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About Rev. Dr. David Bissett

I pastor a church in upstate NY. I'm happily married and the father of seven kids. It's fun, really! Leave me some feedback...

Lifted up & Glorified

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cross-1561017-1279x1708The cross on which Jesus Christ was lifted-up and crucified, also is the basis for His exaltation in glory. The Gospel of John points to the cross as the time Jesus would be lifted up — and that at that hour, at the cross, Jesus would also be glorified.

  • John 3:14-15, And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
  • John 8:28, So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.
  • John 12:23, And Jesus answered them, The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
  • John 13:31, When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him….

Dr Tom Schreiner rightly concludes:  “The positive terms used for Jesus’ death indicate that it is the pathway to his exaltation and glorification. Jesus is exalted not despite the cross but precisely because of it.” [New Testament Theology, Magnifying God in Christ; Baker 2008; 227]

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A good look at the cross…

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  On this Good Friday you should be thinking about the cross. Nothing can teach you as much about Christianity as the cross. A serious view of the cross will impact your soul. Back in the 1800’s John Brown of Scotland wrote the following rich summary of what there is to see at the cross — and how it will affect you.

“Nothing is so well fitted to put the fear of God, which will preserve men from offending him, into the heart, as an enlightened view of the cross of Christ. There shines spotless holiness, inflexible justice, incomprehensible wisdom, omnipotent power, holy love. None of these excellencies darken or eclipse the other, but every one of them rather gives a luster to the rest. They mingle their beams, and shine with united external splendor: the just Judge, the merciful Father, the wise Governor. Nowhere does justice appear so awful, mercy so amiable, or wisdom so profound.”