{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Houston's First Baptist Church","title":"How To Glorify God, Pt.3","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1578,"description":"In this third installment of a four‑part series, the speaker reviews the previous lessons on God’s intrinsic glory and then introduces new ways believers can glorify Him. He emphasizes that God’s glory is part of His nature—unchangeable like sunshine—and that humans can only reflect or enhance it, never add to it. The first two methods discussed are aiming every action, even the mundane, toward God’s glory (citing 1 Corinthians 10:31) and recognizing that true glory comes when we suffer with Christ and bear holy anger against injustice, as illustrated by biblical examples such as Moses, Peter, and the zeal of the temple cleansers.\n\nThe sermon then moves to four practical steps for glorifying God: (1) confessing faith in Jesus, whose obedient death leads to divine exaltation (Philippians 2:9‑11); (2) being content when others outshine us in gifts or recognition, thereby directing all acclaim to God; (3) understanding that the message, not the messenger, is what God blesses, illustrated by Paul’s prison testimony and a story of a preacher who discovered his lack of salvation; and (4) confessing sin, which absolves God of guilt and upholds His righteousness, as shown in the accounts of the thief on the cross, Achan’s trespass, and the prodigal son. The speaker concludes by outlining that these are the first four of a larger list of ways believers can keep God’s glory at the center of every aspect of life.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/o5yzRQYlXr9ParDz0W15WXJmDEyj_QNDo8tzYNqSRoc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wN2Ew/Yjg4MTI1YTdmNDVi/Mjc2NWZiNDkwYTBi/OTU4MS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}