The glory of Jesus as the Son of God is displayed in (Matt 3:17, John 1:14, Heb 1:5, 3:6). This is the glory Jesus imparts to his followers (John 1:12, 1 John 3:1). In other words, he made us his brethren that we might be united in one great household (Rom 8:29, Eph 1:10, 2:19, 1 John 3:9,10, 4:8,16). A true comprehension of the Fatherhood of God and our brotherhood in Christ must result in unity.

Matthew 3:17  And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”

John 1:14  The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Hebrews 1:5  For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father”? Or again, “I will be his Father, and he will be my Son”?

Hebrews 3:6  But Christ is faithful as a son over God’s house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast.

John 1:12  Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—

1 John 3:1  How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Romans 8:29  For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Ephesians 1:10  to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfilment—to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.

Ephesians 2:19  Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow-citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household,

1 John 3:9-10  No-one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.  This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

1 John 4:8  Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 4:16  And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

The true glory of Christ was in following the will of the Father which culminated in the cross. So it is with the Christian. We are to walk in humility serving others. That will cause the world to look upon us as lowly and unimportant, but in God’s eyes we will gain true significance. (Luke 9:23, Gal 6:14, Acts 5:41).

Luke 9:23  Then he said to them all: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

Galatians 6:14  May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Acts 5:41  The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.

The glory that the world seeks drives men against each other, for if one is lifted up, it means another has been put down. Not so with Christians.