The word glory means - you see the Bible uses words and we say oh, crowned with glory and honour and ooh, that's nice, that's really good. What does it mean? See, so when God designed man, man was made slightly lower than the realm of God. What is man, that You continually think about him, or the son of man, that You come to visit him and meet with him to relate with him. You have made him a little lower than elohim, God Himself. God has created us a little lower than Himself, but we're of the same stock. We're children of the living God by faith in Christ. He says you've crowned him with glory - to be crowned means literally to be positioned for a role of ruling - and what did God do to man to position him for this realm of ruling or having dominion, whatever all that might mean? He crowned him with glory. Well what on earth is that? What would that look like?
Well the word glory has a number of meanings, but it referred to the tangible presence of God, the tangible presence of God. I think in Psalm 104 it says: God is clothed with light, so when in the Old Testament God made Himself visible, many times what they saw was, they saw what they call a shekinah glory, so if you went into the holiest place of the tabernacle, the house where God physically manifested Himself, it was a totally dark room, no natural light - but the brilliance of God's presence lit it up. It just lit the place up! You just about needed sunglasses to go in there, and the presence of God was so powerful, if you didn't do it right, you would fall down dead. So He was clothed, God was clothed in light. The Bible says He is clothed in light and immortality, so when Adam and Eve first were born, they didn't look just like us. They actually had a clothing of God upon them. There was a manifestation of light, of glory - in Exodus, Chapter 33, Moses says: show me Your glory, and God says: I'll let all my goodness come before you. So they were clothed with the manifestation of what God is like. Their bodies glistened with light. They were glorious bodies, bodies that would not die, would not get sick, would heal themselves, and the goodness of God radiated out of their life, so that anyone seeing Adam and Eve were seeing the image of God, exactly as God made them to be in the earth. Come on, think about this. You've clothed them with glory, so they were covered with a life of God. Even now, when you get in the presence of God, and the presence of God begins to fill you, there is a joy and a life and a brightness and a light on your countenance.
You get to have a look in India and some of these places where people have a dark skin and demons have got a hold of them; they look dark and they look black and when they get saved and the light, the glorious light of the gospel of Jesus Christ comes into their heart, their faces shine. You look different when God is in your life. Your countenance looks different when He's coming forth. There is a difference, there's something inside flowing out, come on, so they were crowned with glory and honour. That word honour means literally, they were given - they looked majestic. They looked amazing. They looked extraordinary, so if you came into the world in the days when Adam and Eve were here, the highlight of everything that you saw, no matter how beautiful it was - [inhales sharply] Ooh, what is that! Ooh, it's my son and daughter, carrying my glory and majesty, and reflecting me into the world I've made. You see, that's why when the Bible says: all have sinned, most of us hear that bit.
What we miss is the next bit - have fallen short of the glory of God. That word falling short means we've become inferior, or we've come and slipped well below what God created us to be like, and to function like. Amazing isn't it aye? That's how God designed us. Now, now you'll understand why it says: the man and his wife were naked, and they were not ashamed. So how did God design us? Unashamed. What was the key to being unashamed? To have no self-consciousness whatsoever, to be conscious and filled with the presence, glory and wonder of what God is like. Now that is how He started. Do you think He's going to finish with something different than that, see? You see what happens is, mentally what you'll be doing is this. Mentally we look at what is, and that's our measuring stick, and you've always got to shift that measuring stick and say: what did God intend? That's my possibilities. That's my future, if I can believe for it.