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Isaiah chapter 48 verses 9 through 11.

God says for my namesake I defer my anger for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you

that I may not cut you off. Behold I have refined you but not as silver I have tried you in the furnace of affliction

for my own sake for my own sake I do it for how should my name be profaned?

My glory I will not give to another.

So there's three verses and four times

God repeats why he shows mercy to his people. He's talking about how he's

forgiving his people, how he will redeem his people, he will spare them the wrath they deserve in their sin and four times he says

for my own sake I defer my anger it's the first one second one for the sake of my

praise I restrained it for you

then he repeats himself in verse 11 he says for my own sake for my own sake two more times

for my own sake I do this how should my name be profane this is or how should my name be profane? This is one of the clearest

pictures we have in God's word or something we see all over God's word but it's so

crystallized here how God is driven with zeal for his own glory.

That even when God shows grace, it ultimately is intended to bring him glory.

Now we think about that and I think we probably wrestle with it a bit in our minds like okay so

everything God does is for his own glory and God does everything he does to exalt himself and we kind of rubs us wrong because we think

well that would not be good for any one of us like what if I told you I do everything I do for my own glory?

You'd be like, man, you got problems, that's horrible, to live your life all for your own sake.

Say that's selfish.

So does this make God selfish?

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