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[ Silence ] [Music] I've had many tears and sorrows, I've had questions for tomorrow, There've been times I didn't know right from wrong.

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But in every situation, God gave blessed consolation, That my trials come to only make me strong. I've learned to trust in Jesus, I've learned to trust in God. Through it all, through it all, I've learned to depend upon His word.

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I've been to lots of places, and I've seen a lot of faces. There have been times I didn't feel all alone. But in my lonely hours, yes, those precious lonely hours, Jesus let me know that I was his own.

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Through it all, through it all, I've learned to trust in Jesus, I've learned to trust in God. Through it all, through it all, I've learned to depend upon His Word.

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I thank God for the mountains, and I thank Him for the valleys, I thank Him for the lonesome He brought me through. For if I never had a problem, I would know that He could solve them. I'd never know that faith in God could do.

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True in love, oh, true in love, I've learned to trust in Jesus. ♪ It's my way to trust in God ♪ ♪ Through it all ♪ ♪ Oh, through it all ♪

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♪ My way to defeat the body weight ♪ ♪ Through it all ♪ ♪ Through it all ♪ ♪ I've learned to trust in Jesus ♪

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♪ I've learned to trust in God ♪ ♪ Through it all ♪ ♪ Through it all ♪ ♪ I've learned to depend upon His word ♪

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- Amen. Here this word recorded in the gospel according to Saint John the 13th chapter the 31st and 32nd verses Jesus said

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Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in Him If God be glorified in him God shall also glorify him in himself

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And shall straightway glorify him The subject Glory glory hallelujah Hallelujah.

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Human glory fades. Nineveh, Tyre, Greece, Rome, their pomp and splendor belong to yesterday. their glory is gone.

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Yesterday, the United States was the undisputed leader in the family of nations. Today, Japan and Germany are competing with us for the distinction of having the strongest vibrant economy. Human glory fades.

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It appears as a sudden flash of light and disappears in the darkness. Human glory fades, but the glory of the Lord stays. Glory of the Lord belongs to the realm of

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the Eternal. But human glory is confined to the realm of the temporary. The demonic would have us seek human glory rather than divine. The temptation of Jesus, Satan,

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takes our Lord to the pinnacle of the temple and shows him all the kingdoms of the world. He says, "All this will I give you and the glory of them, "if you will bow down and worship me."

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Jesus declines Satan's offer of worldly glory at the beginning of his ministerial career. He glorifies the eternal. He refuses to be a slave of the temporary.

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Near the end of his earthly ministry, And now the Lord says to his disciples, now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him.

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If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself and shall straightway glorify him. Consider the social context in which these words are spoken.

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They are enveloped in what the fourth evangelist calls the last discourses, or Jesus' farewell messages. It's a time of darkness. Judas the traitor is at the table

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as Jesus observes the Passover with his disciples. While they are sharing table fellowship, Jesus says, "One of you will betray me." Peter beckons to John the beloved

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leans on the master's breast to ask Jesus who is the one. Jesus says that it is he who to whom I shall give a sop when I have dipped it. And he dips the stopped and gives it to Judas and Jesus says to Judas, "What you do, do quickly." Judas leaves the table to carry out his diabolical scheme to betray Jesus. It is

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through this cloud of darkness that the glory of the Lord shines through. Glory of the Lord is the manifestation of the divine presence. Glory of the Lord is the light that shines in darkness and darkness cannot put it out. The glory of the Lord is the cloud that appears over the tabernacle. Moses on one occasion

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says to God, "Show me thy glory." The glory of the Lord is the manifestation of God's presence. During the wilderness it was revealed in the cloudy pillar that accompanied the Israelites by day and the fiery pillow by night. So the glory of the Lord is revealed in darkness. The Gospel of John points up here the

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darkest hour, one of the darkest hours I might say of Jesus' life on earth and it is a time of our Lord's glorification. The glory of the Lord is the manifestation of divine favor. The glory of the Lord is the revelation of God in history. The glory of the Lord is the indwelling presence of God. So during

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this dark hour. Jesus is at the table with Peter who will later that night deny him. And with Judas who will also participate by betraying him. It's a dark hour. And it is at this time that Jesus speaks here of the glory of the Lord. For the glory of the Lord is revealed in the darkest human circumstances. I said that the glory of

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the Lord is revealed in the darkest human circumstances. Mary and Joseph go to Bethlehem to pay their taxes and to participate in the census. It's not a good time for them. Mary is pregnant and the time for her to give birth occurs while they are there. There's no room for them and the birth has to take place in

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a lowly cattle shed. It's a dark time. But the angel of the Lord appear from heaven on that dark night. Shepherds are there keeping watch over their flock and and the gospel writer says that the glory of the Lord shone round about them. The angelic choir sang a heavenly anthem to an earthly audience. The glory of the

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Lord," they said, "is here." And they said, "Glory to God in the highest on earth, peace, goodwill toward men." So the glory of the Lord appears in the midst of darkness. Now the first thing I'd like to point out here is that the Son glorifies the Father.

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The Son glorifies the Father in his life. Jesus glorifies the Father by his willingness to accept the cross. We glorify God through sacrificial suffering. The Son of God is

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obedient to the will of the Heavenly Father. He prays, "If it be thy will, Father, remove this bitter cup." And then he accepts the bitter cup. He becomes obedient even to the death of the cross. So through our sacrifice, our sacrifice for the common good, the glory of the Lord shines in

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our lives. The Son comes to earth, he casts aside the glory he had with the Father from the beginning and on earth the Son finds glory in doing the will of the Father. Peter sought worldly acceptance by denying Jesus. Judas sought worldly acceptance by betraying Jesus. So Jesus glorifies the Father by suffering

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on the cross. He suffers the loss of all things. All earthly support is taken from him. He's misunderstood, he is misrepresented, he's falsely accused and and then crucified. The Son in the midst of it all glorifies the Father by humbling himself. The Son glorifies the Father by permitting himself to be made

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a fool of. So the Spirit and power of the Eternal were manifested in the Son. The will of the Father was performed through the Son. John says of Jesus, "We beheld His glory." That's what John says about it. "We beheld His glory as the Son of the Only Begotten, the Only Begotten Son of the Father." We've beheld his glory.

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Glory, glory. Hallelujah. Jesus' prayer was that he would show himself as the channel of God's glory.

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He was sent to do the Father's will and to give God the glory. A lot of people do well, they excel. And many times the people who helped them to excel, they failed to give them the glory.

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They want the glory all for themselves. But here the son does all of this and says, "Father, all I want you to do is just glorify yourself through me." Surely, he lived, he suffered, he sacrificed so much that even this Roman soldier who was

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at the cross looked and he said, "Surely, surely this is the Son of God." He glorified the Father. Oh, we glorify the Father when we say what the Father wants us to say. We glorify the Father when we do what the Father wants us to do.

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We glorify the Father when we are found being what the Father wants us to be. the Father brought Jesus the agony of the crucifixion. In doing the will of the Father, the Son was banished to the grave. So from beginning to end, the Son glorifies the Father in word, in deed, and in miracles. So the Son glorifies the Father.

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Now the second thing I'd like for us to remember is that the Father glorifies the Son. Isn't that interesting that the Son glorifies the Father and the Father glorifies the Son. So Jesus is in prayer and he says to the Father, "Father, glorify thy name through me." And the Father responds by saying, "Son, I have glorified it, and I will glorify it

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again." So God is glorified in the human. So the divine is glorified through humanity. And that's those who say, "Show us the Father."

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The response is, "Look at the Son." The Son is the essence of the Father. The glory of the Father is in the Son, and the glory of the Son is in the Father. So Jesus' enemies tried to put an end to him.

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crucified him, buried him, but the Father raised him up. You see the Son glorifies the Father in the crucifixion and the Father glorifies the Son in the resurrection. So when you really glorify God by suffering, He'll raise you up. When you really, when you really suffer wrong for God, He'll arrange, He has it so arranged

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that you're going to win. That's the way life is. That's the very essence of our faith. Glory, glory, hallelujah. So when he said at the beginning of his ministry the father John was down at the Jordan being baptized Jesus was at the Jordan being baptized of John and the father said

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this as a dove came and lighted on his shoulder the father says this is my beloved son. He was glorifying him right there as he said this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. Father glorifies the son and then when he was gathered up there on the Mount of Transfiguration with three of his disciples and this heavenly

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light was shining upon him. He had them to know that my beloved son is elevated. He is beyond, he is above Moses and Elijah. He is above the law and the prophets. He was glorifying his son. Well, the father glorifies the son in the resurrection. Oh, they've killed him. They've already written his

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obituary. They said this is the end. But the Father sent an angel from heaven to roll back the stone, and the Father himself raised up Jesus and he went about walking the streets and talking and blessing humanity. Father glorifies the Son. And the Father has not stopped sharing his glory, manifestation of his

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glory. You see God is somewhat disclosed. It's just as if we would take and pull cloth over us, be covered by some cloth, unable to see, and then you start just letting a little of it out, and you let this part out and you see a little of that, and then you let a little more out and you see a little more, and then

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finally at the end you see it all. So all the time, some of us have been walking with the Lord for some time. And God's always revealing a little more of Himself. A little more, a little more, and a little more. Always revealing more of Himself. That we might behold His glory. So the true believer glorifies God through Jesus Christ. That's what we do if you're a true believer. Your life glorifies God

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through Jesus Christ. You live according to Jesus. He becomes the model. His spirit is in our, and dwells in our lives so that we glorify God through His Son Jesus Christ by serving him. So that's what we are to do in the here and now. Serve him on the darkest night. No we have a glory of the Sun. The Sun is

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brilliant. We have the glory of the stars, they shine in the night, but our Lord is beyond these celestial bodies. He outshines the brilliance of the Sun. He's more beautiful than the rainbow. God's glory is the blessings that we receive along life's way and so this glory appears now. It belongs, however, to

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eternity. God wills to glorify himself. There's a question that's raised in the catechism that says, "What is the chief end of man?" And the answer is, "To glorify God and to serve Him forever."

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That's what we're put here for. You know, not to be just a mutual admiration society, but to glorify God and to serve Him forever. And so His glory appears.

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He's always manifesting His glory. I know a lot of things are happening in our land that sometimes people begin to ask, where is God? But He's in the darkness.

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He's manifesting Himself, even in the cloud of darkness as He did of old. God is manifesting His glory, and we can sing glory, glory, hallelujah.

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So it remains for us to give God the glory, his glory. If human beings fail to give God his glory, even the rocks are gonna cry out. So give God glory.

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And as God comes to be with us in the here and now in Jesus Christ and the fullness of God's glory will be revealed and recognized at the end of history. Did you hear what I said?

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The fullness of God's glory. God's glory in its fullness will be recognized at the end of history. And if you want to get just some notion of what it's like, you read John's vision. God gave John just a glimpse of what it's going to be like.

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And he pushed back the curtain that veils time and eternity and let John get a peep into eternity. And John said that, "I looked and I saw four beasts round about the throne and they were cried "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty." And then he said, I looked and

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there were four and twenty elders and they were saying "Glory and honor, blessing and power be unto him that sits upon the throne." The glory of the Lord shall be revealed. Glory of the Lord. And so, my brothers and sisters, if some suffering comes your way, if you've got to walk in the darkness to the dark valley of the shadow of death,

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don't be disturbed because the glory of the Lord is there and the God is revealing his presence and his power in the manifestation of his glory. Glory, glory. Hallelujah. So let the glory be not unto us but unto thee, O Lord, forever and ever and ever. Glory. Glory. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy

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Ghost as it was at the beginning is now and ever shall be. One without end. Amen. Amen. Glory, glory, hallelujah. Glory, glory, hallelujah. Glory, glory, hallelujah. Lord, the church is open. I invite you to come, unite with the people of God and be His servant. A life through whom the glory of the Lord shines.

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We invite you to come. [MUSIC PLAYING] Down at the cross where my Savior died, ♪ Down where the blazing cross did I cry ♪

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♪ There to my heart was the blood I'll cry ♪ ♪ Glory to His name ♪ ♪ Glory to His name ♪ ♪ Glory to His name ♪

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♪ There to my heart was the blood of life ♪ ♪ Glory to his name ♪ ♪ I am so wondrous, the same from sin ♪ ♪ Jesus, the speedy, our lives begin ♪

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♪ There at the cross where he took me in ♪ ♪ Glory to his name ♪ ♪ Glory to his name ♪ ♪ Glory to his name ♪

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♪ There to my heart was the blood of God ♪ ♪ Glory to his name ♪ ♪ Oh precious fountain that saves from sin ♪ ♪ I am so glad I have entered it ♪

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♪ There Jesus saves me and keeps me clean ♪ ♪ Glory to His name ♪ ♪ Glory to His name ♪ ♪ Glory to His name ♪

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♪ There to my heart was the blood of life ♪ ♪ Glory to His name ♪ ♪ Come to this fountain so rich and sweet ♪ ♪ Test my poor soul at my Savior's feet ♪

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♪ The King today, and He may come here ♪ ♪ Glory to His name ♪ ♪ Glory to His name ♪ ♪ Glory to His name ♪

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♪ Fair to my heart was the blood of life ♪ ♪ Glory to his name ♪ [MUSIC] [BLANK_AUDIO]