We'll pray with me once more as we move into the Word this morning, please.

Father, I ask for your help now again so that I would be faithful to your word.

And I pray that you would give me balance biblically and that my heart would be in tune with the worth of what we see

here and that collectively we would have teachable spirits that you would guard us from the

evil one who is marauding and seeking to distort and distract and destroy and that the Holy Spirit

would brood over this place with great anointing and freedom and empowerment and purifying

presence.

And so, Lord,

cause your word to stand forth

and accomplish that for which you gave it.

I ask this in Jesus' powerful name.

Amen.

What I said last night, in essence, was that if we're going to share in God's heart for the nations,

we have to share in God's heart for God.

And we have to experience that as good news,

and it's joy to experience the supremacy of God in the heart of God.

And thirdly, we need to experience the life of God in the heart of God. And thirdly, we need to experience the life that is a life of holiness that overflows from this joy in God and his supremacy.

So that's the outline.

We've moved into it, but we only got briefly into that second passion.

Passion for the supremacy of God. I unfolded texts from the Bible to try to persuade you

that God's heart for God runs from eternity to eternity and that the ultimate reason that he has created the universe

and has fulfilled his redemptive purposes or is fulfilling them is to display his glory

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