Jesus Is Glorified

Hi Cousin!

I thought of our Trinity conversation when I heard [my son's] memory verse for school this week:

"I am the LORD, that is My name;
I will not give My glory to another,
Nor My praise to graven images. (Isaiah 42:8)

I am reminded of passages like these:

This beginning of His signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory, and His disciples believed in Him. (John 2:11)

Jesus answered, "If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing; it is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say, 'He is our God'; (John 8:54)

But when Jesus heard this, He said, "This sickness is not to end in death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it." (John 11:4)

What strikes me is, in Isaiah, YHWH says He will not give his glory to "another." Yet Jesus tells us YHWH glorifies Him. It logically follows that the Son must then not actually be "another"... that the Son, like the Father, must also be YHWH.

On the topic of glorification, I'm reminded of Philippians 2:9-11 where it says...

For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

This Philippians passage is a allusion to Isaiah 45:

18 For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited), . . .
22 Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth;
For I am God, and there is no other.
23 "I have sworn by Myself,
The word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness
And will not turn back,
That to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance.

Bowing down to someone other than YHWH is idolatry. Every knee will bow to YHWH.

Again, it logically follows that Jesus, like the Father, must also be YHWH.

Also in this passage we see YHWH saying He is the one who saves. Yet we know, from other passages, that Jesus is the Savior.

...just more clues that came to mind.

Mike