(Singing) I know my God
has made the way for me. I know my God has
made the way for me. ANNOUNCER: The glory of God is
the resurrection power that raised Jesus from the
dead. Join Gloria Copeland and Billye Brim for today's
Believer's Voice of Victory to find out how that glory brought
salvation to all who believed. GLORIA: Hello, everybody.
I'm Gloria Copeland. Welcome to the Believer's Voice
of Victory. Billye Brim is with us from Prayer Mountain in the
Ozarks, and she is giving us some very interesting
information. BILLYE: It's interesting because it's the
glory of God. GLORIA: Hallelujah. BILLYE: And the
glory of God is the presence of God-- GLORIA: Yes. BILLYE: --the
presence of God manifested. We've been studying the glory,
and I have shared that in my study of the glory, I came to
call the Bible, "The Story of the Glory." GLORIA: That's a
good title. BILLYE: And Adam was crowned with the glory. He fell
from the glory. God was separated from His man for 2,000
years. And then the glory of God makes its reentry. GLORIA: Mm.
BILLYE: He was separated from man because it was too dangerous
for man. The earth fell into a curse, and it was too dangerous
for man for the--for the glory of God to come upon him or near
him. And so then the reentry of the glory. We see Moses going
aside to the bush, the burning bush. And then we see Moses come
back, and God meets with His people there on the mountain. He
gets as close to them as He can. And He tells them, "Build me a
house where I can--where I can meet with My people." GLORIA:
Praise God. BILLYE: And so they build Him the tabernacle. And as
close as He can come to mankind, He comes. He does it in steps
and stages. That's how it is with the glory. And so the
tabernacle in the wilderness was built according to the plan of
God. And then Moses finished the work in Chapter 40, Exodus. And
then God moves on to a permanent house for His glory in
Jerusalem. And the great temple was built there. And that temple
that was built in II Chronicles Chapter 1-5--no. II Chronicles
5, it tells us that God moved into that. And the glory of the
Lord filled that temple. GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: And that
temple that stood there on that mountain, it was really one of
the wonders of the world. And every day, over that temple,
there were miracles that were happening. And one of them was,
no matter what the weather was, how the wind blew, anything, the
smoke of the altar went straight up to God. It never wavered.
GLORIA: It never. BILLYE: And the glory was seen going
straight up to God. GLORIA: Wow. BILLYE: The glory and the fire
and the cloud was there as long as Israel lived the way God told
them to. But because they had the glory among them and they
were in the Holy Land, when Israel was tempted to sin, that
can't go on. GLORIA: Hmm-mm. BILLYE: And so God is going to--
GLORIA: "Of much is given, much is required." BILLYE: Much is
required. GLORIA: Much had been given to them. BILLYE: And their
temple was destroyed. But here's a point that sometimes we
miss. The temple could not be destroyed as long as the glory
was there. You cannot destroy the temple if it's the house of
God's glory and the presence of His glory is in there. So the
book of Ezekiel is about something that Christians miss
sometimes. It's about the temple and the glory exiting the
temple. So that's what it's about. You know, you hear the
song, "Ezekiel saw the wheel way up in the middle of the air."
Well, this chariot of God, this chariot of God is coming to
escort the glory out of the temple. And so we see about it
in Ezekiel 1:4. "And I looked--" Now, Ezekiel, he's over in
Babylon. He's been--he's with his people. GLORIA: Yeah.
BILLYE: He's a priest, and he's over in Babylon. Their temple
has been destroyed. As far as they know, they have no more
contact with God. But God's going to give them a book here
and tell them it's not over. GLORIA: Mm. BILLYE: But Ezekiel
then, he sees the glory leave the temple. And that's what this
chariot of God is all about. It's going to escort the glory,
escort the presence from the temple. And so Ezekiel, in
Chapter--Ezekiel 1:4, "And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind
came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding
itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst
thereof as the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
And there were four living creatures." Now you go onto
Verse 15. "As I beheld the living creatures, behold one
wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four
faces. The appearance of the wheels and their work was like
unto the color of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and
their appearance and their work was as a wheel in the middle of
the wheel." And then down to Verse 20. "Wherever the spirit
was to go, they went, thither was the spirit to go; and the
wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of
the living creature was in the wheels." So what we actually
find is that this is a chariot of God. And this chariot of God
is sent--it's, of course, glorious. And it's sent to take
the glory out of the temple. GLORIA: Mm. BILLYE: So in
Chapter 3 and Verse 12, "Then the spirit took me up," talking
about Ezekiel Chapter 3:12, "and I heard behind me a voice of a
great rushing--" he hears a voice, "--saying, "Blessed be
the glory of the Lord from this place--his place." Now, that
word "from" means "as He departs." The glory of the Lord
is going to depart, it's coming from that place where it's been.
GLORIA: Mm. BILLYE: And now, if you go over to Verse 22, "And
the hand of the Lord was there upon me; and he said unto me,
Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will talk with you. And I
arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of
the Lord stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river
of Chebar: and I fell on my face." So we're going to see
this glory move out to the plain. And he takes the steps of
it. If you'll go to Exodus 10, we can watch the steps of this
glory as it departs the temple. Remember, the glory is in the
temple, and it's over the mercy seat. It's over where the
cherubs are. So Chapter 10, Ezekiel, says in Verse 4,
Chapter 10, Verse 4, "Then the glory of the Lord went up from
the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the
house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the
brightness of the Lord's glory." So the glory of the Lord, the
presence of the Lord at that time was confined to the mercy
seat over the ark of the presence. And now we see that
this glory of the Lord is going to move from over the mercy
seat, and it's going to move out to the threshold, and it's going
to move into the court. Remember the temple has the outer courts
and the inner courts and then it has the holy of holies. It's
moving out from the holy of holies, moving to the courts.
Verse 18, "Then the glory of the Lord departed from off the
threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim." And
then the end of Verse 19, "And the glory of the God of Israel
was over above them." It moved up, moved out, moved over. Now
Chapter 11 and Verse 22. Chapter 11, Verse 22, "Then did the
cherubim lift up their wings--" Remember the cherubim who are
with this chariot of the Lord, "--and the wheels besides them;
and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above." So
here comes this wheel-within-a-wheel chariot,
and the glory of the Lord is over it. They're escorting it
out. They are the holy escort. Verse 23, "And the glory of the
Lord went up from the midst of the city--" okay, it's moved out
from the holy of holies, it's moved over to the courts, and
now it's above this vehicle. And now, where is it? "--it stood
upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city." So
what mountain is that? That's the mountain--that's the Mount
of Olives. So the glory of the Lord moves out from this Mount
Moriah, it moves out from where the tabernacle is--I mean, not
tabernacle, but the Ark of the Covenant, moves out of the holy
of holies, moves over to the court, moves over the city, and
then it goes over to the Mount of Olives. GLORIA: Hmm. BILLYE:
And from the Mount of Olives, it's going to go up. This is the
temple, the first temple, Solomon's temple. And the glory
of the Lord was there in Solomon's temple, but the glory
of the Lord moved out, moved over to the Mount of Olives, and
ascended from there into heaven. GLORIA: Hmm. BILLYE: Now, the
children of Israel were 70 years in Babylonian captivity. The
book of Ezekiel is written during the Babylonian captivity.
So the glory has left that temple. And then after their 70
years, God sends them back to rebuild the temples and the
walls of Jerusalem. And they rebuild it, but it doesn't have
the glory. GLORIA: No glory. BILLYE: It doesn't have the--it
doesn't have the glory over that Ark of the Covenant. It doesn't
have it. And so when they rebuild it, the people are
rejoicing--after they've been in captivity, the young people are
rejoicing, "We rebuilt the temple." But the older people,
they're not rejoicing because they see that this is nothing
like the temple was. It's not nearly as glorious, and it
doesn't have the glory. GLORIA: Hmm. BILLYE: It doesn't have the
presence. So while they're rebuilding the temple, there are
two prophets that prophesy to them in the rebuilding of the
temple. Haggai is one of them, Zechariah is another one. So I
put it down here. This one I did print out, Glo. GLORIA: Oh,
good. BILLYE: Haggai 2:7, he says--he's--he's comforting
those ones who say, "This isn't the same." And Haggai 2:7 says,
"I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall
come." Who would that be? Messiah, Jesus. "And I will fill
this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts. The silver is
mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts. And the
glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former--"
And so they're sad. "--saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place
will I give peace." GLORIA: Mm. BILLYE: So they're sad. They
build the second temple, but it doesn't have the glory of the
Lord. It doesn't have the Ark of the Covenant. But yet Haggai
prophesies, "going to be glory shown in this house." Now, they
never--that second house never had that pillar of fire. It
never had that pillar of cloud. But what did it have? So in John
1:1, which I did print out for us here, John 1:1, speaking of
Jesus, says, "In the beginning was the Word--" GLORIA: Okay.
BILLYE: "--and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The
same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by
him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him
was life; and the life was the light of men." So go on down to
Verse 14, "And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us--"
That really says, "tabernacled among us." "--(and we beheld his
glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of
grace and truth." In that second temple, that was the temple that
was here when Jesus was here. And so He came, and He was the
glory that came to that latter house, when Jesus came-- GLORIA:
Mm-hmm. BILLYE: --was greater than that pillar of cloud even
and that pillar of fire. "--(we beheld His glory--" GLORIA:
Praise God. BILLYE: "--the glory as of the only begotten of
the Father,) full of grace and truth." He began His ministry at
the wedding of Cana. You remember? And He changed the
water into wine? GLORIA: Yes, mm-hmm. BILLYE: And it says
there in John--I believe it's Chapter 3--I forgot to put it
down--Verse 11. "This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of
Galilee, and manifested forth--" what? "--his glory; and his
disciples believed on him." The Bible calls Him the Lord of
glory. GLORIA: Mm. BILLYE: He came into the world. He was the
Word made flesh. And He brings with Him the manifestation of
the glory of God. He goes to the temple, and He's the glory in
that temple. He changes the water into wine and manifests
His glory. GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: He manifested His glory
in many ways, but one of the manifestations of glory and the
presence of God that is so marked in the Word of God is the
resurrection power. And remember, we're going to read
now from John. And we're going to read about Lazarus. I put
this down for us here, too. We're going to read about
Lazarus when he was raised from the dead. "And Jesus said, Take
you away the stone. And Martha, the sister of him that was dead,
saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he has
been dead four days. And Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto
thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, you should see--" what?
GLORIA: Amen. TOGETHER: "--the glory--" GLORIA: --of God.
BILLYE: "--of God." You can see the glory. You can see the glory
of God. "Then they took away the stone from the place where the
dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I
thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest
me always; but because of the people which stand by I said it,
that they may believe that you have sent me. And when he thus
had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And
he that was dead came forth." GLORIA: Glory to God. BILLYE: So
we see that He talked to Martha. "I am the resurrection." You see
in this resurrection--there's something about resurrection
that has to do with the glory of God. "He said, Said I not unto
you, that, if you believe, you would see the resurrection?"
Now, Jesus Himself was raised by the glory of God. In Romans 6:4,
it says, "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into
death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead--" by
what? GLORIA: Glory. BILLYE: "--by the glory--by the glory of
the Father, even so we should walk in the newness of life." So
we're told here that Christ was raised up by the glory of the
Father. Now, in Romans 8:11, it tells us, "If the Spirit that
raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up
Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by
his Spirit that dwells in you." So here this gives us a clue
here that the glory of God and the Spirit of God are the same.
The glory of God is the presence of God. The glory--Jesus was
raised up by the glory of God. He was raised up by the Spirit
of God. Hallelujah. And so the glory of God is manifest in
resurrection. GLORIA: Amen. BILLYE: You and I will be
resurrected. GLORIA: Yes, we will. BILLYE: And when we do,
we're going to have bodies that are called, what? Glorious
bodies. GLORIA: Glorious bodies. BILLYE: They're going to be like
unto His glorious body. GLORIA: Yeah. BILLYE: Now, Jesus on the
earth--and this is just so--find John 17 because this is the real
Lord's Prayer. John 17. Hallelujah. "And Jesus
said--These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to
heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come." Now, there are
times in the Bible and the book of John where it says, "Mine
hour is not yet come." GLORIA: Yeah. BILLYE: "Mine hour is not
yet come. Mine hour is not yet come." But now He says, "The
hour is come." GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: And then what does
He say? "Glorify thy Son, in order that thy Son may glorify
you." And when I'm studying about this, I'm thinking about
Him. He's the Body of Christ in the earth. And then I'm thinking
about us. We're the Body of Christ in the earth. And we're
going to look at how we begin with a degree of glory and how
it is increased. But we, too, are like that first body as we
come, come, come, come, come, come, up, up, up, up, up. We
have a certain glory. Jesus had glory. He was a glory in the
temple. But now He needs a further glorification. Jesus
does? Yes, He does. So if His first body did, then His last
body does, His Body of Christ in the earth. So we are going to
know--even though we know, we're going to look at it right now
that the glory of God is in us. We're going to look at that.
We're going to study that. But there is a glorification coming
to the earth that work up the Church, the Church, the Church,
the Church. There's a glorification that is coming to
the Church that we're getting degree by degree. We're going to
talk about that degrees-- GLORIA: Good. BILLYE: --how it
increases by degrees. And there is something about us, something
about the Body of Christ in the earth that we're going to be
glorified for the last part out of here. Like Jesus said,
"Glorify thou me that--in order that I may glorify you." We're
going to be like that. The Master will be everything, and
we'll say, "Glorify." The things of earth will grow strangely
dim. "Glorify us more, Lord." There's more and more and more
degrees of glory. "Glorify us that we may glorify You." And
before we leave this earth, we're going to glorify Him in a
magnifical way. Already, it's happening. I see it already
happening, but this isn't all that's coming. And so He
said--I'm going to read on here. Verse 4, "I have glorified you
on the earth: I have finished the work which you gave me to
do." We're going to glorify Him on the earth. We're going to
finish the earth which He--the work which He gave God--the
Church to do. "And now, O Father, glorify thou me with
thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the
world was." GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: And then He prays for
us. We're going to go on over to Verse 20, "Neither pray I for
these alone," you know, Peter, Paul--not Paul, but Peter and
all of them are around Him, John, "but for them which also
shall believe on me through their word." GLORIA: Mm-hmm.
BILLYE: I believe on them through their word. GLORIA: Me,
too. Yeah. BILLYE: "That they all may be one." Now, we looked
back there in the--when the glory came to the temple, unity
had something to do with it. And so when the great glory comes on
us, unity is going to have something to do with it. "That
they may be one." We're already one in the Spirit, but it's
going to come to pass also work to be seen. "That they all may
be one--so that the world may believe that you have seen me."
We're going to--they're going to see us before we go. The world
is going to see us in this glory. "And the glory which you
gave me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are
one." God--it's going to happen, Church. All those Church splits,
all that jazz-- GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: --that the enemy
tried to keep us from manifesting the glory, this rift
between brother and brother, we're going to be one before we
leave here, and the world's going to see it. GLORIA:
Hallelujah. BILLYE: There's going to be time for the
world to behold the Church walking in total unity
and walking in the glory of God and manifesting
to this creation as the sons of God. GLORIA: That will
be-- BILLYE: It's biblical. I believe it. GLORIA: Ooh.
Hallelujah. I believe we'll see it. We'll see--I believe
we'll be it. BILLYE: We'll be it. (Laughs) GLORIA: We're the
last generation. Hallelujah. BILLYE: I believe it. GLORIA:
Billye and I'll be back.
