Make no mistake about it, the gospel of Jesus Christ is the most glorious news in all the earth.
If you are someone who hungers for the glory of God then you need to be someone who is awed by, and in love with, the gospel.
2Corinthians 3:5 It is not that we think we are qualified to do anything on our own. Our qualification comes from God. 6 ¶ He has enabled us to be ministers of his new covenant. This is a covenant not of written laws, but of the Spirit. The old written covenant ends in death; but under the new covenant, the Spirit gives life. 7 The old way, with laws etched in stone, led to death, though it began with such glory that the people of Israel could not bear to look at Moses’ face. For his face shone with the glory of God, even though the brightness was already fading away. 8 Shouldn’t we expect far greater glory under the new way, now that the Holy Spirit is giving life? 9 If the old way, which brings condemnation, was glorious, how much more glorious is the new way, which makes us right with God! 10 In fact, that first glory was not glorious at all compared with the overwhelming glory of the new way. 11 So if the old way, which has been replaced, was glorious, how much more glorious is the new, which remains forever!
Moses, the man who God used to deliver Israel from Egypt and give them the law of God, had a glory that was fading. He had been to the mountain and spoke with God, and when he descended, the glory of God was on him so intensely that he had to cover his face. But the glory Moses had experienced that had shone so brightly was fading behind the veil.
When the law came to Israel it came with the glory of God. But the glory it brought was a fading glory!
The glory that Jesus brought with Him is a lasting glory that never fades. It is an eternal glory realized only through Jesus Christ and received by grace through faith. So why are so many believers behaving like Indiana Jones and going on a crusade to retrieve the lost glory?
About The Author
- Tim Atchley
- Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
- I currently serve as Senior Pastor of Harvest Church in Knoxville, Tn. I was sent out from Trinity Chapel of Knoxville in 1993 accompanied by my wife Sheila our four children Sarah, Hannah, Josiah & Isaac and a handful of bold, brave and committed believers determined to plant our first church. Pioneering is hard work but well worth the journey. That is why we desire to make disciples of Christ who will, like us, also embrace the call to plant churches.
