The Power Of God's Glory Series

Revelation 5:12-13 -- Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, [be] unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

Revelation 16:9 -- And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. {Scorched: or, burned}

IV. The power associated with God’s glory is GOVERNING POWER (Luke 4:8 – get thee behind me Satan).

A. Jesus exercised the authority associated with God’s glory when He commanded Satan to take his palce behind Him.

B. Authority in all other realms stems from some other source and ultimately God controls it.

C. Our God reigns! This is true in events, in life, in health, in sickness, in chaos, in the seen, in the unseen, in things great or small, in things bright or dull, in things convenient or tragic. Nothing overrules God. From the highest peak, as far as one can see, God rules it all. Then if one looks into the depths of the ocean, God controls all in that realm as well. This is not all. One can look up into the sky and far beyond the reach of the most powerful telescope, and God is there and in control. Were it possible to view the workings of the microscopic and nuclear worlds, we would have no power more than what God grants us. When man goes to the top of a high mountain, he must borrow the power of bottled oxygen and temperature resistant clothes and shelter. When he flies in the air, man must borrow the power of an airplane. To go into outer space he must borrow the power of rockets and life support systems. When descends into the sea, he must borrow the power of diving gear or even a submarine. When he lives on earth in his normal habitat mankind has to borrow the power of food shelter, even companionship. Every realm where man ventures, he does not fully govern. God does however. He rules everywhere. Man has difficulty governing himself and the workings of his own heart and spirit. But God is sovereign there as well. Even in redemption and damnation God rules. His power is glorious governing power filling both Heaven and Hell.

Hebrews 1:1-3 -- God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

I Chronicles 29:11 -- Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.