(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.
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