Glory is the outworking of the plan

"In John 1, when it says 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,' Jesus Christ has come as the one who will accomplish the ultimate intention of God in His creation and He's going to come as Emmanuel, God with us, dwelling among men as man, for the purpose of accomplishing the purpose, the plan of the Father.

"That's why it says what it does in verse 14: [14] And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

"When you listen to that verse it sounds different than when you read it and I'm conscious of that every time I quote that verse," says Jordan.

"There's really two issues about the dwelling. One, He dwelt among us full of grace and truth. That's an issue about the moral glory; the essence of the character of who He was.

"But there's another issue about His glory. 'We beheld His glory.' There was a manifestation of His glory and it was the glory as of the only begotten of the Father.

"Glory is the outworking of the plan and the purpose the Father had, that He would dwell and come and share His life.

"Jesus said about eternal life in John 17: [3] And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

"And that's not just to go up and say, 'Hi, Lord, how are you?' It's to know Him; it's to enter into an understanding of who He is and what He's planning on doing.

"One of the ways you get to know people is not just six-foot-two and eyes of blue kind of stuff. It's, 'Get to know them. What's on their mind, how do they think, what are their plans, purposes, goals?'

"What do they like? How do they react to things? It's where you begin to understand who they are and enter into more than just the external view, but you enter into their heart. That's what godliness is in the Bible.

"God-likeness is to be able to enter into an understanding of what God's doing so that you can begin to labor with Him, work with Him in it. But it gets to the place where you begin to not just know what He's doing and labor with Him, but you begin to be excited about what He's doing.

"You come to delight, you come to rejoice. Jesus said, 'The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.'

"That's not a bad thing; it's a good thing. I'm consumed with what excites God and His plan. The old A-Team TV show used to say, 'I love it when a plan comes together.' "