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1 Christ Presbyterian Church 17Th Sunday After Pentecost Christ Presbyterian Church 17th Sunday after Pentecost September 15, 2013 1 Timothy 1:12-17 “Glory that Shines in Sinners” Rev. Matthew Reeves The sermon this morning is the first series called “God’s Style of Glory.” For the next number of weeks, the question we will as isn’t whether God has glory, but what is God’s glory like? Our guide into God’s glory these weeks will be the First and Second Letters to Timothy. Let us continue to receive the light of God’s Word in 1 Timothy chapter 1, verses 12-17. +++ Last month our family received a visit from a good friend. He’d never been to Cleveland and was only to be with us for part of a day, so we wanted to show him some of the area’s most splendid parts. We settled on the art museum. Art museums showcase glory and how many-splendored glory is. We took in the paint flung canvases of Jackson Pollack and the meticulous work of Seurat; the dark tones of Rembrandt and soft light of Monet; Rodin’s iconographic The Thinker and Incan pot whose sculptors we don’t know. Art tells us something about glory: what one person honors, another discounts. Like beauty, glory is in the eye of the beholder. In my eye, had we shown our friend a Geauga County forest, he would have seen glory no less. Paul desired that God receive glory. You might think this could go without saying sin the consensus of Scripture is that truly all glory, laud, and honor belong to God. We don’t need to give God glory for God to have it. But Paul is emphatic: “Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever.” And he add an “Amen,” which says “so be it,” which lets us know how much he means it. Paul wrote to Timothy to train him in what God loves, so he could lead a church that keeps its train of thought on God. He wanted Timothy’s church in Ephesus to know God and to shine with what honors God. But to do this, the church would need to learn God’s style of glory. Pastor and author Frederick Buechner has said, Glory is to God what style is to an artist. A painting by Vermeer, a sonnet by Donne, a Mozart aria––each is so rich with the style of the one who made it that to the connoisseur it couldn’t have been made by anybody else, and the effect is staggering. They style of an artist brings you as close to the sound of his voice and the light in his eye as it is possible to get this side of actually shaking hands with him. The Gospel of John says something of the same in chapter 1: “No one has ever seen God, but we have seen his glory.” The church is a people who become connoisseurs of the glory of 1 God. The gift of appreciating God’s way of working is that it almost amounts to shaking hands with the Divine Artist himself. Here is today’s main point about God’s style of glory. First Timothy tells us that God’s style of work is to take sinners as the medium for displaying his glory. For any who would honor God and enjoy his work in their lives, at some point, they must accept that this happens in the midst of our wrongheaded ways. Nobody sets out to be a sinner, just as gets who gets in a car sets out to get lost. There is more than one way to describe the reality of sin. Rowan Williams offers a helpful view: Sin, he says, is when you live “in contradiction to the purpose and direction of the universe as its maker intends it.” In the first place, “it isn’t high-drama Satanic defiance [or] even exciting naughtiness. It’s just the condition of being seriously wrong about reality and living against the grain. The committed sinner is the equivalent of the person who is convinced that you can make trains run on black coffee and is determined to go on trying, however much the evidence stacks up in favor of the more usual options.” Paul called himself the most committed sinner of them all, but it was precisely out of his rebellion that God sculpted glory of his life. In chapter 1, verse 12, we learn that Paul was quite a blockhead when God found him. Paul shows that the art of God’s glory involves awfully flawed materials. Do you remember Paul’s life when the risen Lord found him? Paul remembers it to Timothy as marred with arrogance and pocked with invective against followers of the Lord. Paul was on a witch hunt for believers in Jesus when the glory of Christ knocked him down on the Damascus road and bathed him in God’s light. This is typical of God’s style, Paul says. You might think that God would only work where there is rightness and steadiness of faith, but look at me, says Paul. God chose to work in the midst of my ignorance and unbelief. That’s why you can bank on this word, he tells Timothy. It is worthy of full acceptance Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. When God chose to come among us in Jesus, it was a decision to do masterful work with materials that others might discard. Paul offers up his own life as proof that God is not picky about the kind of canvas he will paint on. He talks as though, in choosing him as an apostle, God took the least desirable materials available to make the best work there could be. “I was shown mercy,” he said, “so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience” for others who would believe. God looks at the materials of our lives and sees a glorious work in the making. In the style of God’s hand your life is suitable stuff for the showcase of God’s glory. I’m not sure this is a message we’re often told. Perhaps we are more accustomed to hearing we are rejected materials. We hear our grades and test scores were not high enough and so we were denied admission. Our credit score was too low and so we weren’t approved for the loan. Our resume was deficient and so we didn’t get the job. Others evaluate the stuff of our lives and we are told not good enough. We ourselves can be the harshest critics of what can come from our life. 2 But since God prefers imperfection as the starting place for his work, God looks over us and says Yes. Yes, I can accept you and one in whom I’d make beauty. Yes, your life matters and can be made to matter more to what is most honorable in the world. We hear this and make no mistake. God is not blind to our ignorance and unbelief, our thoughts, words and deeds that harm others and ourselves and bring little honor to God. It’s just that in the artistry of salvation, God takes all of our unbelief and rebellion, and patiently fashions them into faith and hope and love and obedience. That’s is God’s style of glory. You might have heard the news last week, that the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam discovered one of Dutch master’s lost works. For six decades a painting sat in the attic of a Norwegian industrialist who believed it to be a fake. It turns out the painting is an authentic Vincent Van Gogh. A letter from the artist to his brother describes what’s on the canvas. “At sunset,” wrote the artist, “I was on a stony heath where very small, twisted oaks grow, in the background a ruin on the hill and the wheat fields in the valley. It was romantic,” wrote Van Gogh. “The sun was pouring its very yellow rays over the bushes and the ground, absolutely a shower of gold.” One, when he wrote to the Corinthians, Paul told them that that God has shone into our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. The hearts and life in which Jesus shines often don’t look or feel like glory. But when God looks at your life, he sees it in the light that shines off the face of Jesus. “The grace of God was poured out on me abundantly,” Paul wrote to Timothy. “The grace of God along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.” God pours the life of Jesus into sinners. Right now, Jesus is pouring the rays of his grace upon you. Jesus is within your life and he sees all that is truly there. The stony, the twisted parts, and even the ruins. He casts the light of his gaze on all this, speaking God’s glorious Yes. It is not a Yes to our sin, but to us. A Yes that says, I can make beauty that starts with whatever the landscape of your life right now; Yes, I have patience dwell to alongside any ignorance or unbelief. Yes, I can shine bright enough in your darkness that you will have eternal life. This is the style of God’s glory in Jesus Christ.
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