THE WORD AND THE IMAGE OF GOD IN YOU

                   THE WORD AND THE IMAGE OF GOD IN YOU



Sometimes we think, I am going to turn over a new leaf in my life. I am going to make some changes.

We get all excited, ready to shake off those bad habits that have been haunting us. We want to step into Gods best. Then something happens to change it all.

Our determination weakens, our new leaf begins to look similar to our old leaf, suddenly we are right back where we started.

Nothing has changed and I’m starting to doubt if things will ever change.

This has happened to all of us more times than we would like to admit. It doesn’t need to happen again.

God has given us the power to make permanent changes in our lives and in our circumstances. If we understand an important principal. It is the principal of inner image.

Ephesians 5:1-2    5 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

² And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

When God created the earth, he took the principal of His inner image and added faith and the power of His words.

If we are going to imitate our heavenly Father we must put the principal of His inner image to work.

Don’t waste your time trying to dream up an inner image all on your own. That is nothing more than positive thinking.

What you need is to use a basis for your inner image and for the words you speak to be the word of God. The word has supernatural power.

Proverbs 18:21   ²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

When you make Jesus the Lord of your life, you receive not power but authority in his name. the words you speak are so powerful that you can speak life or death to both your physical body, your soul, and your spiritual life.

We must understand what this verse is representing before you speak. God hears you; Satan hears you and every demon hears you. never speak negative. This will cause demonic forces to take action in your life.

Fill your words with faith and speak it out. It will work to change your circumstances as surely as it did for God himself.

Romans 4:17   ¹⁷ (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

Which means your words can change things which don’t exist in the natural realm by transferring those things from the supernatural into existence by faith. We as Christians should be living on the fact of what God says we can do, not on what we think we cannot change.

When God wanted light He said, let there be light. The words he spoke were directly related to his inner image.

He used his words to get that image from the inside of himself to the outside.

Words are powerful, they are containers that carry faith, and love. Words can also carry fear and hate. Words are so important that they can determine our eternal destiny.

The authority we have to speak words is not had by any other creature on earth. Words can destroy or they can create.

They take an inner image and project it to the outside world. Once you understand this principal you can put your inner image to work in your life.

You may be working to be a winner while seeing yourself as a loser. You may want to know how you can change that. You change it with the word of God.

Our words not only release the creative forces of faith, they also produce images in our heads. When you hear the word cat your mind forms a picture of a cat.

What we are talking about here is getting your inner image lined up with the word of God.

John 1:1-4   1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

² The same was in the beginning with God.

³ All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

⁴ In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

All things were made by the word.


Hebrews 11:3   ³ Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at Gods command. That what we see now did not come from anything that can be seen.

Everything that is, or has been, or ever will be, was brought about either directly or indirectly by the word of God. Words are packed with faith.

In fact, that faith is the energy that is in the word that gives it the power to bring itself to pass.


Isaiah 55:11    ¹¹ So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

Gods word is a living thing. It is alive with Gods own faith. By the power of the Holy Spirit, you have faith inside of you as a born-again believer.

When your inner image matches Gods word then your faith can produce the end result that God desires for it to produce.

But you must realize that when you put these principals to work in your life, you are going to run into some heavy resistance from Satan.

He will do all he can to stop you because as a co-worker with God you become Satan’s enemy.

For us to become image minded we must first become word minded. Then we must believe by faith that Gods word is truth.

It’s the truth of Gods word that becomes effective when we believe by faith. Faith is the substance that moves things from your image on the inside of you to the physical outside of you.

It moves things that are not, to the things that are.


Hebrews 11:1    Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

For all this to happen you must always be righteous conscious. “Standing in righteousness”

HAVING A RIGHTEOUS CONCIOUS

HAVING A RIGHTEOUS CONCIOUS

2^ND Timothy 2: 19…¹⁹ Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ departs from iniquity.


When we accept Jesus as Lord and Savior, and the finished work of the cross, we become a new creation.


At that moment that we accept Jesus, the Holy Spirit seals this new spirit, or new creation, and lives or dwells in us.

2 Corinthians 5:17-18   ¹⁷ Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

¹⁸ And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

As the Holy Spirit dwells in us, we have access to his wisdom, understanding and discernment of the word. Discern means to know the difference between right and wrong, or the truth.

The Holy Spirit reveals Gods wisdom, to our spirit, keeping us on the path of righteousness.

We are heirs to the kingdom of God and no devil in hell can take this away from you.



John 10: 27-30… ²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
²⁸ And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
²⁹ My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
³⁰ I and my Father are one.

No one can take you out of Jesus’ hand, and even if they could, they can’t take you out of the Fathers hand… Jesus and the Father are as one…

Hebrews 13: 5… ⁵ Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Jesus says, I will never leave you or forsake you… and by no means will I ever forsake you, we must believe that.

2 Corinthians 5: 21…For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

God made Jesus to be sin for us… who knew no sin… Jesus died so we could live, he was born to die.

He died so that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.

He was made sin so we could be made righteous

He did nothing to be made sin; we did nothing to be made righteous.

Matthew 7: 21-23… ²¹ Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
²² Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
²³ And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Someone might say, just because you are saved, doesn’t mean you will go to heaven.

That automatically puts you on the works mentality.

If you believe that, and except it, you will revert back to the Law, doing things under your own effort… you will fail.

That is where Satan wants to keep you; he knows that he can defeat you if you are in your own effort.

This is the reason we must stay with a righteous conscious…

These people Jesus was talking to were not Christians, had they been he would have known them.

What he was saying, never at any time did I have a relationship with them, that I knew them.

Here is what he said, depart from me, you workers of iniquity, for I never knew you

These people depended on their works and not what Jesus did at the cross.

He accused these people of their iniquities…

Before you can use that scripture, you have to figure out who are these people saying Lord, Lord

Who are these people that are questioning, have I not prophesied in your name?

Luke 6: 46… ⁴⁶ And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

These people never did prophecy, they did cast out demons…they never did good works, they were deceived.

Many people today think signing a card, joining a church, being baptized and many wonderful works of the flesh, believing works produce salvation.

So many people have been trained that the wonderful works will save you, works will not save you.

These people that Jesus is speaking about are not born-again believers…

They were not operating in the spiritual gifts, and fell away, and became reprobates.

Romans 1:28-29… ²⁸ And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

²⁹ Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

A reprobate mind is a person rejected by God. They are excluded from or beyond the hope of salvation.

A worker of the flesh is a worker of iniquity.

The wages of sin is for the worker of iniquity

The gift of righteousness is for the believer.

If you are a believer and have been born again, he will know you; you are what God made you.

PARTAKERS OF GODS DIVINE NATURE

PARTAKERS OF GODS DIVINE NATURE

Divine = relating to or characteristic of God as a divine nature in the highest degree.

2 PETER 1:3-4   ³ According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

⁴ Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

According to Gods divine purpose for our life He has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness.

Whereby, we are given exceedingly great and precious promises, that we can be partakers of Gods divine nature.

The power to lead a godly life comes from God. God allows us to share in his divine nature.

In order to keep us from sinning, he helps us to live for Him, by empowering us with his own goodness.

“To empower means to give power or authority to authorize or give ability to.”

The Holy Spirit endued us with the ability or has empowered us with God’s own goodness so we are able to live a life of godliness.

Also sharing His divine nature with us lets us escape the corruption that is in the world through lust.

According to verse three, through His divine power he has made all things possible for life and godliness, which is your natural life and your spiritual life.

God wants you to use your faith which is your servant to declare all things, which is His promise to you through Christ Jesus.

Matthew 6:33   ³³ But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Seek God and His kingdom first and through His divine power that Jesus made possible through His death, burial and resurrection, all these things that pertain to life and godliness will be added unto you.

But first we must seek Gods kingdom and His love, because faith works by love.

1 Corinthians 13: 1-3    Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

² And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

³ And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

Charity is a God like love for people, the supreme act of goodness toward one another.

Paul is saying, if I could speak in any language in heaven or on earth, but didn’t love others I would be making a meaningless noise.

And if I have the gift of prophecy and if I knew all the mysteries of the future and everything about everything, but didn’t love others, what good would I be.

And if I had the gift of faith, so that I could speak to a mountain and make it move, without love I would be no good to anybody.

Love is why God created man. He wanted a family to love. The two commandments that Jesus left to us was to love one another as I have loved you, and to love one another, to love your neighbor as yourself. These were commandments not suggestions.

If I didn’t have love for others, I would be no value whatsoever. Love never gives up, never loses faith, and endures through every circumstance.

Never the less, to live in Gods promises we must learn how to activate Gods manifestation of the things we desire when we pray.

This is why faith with love is the key, if we have faith like Abraham, God will bring into existence what didn’t exist before: calling those things which be not as though they were.

Romans 4:17   ¹⁷ (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

Which means you can speak things which don’t exist in the natural realm by transferring things into existence, by faith, in the supernatural realm.

After the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, new laws were established in the heavens by grace.

By faith through grace, in love “which is a must” we can move God, and receive from heaven Gods blessings, by divine power and trusting God, by believing He will do what His word says He will do.

God has ways of blessing us by his supernatural angelic forces, and through people.

John 14: 13-14   ¹³ And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

¹⁴ If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

When Jesus say’s we can ask for anything, we must remember that our asking must be in His name, according to Gods word, God will not grant requests contrary to the nature of His word.

No sin in your life, no aught against someone. God will not answer your prayer if you have these two things in your life. He will not answer if there is something he told you to do that you did not do, or something he has already done.

Matthew 21: 21-22   ²¹ Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, if ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.

²² And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

To better explain the last two chapters, first, God the father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit absolutely want the best for the children of God. Everything God created, mankind who are believers, have access to, by faith through grace and love.

God has a number of ways to manifest and transfer the things we want. However, He knows the future and will not answer a prayer that He knows will harm us now or in the future.

You wouldn’t give a ten-year-old your car keys, and send him to the store… but according to Philippians 4:19, He will meet all our needs.

Don’t focus so much on the things of the world, but stay focused on eternal things… for instance Heaven.

1 Corinthians 13:8-10   1 Corinthians 13:8-10 King James Version (KJV

⁸ Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

⁹ For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

¹⁰ But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

There is going to be a time when all these things cease to be, but charity which is love will never fail.

It is human nature to put one’s confidence in that which will fail. instead of investing in that which is eternal. Prophecies tongues and knowledge will all vanish once they have served their purpose, but love never fails. 

Love will last forever, but prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will all disappear. At that time, we will experience God’s giving selfless love. The God kind of love that Jesus walked in.

The supernatural love walk of God is where we need to be, if we are going to reap the blessings and manifestation that Jesus made possible for us through grace.

Why is love the greatest of all these? When Christ Jesus makes all things new and his followers are ushered into the eternal state, faith will no longer be necessary because the redeemed will see God face to face.

Hope will no longer be necessary because their hope will have been perfectly realized. But love will remain and it will finally be known without the taint of sin.

Every Christian is a ministering instrument to serve God and one other, in this God giving love walk, that is what Jesus demonstrated for us.

James 1:5   ⁵ If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

If you want to know what God wants you to do, ask Him about the ability to make wise decisions in difficult circumstances.

John 16:13-15   ¹³ Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

¹⁴ He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

¹⁵ All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

Jesus is saying, this is what I mean when I say that he will show you my glory, in just a little while I will be gone and you won’t see me anymore: but a little while after that you will see me again.

Jesus said the Holy Spirit would tell them about the future, the nature of their mission and the opposition they would face, and what would be the final outcome of their efforts.

Mark 6:41-42   ⁴¹ And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.

⁴² And they did all eat, and were filled.

The manifestation of gifts by the Holy Spirit was upon Jesus’ ministry, but the gift of tongues and the interpretation of tongues didn’t manifest until after the cross.

When you become a pastor or teacher the Spirit of increase, supernaturally is on your life in your ministry.

At the time you become a preacher/teacher you are responsible for the power of increase in the congregation.

The anointing of a pastor is the same anointing as is on a teacher. There is only one anointing, the Holy Spirit.

When you become a teacher/preacher you should totally give yourself to God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, that way the spirit of God can give you the gifts of the spirit. a discernment and anointing. The Holy Spirit can elevate the anointing to the level he wishes, all the power you need to get the sermon or lesson taught.

That is how with Gods love walk, and the increase of wisdom, your life can be blessed in abundance.

We become partakers of Gods divine nature by love.

LEARNING ABOUT THE GLORY OF GOD

LEARNING ABOUT THE GLORY OF GOD

There are three things that I want you to focus on today concerning the glory of God.

First…What is the glory of God?

Second…Walking in the glory of God.

Third…How to unlock the mystery of Gods glory.


2 Corinthians 4:6-7    ⁶ For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.


Revelation 22:5   ⁵ And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

During the millennial reign the light source will be from Gods glory.

John 1:1-8   1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

² The same was in the beginning with God.

³ All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

⁴ In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

⁵ And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

⁶ There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

⁷ The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.

⁸ He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.

Genesis 1:3-5   ³ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

⁴ And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

⁵ And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

He gives the light of knowledge of His glory that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ through us.

This precious treasure, this light and power that now shines within us, is held in a perishable container. Which is our weak and frail bodies.

Before Jesus came, we had no way of knowing the glory of God or the fulness of God.

John 1:14-17   ¹⁴ And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

¹⁵ John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.

¹⁶ And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

¹⁷ For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ

John is saying we have received his fulness by grace through faith. The law of Moses was to let us realize that we needed a savior and Jesus fulfilled that by grace and truth. We did not have grace until Jesus came.

John 2:11   ¹¹ This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.

In the beginning of Jesus’ miracles his glory was manifested. Jesus was demonstrating supernatural power over natural things.

The message of salvation in Christ Jesus has been entrusted by God the father to frail and fallible human beings.

Gods power dwelling in us, even though we are weak. God uses us to spread the gospel, and He gives us power to do his work, our responsibility is to let people see God through us.

What is the glory of God?

Gods glory is the manifested presence of God in us through Christ Jesus, His resurrected son: made manifest in our life by faith through the Holy Spirit.

The hope of glory is Christ the anointed one in us… Gods own son. When the Glory of God departed from them, they became naked. They were clothed in Gods glory until they sinned.

Romans 5:1-2   5 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

² By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.



Keep in mind the two-sided reality of the Christian life, on one side we are complete in Christ Jesus, and our acceptance with him is secure, on the other hand, we are growing in him and becoming more and more like him, but we still have to deal with the soul and body and the devil.

We feel both the presence of Christ and the pressure of sin. We enjoy the peace that comes from being made right with God, but we still face daily problems that help us to grow.

Second… walking in the glory of God.

Ephesians 1:16-18   ¹⁶ Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

¹⁷ That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

¹⁸ The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Honor and Glory are in God’s presence.

Romans 8:18   ¹⁸ For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

What we suffer now is nothing compared to the Glory he will give us later.

Romans 6:14   ¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Sin will never again be our master; we are free under Gods favor and mercy through grace.

Because of Gods mercy and grace, sin can not have dominion over us. Because of Gods glory under grace sin can’t stay in the presence of Gods glory. That is why when Jesus was dying on the cross he was taking in himself our sins and since sin cant stay in Gods glory, God had to turn away from Jesus.


Matthew 27:46   ⁴⁶ And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Today, we can’t walk in the very glory of God the father, because of sin in our life.

His own glorious presence would zap us off the face of the earth.

We all want Gods grace and Gods glory upon our lives, but God can not change us until we ourselves change first. When we are full of sin and disobedience Gods glory can not come on us for it will burn us up.

Romans 3:22-23   ²² Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

²³ For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

We as believers are in His Glory thru Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit. We can walk in the glory of God because of the death and resurrection of Christ Jesus, after we make him Lord of our life.

The glory of God or Gods presence flows thru Jesus. Giving life to the body, which is the believers or the church.

His life is the light that shines thru the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.

John 10:10   ¹⁰ The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

We are supposed to be disciples of Christ. Just like the original twelve, somewhere between those disciples in Jesus’ time and the disciples “the believers” of today. It appears that at times we are mighty weak.

We don’t see very many disciples today raising the dead, casting out devils or healing the sick. It is hard to get people to even go to church.



Acts 5:15   ¹⁵ Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.

It goes to say, that At least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them that they might be healed.

Mark 16:15-18   ¹⁵ And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

¹⁶ He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

¹⁷ And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

¹⁸ They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

When Christ Jesus finished his work on earth, he sent the Holy Spirit to us to empower us with the same anointed power he had and gave it to the disciples.  We are to be doing the same things that the disciples did, because his word tells us to do just that.

John 14:12    ¹² Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

Mark 5:34   ³⁴ And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.

We are working under the divine anointed power of the Holy Spirit. Just as the disciples and Jesus did. There is only one power of the Holy Spirit.



Third … how to unlock the mystery of Gods glory.


Acts 5:15   ¹⁵ Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.

The church fails to understand that it wasn’t Peters shadow that healed them. It was the manifestation of God’s glory that surrounded him. The healing was the very manifestation of the presence of God himself in Peter.

That is why God put hope in us to expect the Glory, not just the healing.

God wants us to lift our expectations higher than that. He wants us to expect the glory. If we do that, we will have the rest.

There is healing in the Glory, there is finances in the glory. Everything you need is in the glory of God.

If believers had the revelation of the truth that the anointed one lives in us, we would act like a different church. The people are his church.

The word which is the revelation of Gods will, takes us into His Glory.

This won’t work on paper. It has to work inside of you. Remember the glory is the presence of God, in you, through Christ Jesus.

In other words, that warm glowing feeling that we get from the glory of God within us, is not of us.

God says the whole earth will be filled with His glory.

The word glory in Hebrew means… Heavy with everything good.

This actually means God is heavy with everything good that you could ever want or need.

Ezekiel 8:2   ² Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the color of amber.

Here Ezekiel is describing the glory as the fire of God, The wind of God, the smoke of God and the fullness of God.

It’s all the glory of God, because the glory refers to the supernatural life and the very essence of God… the very power that makes Him God.

You might say that kind of awesome glory is reserved for God and God alone. But not according to the bible.

Psalms 8:5   ⁵ For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor.

Here the word is speaking of Adam. However, Adam lost his glory and Crown when he caused treason in the garden of Eden. Now mankind has to earn their crowns.

James 1:12   ¹² Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

This is telling us that in the beginning that man was crowned with that glory.

Do you know what it means to be crowned with his glory?

When God put his hand on Adam and Eve’s head and crowned them with His glory, he crowned them with His own presence.

It means to anoint or pour on. They began to shine just like God shines.

That is why they didn’t have to wear clothes. They were clothed with the glory of God.

But their glory was lost to mankind when Adam sinned.

Man, regained that glory by the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, by the Holy Spirit, and the same power in you in Christ Jesus.