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The Restoration of His Glory
Series: Restoration to GloryLink to sermon video: The Restoration of His Glory - L Siegle
The Restoration of His Glory
(John 17:1-5)
Thesis: The Son of God was ‘made flesh’ and the time came for His sacrificial death, and glorification in the heavens.
INTRODUCTION
1. The title of this message is, “Restoration of His Glory”
2. This is the beginning of a short series…as we wade out into the ‘deeper
waters’ of what God’s Word reveals to us about who God is and what God
has done.
a. The Bible is not arranged in ‘topical’ form, by subject.
b. The Bible, beginning in the book of Genesis, beginnings, is a ‘narrative’—
“a spoken or written account of connected events, a story”
c. The Bible is the ‘progressive revelation’ of ‘redemptive history’—
1) Think about the word “history”—Two words together with reference to
the Bible, it is HIS STORY – God’s ‘story’—
2) We tend to think the Bible is about US, (and most certainly we are
involved). The reality is that the Bible is all about HIM – who God is,
and what God has done over the course of those events from all that is
recorded from Genesis to Revelation.
3. There is a vast difference between Systematic theology, and Biblical
theology—I am a ‘fan’ more of the one and less of the other.
a. Systematic theology—divides the Bible into four basic ‘topical’ categories:
1) Bibliology -- study of the Bible
2) Hamartiology - The study of sin.
3) Christology – The study of Christ.
4) Ecclesiology – The study of the church.
b. Biblical theology--Biblical theology synthesizes the teachings of the Scriptures through the course of the narrative.
1) Biblical theology looks into the text and begins looking at what God is
doing.
2) Biblical theology asks, Who? What? When? Where? Why? and
How?
c. There are two distinct methods of Bible study, the inductive method and
the deductive method—both are related, and both are essential.
1) (Inductive Method)—Narrative==? Faith? Response
2) (Deductive Method)—Statement?Elements? Response
a) A + B = C is a deduction.
b) Induction wants to know where “A” and “B” came from, how they
are related, and why they are being added together to come up with
“C”
c) The Bible provides the details and then from those details, we can
draw certain conclusions that are either true or false.
THE PRAYER OF JESUS
1. The context recorded by John (13:1) provides the occasion of what will be
said in John 13-17.
2. Jesus is giving to His apostles His ‘final words’ of instruction to prepare them
for what is about to happen—Jesus is going to the Cross.
a. Jesus wants to comfort them and to let them know He is not going to ‘abandon’ them—but rather will send the Holy Spirit to lead them, guide them, and equip them for the rest of their journey (John 16:5-15).
b. Jesus tells them that ‘trouble’ is coming (John 16:31-33).
3. This is what happens before Jesus prays (John 17:1-26).
a. The “our Father who art in heaven” is the model prayer.
b. John 17, in reality is the Lord’s Prayer.
THE HOUR HAS COME
1. Jesus begins His prayer with “the hour has come” (17:1).
2. This expression is found 27 x, 18 of which are in the gospel account of John.
a. The events described in this section of John began with what we read
(13:1)
b. Jesus begins His prayer with this recognition.
RETURN TO GLORY
1. What we know about the ‘narrative’ (Genesis to Revelation) is:
a. God initiated ‘redemptive history’—the purpose of God began to unfold.
b. Christ, the Son of God, entered into ‘redemptive history’ (Gal. 4:4) to
carry forward the means of reconciliation with God (death, burial,
resurrection).
c. The Holy Spirit was sent to consummate and to restore all that had
been lost from the time of Adam and Even onward.
2. Remember the Bible is HIS STORY (Father, Son, Holy Spirit)—GOD
a. It all began with creation (Genesis 1-2) and it all ended with redemption,
reconciliation, and restoration.
b. Baptism is into “the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit” (Matt. 28-18-20)—The Greek word eis means “into” relationship
with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
c. In the book of Acts baptism is “in the name of Jesus Christ” (Acts 2:38)--
Why?
d. Until the time of the cross everyone was being baptized into the “baptism
of John” (Matt. 3)--but after the cross, beginning on the Day of Pentecost,
baptism was now “in the name of” (by the authority of) what had been
accomplished on the cross through the redemptive work of Christ.
1) It is the ‘narrative’ (story) that provides the answers to the why
questions in many instances.
3. Jesus asks His Father to “glorify” Him--“to invest with dignity, majesty,
honor, and excellence”
a. To die on a cross was ‘public humiliation’ (not a shiny piece of jewelry we
wear around our neck)
b. Jesus as “the Word” (John 1:1, 14) had left behind the “glory” He had in
heaven, entered into the human family, and died a horrible kind of death
in sacrifice for us.
c. But just a few days later, Jesus would be resurrected from the death, and after 40 days, ascend into the heavens to be “glorified” with the same “glory” that He shared with the Father “before the world began” (John 17:5).
ALL AUTHORITY
1. After the resurrection, Jesus proclaims that “all authority in heaven and on
earth” (Matt. 28:18) had been given to Him. God was giving to Jesus
“authority over all flesh” (John 17:2) and thus the ability to “give eternal life”
those who place their faith, trust, and allegiance in Him (John 3:16).
2. In the beginning of HIS STORY remember that Adam and Eve were given
“dominion” at the time of their creation (Gen. 1:26-28).
a. This was ‘Federal Headship’ for Adam and Eve to have “dominion” over all
of God’s creation and future “generations” to come.
b. The entrance of the sin and the death (Rom. 5:12) meant that all of
humanity from that time forward would suffer the “consequences” of what
had alienated them from living and thriving in the very presence of
Almighty God.
c. Jesus was sent into the “world” of Adam to defeat sin and death and the
“consequences” of the past--Jesus came as the “last Adam” (I Cor. 15:45).
d. In the place of Adam, Christ was resurrected to sit at the right hand of the Father and to become the ‘Federal Head’ of all humanity.
1) His ‘headship’ does not imply that everyone is automatically ‘saved’
(universalim), but rather that all of humanity was being given a fresh
start to enter into the very presence of God and to live forever with
Him--“eternal life”
2) Sin, disobedience, and alienation from God today has nothing
whatsoever with Adam and Eve, but rather God holds each of us
accountable for our own thoughts, words, and actions.
CONCLUSION
1. I hope today each of us caught a glimpse of God’s majesty
2. I hope today each of us has felt the extent of His love, grace, and mercy in
providing deliverance (salvation) through Christ Jesus.
3. Next week we are going to explore how Christ who was in the “form of God”
left the glories of heaven to become a man.
4. This prayer of Jesus is also discussed in the context of Philippians 2, and I
hope you will take some time to read what Paul writes there and think about
how all of this came about.