14:13: Jesus said, “Whatever you ask in my name, this I
will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.”
9.
God gave the Holy Spirit to us for His glory.
a.
John 16:13-14: Jesus said, “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will
guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but
whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are
to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to
you.
10.
Jesus is coming again for His glory.
a.
2 Thessalonians
1:9-10: “They will suffer the
punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from
the glory of his might, when he comes on that day to be glorified in his
saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our
testimony to you was believed.”
b.
Philippians
2:9-11: “Therefore God has highly
exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at
the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the
earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God
the Father.”
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