08/22/20 THE GLORY OF GOD #2 — Years ago the light-heavyweight boxing champion of the world, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, had taken a several month break and gained some weight. Overconfident and undefeated, he decided to try his hand at boxing as a heavyweight.

He chose a relative unknown as his first opponent, a young heavyweight named Renaldo Snipes. Unfortunately for Eddie, Snipes was several inches taller, his reach was many inches longer and he outweighed Eddie by more than 30 pounds. The result was absolutely predictable. I watched on live TV as Snipes, who soon earned the nickname “Mr. Snipes,” beat Muhammad mercilessly, finally mercifully knocking him out in an early round. The crowd was awestruck and stunned to see “the champ” out cold on the mat!

Eddie Mustafa Muhammad may have been the VERY BEST light-heavyweight boxer in the world at that time. But he could only PRETEND to be a true heavyweight. He was literally OUT-CLASSED by Renaldo. He was NO MATCH for a TRUE HEAVYWEIGHT.

As I reminded everyone yesterday, in BOTH ancient Hebrew and Greek, the word for “glory” carries the idea of HEAVY! God our Father is NOT a lightweight, middleweight or even a heavyweight. Almighty God is the UNDEFEATED SUPER HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF HIS UNIVERSE! Speaking of the shepherds minding their sheep on the night when Jesus was born, Luke 2:9 (CSB) says, “Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the GLORY of the LORD shone around them, and they were TERRIFIED.” Of course they were!