John 15:8 English Standard Version (ESV) By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

All that we have read about being a disciple of Christ can bring us to a point of forgetting where we began and the point being made. There is so much information to be digested. As a reminder, this is the third point to be made, God the Father is to be glorified.

Romans 16:27 English Standard Version (ESV) to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.

Over the decades that we have worshipped God it might be noticed that there are some of us that glory in themselves and their own accomplishments. This verse in Romans 16 is to be believed that God the Father can only be glorified through our obedience of faith in Jesus Christ. We can only glorify God the Father in the presence of the abiding Christ. This is why the words “in Christ” appear so often.

This is where Paul warned that the gospel can be preached out of envy. That does not mean that the gospel being preached will not have its full effect on the hearer of the Word. The effect of the gospel on the lost is the purview of God and God alone.

As disciples of Christ we should be aware of the biblical definition of glory and not steal God’s glory for ourselves. That is not a matter of salvation, it is a matter of relationship.

Vine’s Expository Dictionary on glory Strong’s number 1391 “glory” (from dokeo, “to seem”), primarily signifies an opinion, estimate, and hence, the honor resulting from a good opinion. It is used (1) (a) of the nature and acts of God in self-manifestation, i.e., what He essentially is and does, as exhibited in whatever way he reveals Himself in these respects, and particularly in the person of Christ, in whom essentially His “glory” has ever shone forth and ever will do, John 17:5, 24.

In the ways He reveals Himself is God’s glory.