Sermonette: I Can Only Imagine
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Clyde Finklea
Given 17-Oct-24; 17 minutes
description: (hide) Young people, when emphasizing something to be extremely important, use the slang expression, "Man, that's heavy." Interestingly, the common word for glory derives from a root meaning "to be heavy." To have glory means to metaphorically have the weight of riches, the weight of power, the weight of position, referring to honor, reputation, or possessions. The phrase "the glory of the LORD" appears so often we begin to understand that it refers to more than one attribute of God, but instead all His intrinsic and eternal perfections, the sum and substance of all His attributes, the totality of all His inherent majesty. It is impossible to gaze into the starry heavens and fail to see the glory of God, revealing His wisdom and infinity. According to National Graphic World, to cross the entire universe as we now know it would take us 20 billion light years. In Romans 8:29-30, Paul teaches us that the predestinated called out saints, when God finishes His creative work, will be like Jesus Christ, offspring of Almighty God and will see Him as He is (I John 3:1-2). Bart Millard, in his ballad "I Can Only Imagine," lyrically imagines what it would be like to be in front of God in all His glory!!