Glory in the Cross

Galatians 6:14

Glory in the Cross

The boast the Messiah Himself named His hour of glory

Paul gloried in the cross because the cross was the glory --- and the glory was the Father’s.

--- The Standing Stone ---

Behind “LORD” in your Bible lies a hidden name --- in the Hebrew it is Yahuah Psalm 83:18**; Yahuah is the Father** Isaiah 63:16**; Yahuah is the only God, beside Him there is no other** Isaiah 45:5**; therefore Yahuah the Father is the only true God, leaving no room for a second or third person** 1 Corinthians 8:6**.**

Some readers see the words “our Lord” in front of the Messiah’s name and hear the divine name itself. Scripture says we are to glory in Yahuah alone (Jeremiah 9:24). So the argument runs like this: Paul glories in “the Lord” Yahushua, therefore Yahushua must be Yahuah. Every bit of that case hangs on one small word --- Lord.

1 --- A Title, Not the Name

Galatians 6:14

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord [Yahushua Messiah], by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

κύριος

kurios

G2962 --- lord, master, owner, sir; a title of rank or address, not a personal name.

That one word is kurios. In plain Greek it means master, owner, or sir. It is a title of rank --- the very word a servant used for the man he served, and the word a worker used of the vineyard owner in Yahushua’s own parables. A title is not a name. The only reason “Lord” feels heavy enough to carry Yahuah is that the translators removed the real name. Where your Old Testament prints “LORD” in capital letters, the Hebrew underneath reads Yahuah.

Take the name out, and a blank “Lord” can be filled with anything the reader already believes. Put it back, and the trick falls apart. The full account of that erasure is told in Restoring the Name; it is the hinge underneath every verse like this one.

2 --- The Cross Was the Glory

Now look at what Paul actually glories in --- the cross. And here is the key the argument misses: Yahushua himself called the cross his glory. As the hour of his death drew near he said, “The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified” (John 12:23). The glorifying he spoke of was the cross.

He said it again at the table: “Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him” (John 13:31). And in his prayer the night he was betrayed: “Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee” (John 17:1). The cross was the appointed hour --- the very moment of glory.

But watch where that glory goes. “Father, glorify thy name” (John 12:28) --- and a voice from heaven answered that He had, and would again. “God is glorified in him.” The glory of the cross is the glory of Yahuah; it rises to the Father. That is the same direction all honor runs: every tongue confesses Yahushua as Lord “to the glory of [Yahuah] the Father” (Philippians 2:11).

So when Paul glories in the cross, he is glorying in the very thing the Messiah called the glory --- and that glory belongs to the Father. Far from breaking the command to glory in Yahuah alone (Jeremiah 9:24), Paul is keeping it perfectly. He boasts in the cross because the cross is where Yahuah was glorified. The verse does not crown a second Yahuah; it sends every ounce of glory home to the Father.

Conclusion

The Verdict

Paul’s one boast was the cross. The Messiah had already named it the glory; the Father had already claimed it as His own. To glory there is not to crown a second god --- it is to glory in Yahuah, exactly as Scripture commands.

Paul gloried in the cross because the cross was the glory --- and the glory was the Father’s.