A week number 235 begins on the podcast today, a lot of weeks, and the theme of all those

weeks of episodes and the theme of everything that we do at DesiringGod.org is to proclaim

the truth.

That God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

And at least to a lot of questions to work through, like this one from a podcast listener

named Amber.

Hello, Pastor John, you often talk about the reason for God doing things being ultimately

to bring Himself more glory or to magnify His own glory.

But a question that has really been bothering me and is on my heart is this, would God still

have died for me, even if it didn't, hypothetically speaking, bring Him any glory?

Let me give a couple reasons why if Amber thinks deeply about this question, I don't

think she will want to ask it.

I don't think she would even want to contemplate this possibility if she could.

So here's the reasons I say that number, there's two, number one.

I doubt that anything good can come from trying to hypothesize about possibilities in the

New Testament that do not exist and cannot exist.

This is especially true of hypotheses that require God to be viewed in a way that doesn't

exist, a way that the New Testament excludes.

It would be like breaking the first commandment to have no other gods before you.

We would be trying to imagine a world in which we have created an idol.

That is, a God who's not the true God.

My first reason for saying a doubt that Amber wants to pursue this question is that no

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