Dale Partridge - December 04, 2023


Who Are the Image and Glory of God？ - Dale Partridge


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On this episode of Real Christianity, we re going to be talking about man as the glory of God. What does that really mean? All that and more, coming up right now on Real Christianity. Resources Mentioned: 1 Corinthians 11:7-9 A Cover for Glory

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00:00:00.000 On this episode of Real Christianity, we're going to be talking about man as the glory of God. What
00:00:05.400 does that really mean? All that and more coming up right now. Welcome to this episode of Real
00:00:27.660 Christianity. My name is Dale Partridge. We are excited to have you back. Honestly, we have been
00:00:33.000 a little bit absent, have missed a couple of weeks. We're still transitioning up to our new
00:00:38.220 location up in Prescott, Arizona, and our office is actually headquartered down the mountain. So
00:00:45.140 it's been a bit for us to get down to the studio. I also don't have, if you're watching the video,
00:00:49.580 I don't have the same mic that I'm usually using, and we're going to be using a different mic today,
00:00:53.360 and that's okay. But this episode, I think, is going to be a really important episode. We're
00:00:56.700 talking about man as the glory of God. What does that really mean? In fact, what is glory and how
00:01:04.000 do we define glory according to scripture? And so if you're a regular listener, I want you to know
00:01:10.820 that we appreciate you spending time and your commitment to listening to this podcast. One
00:01:16.660 thing, we just finished our brand new book, Simple Theology, A Gospel Catechism for Kids.
00:01:21.900 it's now available. In fact, sitting from me, maybe, I don't know, Trevor, why don't you go
00:01:27.020 grab one of these books and I'll actually show it to people that are watching the video here.
00:01:30.960 We got four pallets of these books, which is a beautiful, beautiful book. And you can see this
00:01:37.600 here in the video, Simple Theology, A Gospel Catechism for Kids. It is, if you're listening
00:01:43.060 to this, I'll give you a description. It's got this beautiful gold foiling cover on this burgundy
00:01:46.720 a hard case book with cream paper. It's got a satin ribbon marker, a smithstone binding.
00:01:53.160 And what it is, it's a hundred questions to teach your kids the gospel. A hundred questions
00:01:58.240 that'll walk your kids through what it means to believe in Christ. And you can talk through
00:02:05.400 church and anthropology and systematics and all these things in a hundred steps,
00:02:11.720 100 questions. It also is set up so that you can have answers for little kids,
00:02:17.640 medium kids, and older kids. I don't know what we call medium kids, right? But you know what I'm
00:02:21.740 saying. So you can pick up a copy of that, Simple Theology, at our store at shop.relearn.org,
00:02:29.540 or I think the URL is relearn.org forward slash simple, and that'll take you there. Great,
00:02:36.320 great present for Christmas if you're watching it in the pre-Christmas months, but that would
00:02:41.880 be a great gift to have to your family or to some other family. So again, let's jump into
00:02:47.040 this episode of Real Christianity, Man as the Glory of God. I'm going to read 1 Corinthians
00:02:57.480 11, 7 through 9. It says, for a man ought not to cover his head since he is the image and glory
00:03:06.000 of God, but woman is the glory of man. For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.
00:03:13.920 Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man." Okay, this might be one of the more
00:03:20.000 controversial passages of scripture. And yes, I did write an entire book on this passage of
00:03:24.060 scripture, a book called A Cover for Glory, speaking about head coverings. I'm not going
00:03:29.060 to be talking about head coverings in this episode. So we're going to just be going on
00:03:32.800 the conversation more with the men here. But a couple of things is that this is a controversial
00:03:37.200 passage of scripture because it claims that men are the image and glory of God,
00:03:44.760 but woman is the glory of man. Really what this is saying is that a woman is not the glory of God.
00:03:53.920 She's the glory of man. And it doesn't mean that she's not made in the image of God. She certainly
00:03:59.060 is made in the image of God. We know that from Genesis, but we are different and truly we are
00:04:06.640 different in the sense that we have different glories and we will understand what that means
00:04:11.240 here in a second. Glory being defined really is the rightful radiant substance of a particular
00:04:22.580 object. That's what it means to be glorious or what glory is. And I'm going to explain just to
00:04:29.780 give you a better grasp of what I mean by that. It's the correct and true expression of something.
00:04:36.640 That is what makes it glorious. To be glorious is the correct and rightful expression of a
00:04:43.240 particular object. And so everything has a corresponding glory, but all glories are
00:04:51.120 essentially sub-glories of God because we don't define what is glorious. God is the one that
00:04:57.280 defines what is glorious. So let me give you an example. This table, if you're watching this on
00:05:01.580 video, is glorious because it upholds my computer and this microphone. It's fulfilling its God-designed
00:05:10.260 purpose or its man-designed purpose in this particular instance. But if we're talking about
00:05:14.980 a glorious man. It's that a man is walking out what he's been designed to do. And to be a
00:05:25.120 glorious woman is to be a woman that is doing and carrying out what she is designed to do. That's
00:05:32.900 what makes her glorious. And so you can have a glorious son and a glorious daughter, and you can
00:05:37.940 have a glorious worker and you can have a glorious employee. You can have a glorious
00:05:45.320 boxer, a glorious pie, a glorious living room. Whatever it might be, these glories are,
00:05:57.540 to be glorious, we essentially need to understand how God intended those things to be.
00:06:04.200 And so when we give glory to things that are not glorious or are operating under different
00:06:10.200 definitions of glory, we pervert God's glory.
00:06:14.660 We pervert the gloriness of a particular object.
00:06:17.680 And so we want to understand God's design for particular things, for men, for women,
00:06:25.120 for children, for sons, for daughters, for grandparents, for employees, for church, for
00:06:32.000 worship, for pastors.
00:06:33.420 Because when we have a clear understanding of what those things are, according to God's word,
00:06:38.160 we can determine if they are glorious or they are not glorious. And so to understand
00:06:47.320 God's glory, like his specific glory, I would say that the most purest form of God's glory is his
00:06:57.340 holiness, right? It's what makes him totally separate from us. His glory is something that
00:07:03.460 we recognize in his perfectness. And we try to explain his glory. First Chronicles 29, 13 says,
00:07:11.380 and now we thank you, our God and praise your glorious name. So the author is attempting to
00:07:18.520 assign a human-made attribute to capture the weight, the glory, or holiness, or magnificence
00:07:27.520 of God's name. And again, to the degree we grasp glory is the degree we grasp God. Because
00:07:36.420 if you don't grasp God or truth or the scriptures, we won't grasp what is glorious. In fact, we
00:07:44.540 will call things that are not glorious, glorious, and we will miss things that are glorious and
00:07:50.100 calling them something else. And so glory needs to be carried. It's a substance that can be
00:07:58.540 beheld by the person observing it. C.S. Lewis's book, The Weight of Glory, he says,
00:08:04.640 quote, the load or weight or burden of glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy
00:08:12.960 that only humility can carry it
00:08:15.440 and the backs of the proud will be broken, end quote.
00:08:19.300 He might be talking about the glory of the gospel here,
00:08:22.860 the load or weight or burden of glory,
00:08:26.760 of what it is, like what is the gospel?
00:08:30.740 What is a glorious gospel?
00:08:32.180 It's a glorious gospel is one that saves,
00:08:34.860 it accomplishes what it was designed to do.
00:08:38.640 And this load is so heavy when you understand the gospel
00:08:41.700 that Lewis says that the only way to carry it is humility
00:08:45.840 and it'll break the backs of the proud.
00:08:49.340 And so to be glorious is essentially to do
00:08:52.240 what you were designed to do.
00:08:54.240 And glory radiates from the one
00:08:57.580 that walks out their divinely appointed duty,
00:09:02.940 being, and role.
00:09:05.160 So it's not just being, right?
00:09:08.180 I'm being a man, just being here, right?
00:09:10.600 And that's glorious in some degree. Now, so that's why a perversion of the transgender movement is not glorious. It's perversion of glory. But I also, not just as a man, I'm also a husband and I'm also a father and I'm also a pastor. 1.00
00:09:25.820 And so there are particular glories that can be had.
00:09:30.460 Glory is out there to be taken, to be grasped, to be a glorious individual in whatever particular role you may be playing.
00:09:42.640 Jesus does this perfectly.
00:09:43.980 Hebrews 1.3 says, quote,
00:09:46.180 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.
00:09:55.280 And so Jesus is the radiant expression, the radiant substance of God's glory because he is perfectly carrying out what he was designed to do as the God-man on earth. He's also perfectly God. And so he is perfectly glorious as a savior. He's a glorious savior. He's a glorious sacrifice.
00:10:14.720 And so a glorious man or woman is one who embodies the biblical manhood and womanhood in submission to their particular roles.
00:10:28.740 So men are glorious because, I'll say this, let me explain this, men are the glory of God because they were created by God and from God.
00:10:41.820 women were created from man out of man's side and by God. So they're holding the glory of man.
00:10:54.980 They reflect the one that they represent and men reflect the one that they came from and represent.
00:11:03.400 And so men come from the dust, but made from God. And we have the glory of God upon men
00:11:13.080 because we're reflecting the one whom we came. And then a woman is glorious in the sense that
00:11:21.240 she is the glory of mankind, of humanity, because she came from Adam. And so she's reflecting the
00:11:29.580 glory of man. In fact, this is the whole purpose of my book, A Cover for Glory, is that the reason
00:11:34.980 that a woman would cover her hair or cover her head, glory radiates and shines through the head. 0.53
00:11:42.400 This is all over scripture and through Paul's teachings of 1 Corinthians. And when a woman 0.99
00:11:49.260 is worshiping, she is radiating the glory of mankind in the presence of God. And we are not
00:11:59.620 to glory as men in the presence of God. And so women are to cover that glory and men are to
00:12:10.360 uncover their heads so that they can, because they radiate the glory of God, they will essentially
00:12:18.240 be representing a glorious act being uncovered. And a woman should cover the glory of mankind 0.99
00:12:26.100 so that she's not essentially boasting her glory in the presence of God's glory. 0.99
00:12:31.380 So a lot there. You can pick up a copy, relearn.org forward slash glory,
00:12:36.340 if you want to learn more about that reality there. And so as we know, again, Adam and Eve,
00:12:43.480 have different glories. They're both made in the image of God, but they're imaging different
00:12:51.500 aspects of God. So Adam's glory is imaged in the authority given to him through creation,
00:12:59.380 order, and dominion. So Adam is to be a ruler like God. And so when he rules according to God's
00:13:08.700 will, he's glorious because he is like God in the sense that he is ruling. He's a ruler like God.
00:13:17.380 Eve's glory is imaged in submitting and helping Adam. That's what she was designed to do. Charles 0.89
00:13:22.800 Hodge put it this way. He says, quote, woman is not designed to reflect the glory of God as a ruler,
00:13:29.080 end quote. So Eve's purpose was never to rule or to be like a side-by-side ruler 0.98
00:13:38.540 with Adam, but to help Adam rule. And through the covenant nature of their marriage and the work,
00:13:46.080 yes, there is a sense where they are ruling as one. But in terms of roles and duties and being,
00:13:54.480 she is to ornament her husband, who is the ruler and the primary ruler in this narrative. And this
00:14:02.080 is something that's very important. So we talk about, actually, I'll give you an explanation
00:14:08.920 here. This is a, I don't know who originally said it, but I thought it was helpful.
00:14:13.400 He said, the woman is like the glory of the moon. While she is made by the same creator who made
00:14:19.480 the sun, her purpose is not to be the sun, but to reflect the sun. The late theologian GW Knight
00:14:27.240 It says, quote, the man reflects the one who directly created him, and thus also the woman
00:14:32.760 will inevitably reflect the one whom she was created, namely man.
00:14:36.960 I kind of already said that, but there's another version of that.
00:14:39.940 Another way to understand glory is to understand it as an expression of pride and joy.
00:14:46.020 So this is, again, it's essentially the recognition.
00:14:49.760 I'm so proud because I see that gloriousness that's occurring before my eyes.
00:14:56.280 you're operating according to your design. And so it's the substance of a thing that makes
00:15:00.940 us proud or pleasant or according to God's will, righteous, upright. 1 Corinthians 11, 15
00:15:09.240 sees that a woman's hair is a glory to her. That is that it is the particular substance on her body
00:15:17.100 that shows that she is a woman.
00:15:22.700 It's a glory to her. 0.99
00:15:23.780 It makes her take a woman's long hair away. 1.00
00:15:27.700 And it is a shame to a woman.
00:15:30.460 Now, I'm not saying that there's all these circumstances 1.00
00:15:33.200 that are unique and sicknesses and all those things, 1.00
00:15:35.540 but I'm talking about generally these women 1.00
00:15:37.880 that are maybe lesbians that want to cut their hair off 1.00
00:15:40.880 or look like boys or whatever it may be. 1.00
00:15:43.880 A woman's hair is glorious to her 0.98
00:15:46.020 because it's actually the thing that helps identify her gloriousness as a female.
00:15:53.700 And we look in Proverbs 20, 29, it says,
00:15:57.600 the glory of young men is their strength, end quote.
00:16:01.340 And so when you see a young man,
00:16:03.960 their strength is the recognizable substance of what is glorious,
00:16:09.340 is they're strong.
00:16:11.140 And their strength is the representative reality of their rightful design,
00:16:15.720 that they are men and strong. It's what they are to be. And so these are just basic fundamentals
00:16:22.480 around what is glory and why it's important. And so you want to teach your children and teach
00:16:30.120 yourself what is a glorious man and what is a glorious woman and what is a glorious church
00:16:37.320 member? And what is a glorious coach? And what is a glorious prayer life? And what is a glorious
00:16:48.360 parenting regimen? What's a glorious schedule? You can see how deep this goes in the sense that
00:16:57.160 we are truly lost to define glory
00:17:03.400 if we don't know the truth about particular realities.
00:17:08.320 And so the more you know scripture,
00:17:10.480 the more you know the gospel,
00:17:11.720 the more you know God's will for particular realities
00:17:15.280 all around creation,
00:17:17.760 the more you have an opportunity to be glorious for God.
00:17:22.040 And so glory is something
00:17:23.040 that should be talked about in your home.
00:17:24.700 It's something that I believe is very helpful for families and for children. These are languages
00:17:30.840 that are words and a glossary of terms that we should be implementing into our home. They should
00:17:37.220 be familiar topics. These are Bible words. These are good words. We shouldn't shy away from words
00:17:43.880 like propitiation and majesty and glory and honor and atonement and sacrifice. I mean,
00:17:52.040 these are biblical words. And so we want to understand what those words mean. And so my
00:17:56.280 encouragement to you guys, as we kind of close out this episode here is that you would essentially
00:18:00.980 fight to understand glory and teach your family what it means to be a glorious family so that
00:18:08.660 you guys can be recognized that the rightful radiant substance of your life or your lives
00:18:14.740 would be seen and that others would be curious. We know it's, what is it? First Peter
00:18:20.620 you know, always be ready to give a defense for the hope that is in you and do so with
00:18:28.480 meekness and fear. And this means that there's a recognizable reality that evangelistic isn't,
00:18:37.660 sometimes it's actually recognized. People come up to you with a curiosity. Hey,
00:18:42.240 tell me about why you live this way. They're recognizing glory. They're recognizing peace.
00:18:48.760 they're recognizing hope. You need to be ready. And so glory is what actually radiates to the
00:18:55.800 world. And it's something that we should be aiming for. So hopefully this was a helpful,
00:19:00.860 quick episode on glory. And we're going to continue that conversation between glory and
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