Bringing Sons unto Glory - Chambers, Oswald

Bringing Sons unto Glory
Studies in the Life of Our Lord
Oswald Chambers

Copyright 1944, Oswald Chambers Publications Association
Scripture versions quoted: KJV ( Av); RV

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren. Hebrews 2:1011 (RV)

Introduction

Source

Lectures given at the bible training college 1 and evening classes in London (191115).

Publication history

.As articles: in the bible training course (btc) monthly journal,2 april 1939march 1940.

.As a book: 1944.

When the bible training college opened in January 1911, it had great potential but no students. While Oswald chambers worked and prayed for resident students at the college, he followed an aggressive program of correspondence courses and extension classes. The latter took him throughout greater London several times a week to teach core classes of the btc curriculum. Even after the college reached its capacity of resident students, chambers continued to teach evening classes at key locations in london. In so doing, he multiplied the outreach of the btc and touched thousands of people who were able to take only one or two courses.

This book parallels and complements the study of christ presented in ocs book the psychology of redemption, published in 1930.

Contents

Foreword ……………………………………………………………………………… 218
His Humanity and Incarnation ………………………………………………. 219
The Silent Years to Thirty …………………………………………………….. 221
The Self-Consciousness of Jesus—I ………………………………………… 224
The Self-Consciousness of Jesus—II ………………………………………. 226
The Transfiguration ……………………………………………………………… 229
The Kenosis ………………………………………………………………………… 231
It Is Finished ……………………………………………………………………….. 233
The Plerosis…………………………………………………………………………. 235
Our Lord’s View of Himself and His Work—I ………………………… 238
Our Lord’s View of Himself and His Work—II……………………….. 240
Our Lord’s View of Himself and His Work—III ……………………… 242

Foreword

These studies in the life of our lord were given by Oswald chambers at the bible training college, clapham, and to groups of evening students in various parts of London. They interpret the life of our lord as presented in the fourfold gospel record. They take the same line as in the earlier book, the psychology of redemption. But in these talks there is the something else which brings to the earnest reader a yet deeper spiritual insight into the mean- ing of our lords life for us. It is required of us that we walk even as he walked. Jesus Christ is the firstborn of many brethren, the elder brother of a vast family of brothers, and it is our privilege to bear the family likeness of Jesus Christ. In him we see the son of god the exact expression of almighty god; and also the son of man the presentation of gods normal man. At times Jesus Christ lifts the veil from his own consciousness and we are permitted to gaze with awe into the depths of that sacred personality. But the end is to be that we become partakers of the divine nature, and build up ourselves on our most holy faith, and so grow up into him in all things, who is the head, even Christ. Those who have been helped by earlier books will welcome this one as carrying us a stage further in each one becoming by the grace of god a disciple of Jesus Christ.

D. L. (David Lambert)3