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Can We Really Give God More or Less Glory?

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Christians sometimes talk about giving God “some” glory, “more” glory, or “most” glory, but are those really biblical categories?

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We talk often on this podcast about how God gets more glory, uh, or most glory by various

0:10.6

things.

0:11.6

Uh, it's in our slogan, of course, God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied

0:19.4

in Him.

0:20.8

Thus we can conclude that, for example, depression will not exist in heaven because we can give

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God more glory without depression.

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That's APJ 30.

0:30.3

And God gets more glory in our struggle with sin than if we were made sinless immediately.

0:35.3

That's APJ 30.

0:37.3

And God gets more glory in the harmony of diversity in male and female genders and in his abundance

0:42.8

of ethnicities, then he would get if we were all the same.

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That's APJ 169 and 927.

0:51.5

And Christ receives more glory in the atonement than he would have if he didn't take up the

0:56.2

cross.

0:57.2

That's APJ 265.

0:58.2

We talked about that.

0:59.7

And Christ gets more glory by defeating Satan at the cross than he would have by taking

1:04.4

out Satan at a distance, like as a sniper, uh, that's APJ 408.

1:10.2

And God gets more glory from our willing service than if he forced and coerced labor from

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us as a tireless slave labor force.

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That's APJ 1432 on and on it goes with this background in place.

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We get a question from Devon in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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