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It is important to see that God has his own glory and Christ his. Many Scriptures could be quoted to show this but perhaps three will suffice to prove the point. |
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Luke 9:26 “He (the Son of man) shall come in his glory, and [in that] of the Father”. |
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2 Corinthians 4:4 & 6 “The glory of the Christ... The glory of God”. |
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Revelation 3:21 “My (Christ’s) throne... My Father... his throne”. |
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Note: thrones suggest glory (Matthew 25:31). |
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Glory is distinction. My glory is what distinguishes me from others. If what I have is common to all it is no glory to me. If for instance I can run, that is no glory to me because most people can run, at least to some extent. However, if I can outrun every one else in the world that is my glory: it is what I excel in. Now when we come to God and Christ we find that each has his own glory. |
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God is omnipotent: the supreme one. Christ said: “My Father... is greater than all” (John 10:29). Paul echoes this when he says there is: “one God and Father of all, who is over all” (Ephesians 4:6). The supremacy of God is elsewhere maintained by Paul when he says that Christ’s head is God (1 Corinthians 11:3). What these passages show is that absolute supremacy is a glory that attaches to God the Father. |
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Then we have the matter of omniscience: all-knowingness. Christ Himself pointed out that not a sparrow falls to the ground without your Father (Matthew 10:29). He is shown to be cognisant of such details which, we may say, are happening all the time. Christ goes on to speak of the numbering of the hairs of the head. Luke 12:6 would confirm, if necessary, that “your Father” in this passage is God. Again, Christ says that times and seasons the Father has placed in his own authority (Acts 1:7). Elsewhere He says that “of that day and hour no one knows,... but [my] Father alone.” (Matthew 24:36). If we turn to the book of Revelation we find that the opening statement is: “Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him”. Clearly God did not tell Christ what he knew already; it would be absurd. Knowing all things is something peculiar to God the Father, though He can and does disclose things to others as we find even in the Old |