Pulpit Messages
11/14/21 – We Are Sanctified to God’s Glory
11/11/21 - Beholding God’s Glory
11/7/21 - Whose Life is This? Whose Glory?
11/4/21 - Do All to the Glory of God
God ordains the evil of man to His own glory, ultimately.
To God’s Glory
While man conjures up evil as a result of trying to glorify himself, God sovereignly allows it but controls every outcome to His glory, ultimately (even when we can’t understand how).
Exo 3:14
God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
Exo 3:14 [Amplified Classic]
And God said to Moses, I Am Who I Am and What I Am, and I Will Be What I Will Be; and He said, You shall say this to the Israelites: I Am has sent me to you!
God’s Glorious Immutability
When God described Himself to Moses as “I AM WHO I AM,” He was essentially describing His own character. He is, after all, both eternal and self-existent. Therefore, His Word certainly is immutable (cp. Jn 1:14 with Heb 13:8)
Act 13:22
And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
Ro 3:23
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Ps 108:5
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth!
Pr 9:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
Ps 47:2
For the LORD, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth.
Eph 1:18
having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
