Glory To God; Peace On Earth

Glory to God.
1. The angels are always singing praise to God.
2. N.B. that everyone who celebrated the original Christmas glorified God.
3. “Glory” is what they ascribe to God.
  1. Glory is the implication and radiation of perfections, which God has perfectly and infinitely in Himself.
  2. In the incarnation the glory of every virtue of God is displayed in an unparalleled manner.
4. We ought to join them in this song of praise to God.
The glory to God is experienced on earth in the presence of “peace.”
1. Since the fall into sin there has been no peace (Isa. 57:20,21).
2. The angels know that the Baby was to make peace a possibility and a reality.
  1. True peace begins in God: the God of peace, of undisturbed harmony, unity and agreement.
  2. Peace on earth is first the experience that God is at peace with us.
  3. The Baby born is our peace because He is God and man united inseparably, making peace with each other.
3. Peace is found only in the Babe of Bethlehem.
The angel’s add: “Good will toward men.”
1. “Good will” always refers in Scripture to God’s good pleasure.
  1. God is pleased to exercise His good pleasure to men.
  2. Divine pleasure is extended, not to each and every man individually, but to the elect humans.
2. May we then exclaim: Glory to God.