Sermon 2853 - The Father and Son's Gratitude Glory....(Tue pm 11/24/2009)

THE FATHER AND SON’S GRATITUDE GLORY.....(TUE PM 11/24/2009)

(Thanksgiving) Gratitude Glory produces unity. In Isaiah 55:11, the LORD said that His Word will not return unto Him void. The Word is always sent to someone special. When Jesus was hanging on the Cross, there was only one person around the Cross, at that given moment, who recognized the Glory and, therefore, recognized that the LORD was the Master and the Owner, and that one person was one of the malefactors. There were four people hanging on crosses around the Cross of Jesus; there were two malefactors and two thieves, two on the right and two on the left. But there is the upper right and the lower right and the upper left  and the lower left. So  their positions around the Cross relate to the four corners of the LORD’s tetragrammaton His Holy Name.

This one malefactor got a taste of the Gratitude Glory that hung over Jesus, and he became very grateful that His Saviour was hanging there on the Cross for him. This Gratitude Glory is “teaching” Glory. Nobody taught the malefactor about the LORD’s Kingdom, but the malefactor said, “[L]ord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom” (Luke 23:42). He knew that Jesus was going to His Kingdom. He knew that the Master was going to pay the price and buy back the Kingdom of God, the Name, that had been taken captive by the sins of mortal man in all four Creations.