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NASB | John 12:28 "Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came out of heaven: "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 12:28 "[Rather, I will say,] 'Father, glorify (honor, extol) Your name!'" Then a voice came from heaven saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again." |
Bible Question:
How can I glorify God? Sometimes it seems I can do so by simply being. We are fearfully and wonderfully made. As Shakespeare’s Hamlet noted in amazement: “What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!” And yet, he asks, “And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?” “Man delights not me”, he says. God made man in his own image. All things, including man, all things in heaven and in earth were made by him, and for him. God wants to take pleasure in us, and we are supposed to show forth his glory. And yet God has to strive with man. And God says in Genesis 6:3, “My spirit shall not always strive with man”. And God says (Isaiah 45:9) “Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker!” “Drop down, ye heavens, from above”, He says, “and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together”. “Let righteousness spring up”. So I would yield myself to please him, to glorify him. But how can I do that? He is at work within me to will and to do his good pleasure. But even now there are stirrings within me to things and to say things that will accomplish the opposite. How can I glorify God? |
Bible Answer: Jesus said unto Peter, “Feed my sheep”. And then he said, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When you were young, you girded yourself, and walked whither you would: but when you shall be old, you shall stretch forth your hands, and another shall gird you, and carry you whither you would not”. John said that he spoke this, signifying by what death he should glorify God. It is apparent, then, that we can glorify God in our death. Scripture does not tell us how Peter died, but it must be as Jesus said, that he glorified God in his death. And others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were slain with the sword: John Foxe tells of others. Examples: “Calepodius, a Christian Minister, thrown into the River Tyber, with a Mill Stone fastened to his Neck. Saturinus, Bishop of Thoulouse fastened by the Feet to the Tail of a Bull, and Dragged down the Steps of the Temple, etc. by which his Brains were dashed out. Flaying Primitive Christians alive and cutting out their Tongues during the 10th fiery Persecution. St. Lawrance Burnt on a Gridiron, by order of the Emperor Valerianus, in the 8th Roman Persecutions of the Christian Church. Another mode of Torture inflicted on the Primitive Martyrs, by the Emperor Dioclesian, Vinegar and Salt being poured on the most tender parts while roasting. Two Primitive Martyrs put into a Copper of Boiling Oil by order of the Preconsul of Ephesus, during the Reign of Nero, A.D. 69. Martyrdom of Cassian, a Christian Schoolmaster of Imola, who was scourged and beat to Death by his own Scholars, for refusing to Sacrifice to Idols. Martyrdom of Julietta, a Liconson, who was Racked to Death, and her Child hurled on the Ground before her face by which its Brains were dashed out. Marcus, Bishop of Arethusa rubbed with honey hung up in a Basket, and Stung to Death by Wasps. Two Sisters of Simeon Bisop of Salencia, in Persia, sawed into quarters which were hung up in different parts of the City. A Bookseller Burnt at Avignon in France, for selling Bibles in the French Tongue, with some of them tied round his Neck. Fourscore Christian Ministers Burnt together in a Ship by order of Valens, Emperor of Rome. Hermenigildus, Prince of the Goths, and an Orthodox Christian, Hewn to Pieces by order of his Father, for refusing to change his Religion. Stanislaus, Bishop of Cracow, Murder'd at the Altar, by Bolesiaus King of Poland". Most of us die quiet deaths. May we all glorify God by having those who come behind us to say, “These all died in faith”. |