Let Your Glory Fall

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After this message today, we will be taking a break from the “Living Expectantly” series to get into our Easter series for this year.
We have been looking at the two letters that Peter wrote to the church. In , Peter tells the believer to look forward to the things that Christ has done for them so that they could expect these things in their lives.
What Peter had done was taken his first letter to remind the Christian what God had done for them through his son Jesus’ death and resurrection, and here he is reminding them that these things were done for a reason.
And that they should live in them.
And we have been taking the beginning of this year to read through Peters letter and see how we should be living in expectation of the same things.

Live Expectantly in Your Glorious Inheritance

This will give us the daily expectation of a living hope, and enduring genuine faith in our awesome Salvation

Live Expectantly in His Amazing Grace

This will give us the ability to face every day and everything that it throws at us with real joy as the children of God knowing their Father’s heart for them.

Live Expectantly in His Powerful Word

This will Give you the daily expectation of living Free.
Whom the Son has set free is Free Indeed
Expect to know God through His Word

Live Expectantly in Your Spiritual Place & Position

This will bring the expectation to see God move in His Church and bring Life to your Body of Christ Experience
It will cause you to step up and live as the people of God.

Live Expectantly of Change

This will give you the ability to expect that God is moving in you and around you wherever you are.
Believe that because you are there, filled with the presence and power of the living God, that things are going to happen. And things are going to change.

Live Expectantly in His Blessing

Go through every day of life blessing others, because you have so much through Him to give.
Expect that the enemy cannot bring fear and destruction against you but that God will give you a Holy Boldness and an overwhelming peace
Expect to rise up every day with the knowledge in your heart that God is bigger and stronger than what is coming against you and in simple English, God’s Got This!
Expect Victory.
Turn with me to
1 Peter 4:
1 Peter 4:7–19 NKJV
7 But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers. 8 And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.” 9 Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. 10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. 12 Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; 13 but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. 14 If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a busybody in other people’s matters. 16 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this matter. 17 For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? 18 Now “If the righteous one is scarcely saved, Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?” 19 Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.

Expect God’s Glory

When we talk about God’s Glory as it relates to man, we are speaking about the manifestation of God’s presence as it can be perceived by humans.
That means that we are to live expectantly of being examples of men and women who are moved by and empowered by the presence of God.
And so I ask you a question that I used to ask you every Sunday a few years ago. What have you done this week to bring the Glory to God, but I want to change it up a little bit and ask you what do you do every day that allows people around you to see the glory of God in your life?
How are your co-workers seeing the Glory of God (If they don’t know him)?
How do the people who don’t know Jesus in your gym see the glory of God?
How do your family members, who you’ve been praying for, see the glory of God?
They won’t if you don’t expect every day to experience his glory yourself.
They won’t if you don’t live in a way to express the Glory of God outside of yourself.
El Espíritu Santo está en ti para manifestar la Gloria de Dios, tanto por las obras que realiza en ti como por las obras que realiza a través de ti.
The Holy Spirit is in you to manifest the Glory of God, Both by the works that he does in you and the works that he does through you.
And Peter writes to the church and says expect that to happen in your life.
Look at verse 7
1 Peter 4:7 NKJV
7 But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.
1 Peter
Peter says, in your expectation, make it a point of prayer.
My brothers and sisters, let us pray that God’s Glory would be seen in the last days.
Why do I say in the last days, because though I cannot prophecy about the day of Christ’s return, I know that we are 2,000 years closer than Peter was and even he says here that the end of things is at hand.
However on this side of the timeline, we have seen so many more prophecies fulfilled than Peter ever did.
The Bible says that we will know the season. Does any one else have a sense in their spirits that things have run their course? That this think cannot continue much further?
And if you don’t feel it, just look at the evil all around us. (spiritual)

Pray That God’s Glory Would be Evident

so Peter says, don’t worry, just pray about it. Know that God’s greatest outpouring of his glory and his presence will take place in the last days.
But that means that you and I and the rest of the church of Christ have to wake up.
That means that we have to get serious about where (time) we are living in and offer ourselves up to God for his purposes.
And Peter says a great way to do that is to pray.
And yet, you cannot get the church together to pray. But I know that God can.
I think that prayer is threefold:
For us
For us
That we would be in a solid place of Christian living for God to move in us and through us.
That we would recognize the places and relationships and situations that God has us in, so that we can be used
That we would be lead by His Holy Spirit to know how to move
That we would be in a place of spiritual maturity where God gets the Glory.
2. For others
That the Glory of God in and around us would effect them
That they would be receptive to the moving of God’s Holy Spirit in their lives
That there would be greater opportunity for us to minister to them
That they would seek to bring glory to God with their own lives
3. For Time
God is concerned about two things:
The end of time and souls
Let’s pray for the time that we need to do Kingdom work, and let’s work
Let’s pray for the time that we are living in
Pray for time as it relates to people’s lives and the calling of God.
Ephesians 5:15–16 NKJV
15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Ephesians 5:16 NKJV
16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Go back to 1 Peter with me
1 Peter 4:8 NKJV
8 And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.”
1 Peter 4:

Set an Atmosphere for God’s Glory

That happens with what we do today. In this gathering
We are here to declare the goodness of God.
We are here to speak about His salvation
We are here to pray for one another, worship God together and build one another up.
We are here to love one another as we are all children (brothers and sisters) in this huge family of God.
God’s glory falls when God’s people set themselves up for His Glory.
Peter says, pray that God’s glory would be seen in the days that you are living. But he also knows that faith without works is dead
So he says, next get busy about preparing a place for God’s Glory. Get busy about being the people of God’s glory
above all, love one another. And not with just the love that the world has, but with a fervent love.
that’s a love that has or displays a passionate intensity.
It’s loving one another with a love that will not fail
a love that doesn’t get mad
A love that doesn’t walk out
a love that doesn’t hold a tally of what is done against it
It’s AGAPE
He goes on to say that it is this AGAPE love that will cover a multitude of sins
A love that goes the extra mile
This is the key - our love reaches out and seeks those who are out of the fellowship.

Take God’s Glory to the World

it isn’t enough to pray for and make a place for God’s glory if we aren’t going to do anything with it.
1 Peter 4:10–11 NKJV
10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1 Peter 4:
Peter says first do what you have been gifted to do.
Each one has received a gift, now move out in it.
teach, love, speak, touch and minister to each other and those around you.
Secondly, Trust God for all that you do.
Es Dios quien da la habilidad.
It’s God that gives the ability. That means that the ability is spiritual and not natural
God will use our natural characteristics and our personalities
But he wants us to go forth in his ability.
This is what I feel holds the church back. We look at our natural abilities and then say, well I can’t do that. I could never even attempt that.
But Paul said that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
That’s for us too.
Listen church, the time is short.
Christ is coming soon. That’s the ending messages of this series
And we need to get doing. We need to get to work.
The world needs to see God’s Glory. They need to know that He is THE God of the universe
That need to know that He is all powerful. That happens through the Glory of God in His people
You have people around you who are ready to end it all
You have people around you who are hurting and destitute in life
You have people around you who don’t know where to turn.
You have people around who seem to have it all together, but they don’t
You work with them
You drive with them
You live with them
You play with them
You eat with them
Where is God’s glory in all of that?
Expect this progression in your lives church
Let’s pray for God’s Glory
Let’s fill the church with God’s Glory
And Let’s show God’s Glory to the World
Amen?
PRAY
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