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Thank you so much to Pat and the team for leading us to the Lord in worship.

I love to speak as worship into worship. It's my

conception of what's going on. When preaching happens is that preaching doesn't follow worship.

Preaching is worship.

And so I'm glad to have a little part in what we've been doing already.

And just another thank you to all the help here at Saddleback. Thank you so much to Rick and the whole team for letting

us be a part of this amazing campus. Let me summarize where we've been in the last two steps we have to go. I said there were five things I wanted to say. Number one,

God exists to be God. That is, he exists to uphold and display the infinite value of his glory.

And I might comment here that when I think about the term and the reality of holiness as it relates to glory, the way I think

is this.

And I get this from Isaiah 6, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty.

The whole earth is full of his.

Why did he shift? Why didn't he say holy, holy, holy, the whole

earth is full of his holiness. The reason I think is glory is holiness gone public. In other words,

holiness is his intrinsic worth and perfection and beauty in himself.

When it begins to radiate, the Bible calls it glory. So when God goes public in creation and redemption it talks

mainly about glory streaming out. You see his glory. You don't see his holiness except as it

streams in glory. So when I say God exists to be God, God is passionate about upholding and displaying the worth of his,

I could say holiness, the worth of its holiness, but I encounter it.

It says the heavens are telling the glory of God.

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