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Greetings,
Blessings to you all as we enter another week. Yesterday we were blessed to hear from Marty Euper, a long-standing friend and member of our church community. Her testimony revealed that we can always trust God in every season of our lives. Whether He changes our circumstances or is found in our circumstances with us, the miracle is Him in our lives.
The glory of God is His influence in our world. What does that influence look like? When God speaks, life happens! This is His glory. His glory is to give life to us and for us in our world. Life on earth is a testimony to the eternal life with God in heaven.
We are called to be sons and daughters of God who bring the testimony of God’s glory into our world. To receive God’s glory, someone must see what is in heaven and then express what they see into the earth. Prophetic expression must first be seen as it is in heaven. It must then be expressed as a mystery into the earth. Prophetic expression is then made known as a clear declaration of heaven to the earth. After the word is clearly proclaimed, the word which we proclaimed by God is then physically manifested in our everyday lives. This principle is simple; every revelation from God is an invitation to have an encounter with God, to be changed by God, and become something of that revelation to our world.
The glory of God is more than His power. It is a testimony of His character. It’s a testimony of His love. Moses asked to see God’s glory. When Moses asked for God to show him His glory, God put Moses in a rock to keep Him safe for the ways of men cannot comprehend the ways of God in His glory. God’s presence kept Moses safe as Moses found a place by God where he could stand.
Exodus 33:21 And the LORD said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. 22 So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. 23 Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.”
We cannot see the glory of God from a distance. We must find our place by God where He empowers us to stand in the rock of Christ as a son or daughter of God. God’s glory will change us to become a testimony of God’s character, nature, way, power, and authority. It was in the glory of God that God wrote upon the tables of stone the values of a love for God and a love for others. It was in the manifest presence of God that the glory of God came as a mystery to change the way of Moses.
Exodus 34:5-7 Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation
Here we find the introduction to the name of God is “the Lord, the Lord God”. In the Stone’s edition of the Hebrew Torah, the rabbinical commentators address this double “Lord” as implying to the love and goodness of God. They state that when the Lord is put in this double context it implies two things. It means that God is the one who forgives us before we sin knowing the full extent of everything we are ever going to do, and He forgives us after we sin knowing the full extent of everything we have ever done. The very first experience, atmosphere, ambiance, and reality received when we experience God’s presence in our lives is one of forgiveness. What a wonderful thing! The verses go on to read that God is merciful, gracious, longsuffering, abounding in goodness, and abounding in truth. These are all wonderful experiences that flood our lives when God comes to us. These things are the essence of God’s glory. Jesus made a way for us to come near to God and experience these things! We have been reconciled to God in Him. The final verse of this passage reads that God keeps His mercy for thousands. The term “thousands” is an interesting symbolic and prophetic number in Scripture. It implies an aspect of eternity. God owns the cattle on a thousand hills (Ps. 50:10), meaning He owns all the cattle. God is God to a thousand generations (1 Chr. 16:15; Ps. 105:8), meaning He is God forever. A day with the Lord is as a thousand years, meaning His day has no end. Here we see that God wants to show mercy for thousands. He wants to show mercy to everyone, and He wants to show mercy forever!
God forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin. These three things are often confused, but they are different. They are progressively linked, but it is the testimony of sin that leads to death. Iniquity is the weakness that leads to transgression. Transgression is a rebellion in the human heart that leads to sin. The wage of sin is death. God does not kill sinners; sin kills them. Being disconnected from life results in the consequence of death. Where there is iniquity there will be transgression, and where there is transgression there will be sin. God in His amazing character, nature, way, power, and authority comes to forgive us fully. This is even to the root of our sin, the weakness of our hearts. He doesn’t just clear the weakness. He visits the weakness to heal the root cause of every flaw.
God’s character is life-giving. It is the character of love. When we see His glory, we are changed in our character to be loving and life-giving to others.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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