I want to begin with reflections upon the title and this term the excellency of God.

I was reflecting on this word excellency.

This is by way of introduction to my particular topic about God being too

excellent to need servants. So I want you to reflect with me for a moment on the term, the excellency of God, and I want to do it by asking this particular

question, why do we in conferences like this or in certain churches or sermons.

Put forward themes like this instead of just dealing with the simple gospel.

Christ died for my sins according to the scriptures.

He was buried. He rose again, triumphant over death and hell and Satan.

Why don't you just deal with the simple glorious facts of the gospel instead of these big, broad overarching things like the

excellency of God.

What's the reason for that?

Now there is a reason.

It's very relevant to understanding the gospel and I would invite you to open your Bible by way of introduction to 2 Corinthians chapter 4.

I confess that I cannot distinguish in my mind very clearly between the term the excellency of God and the glory of God and so I am taking them biblically as almost interchangeable.

Read with me. 2 Corinthians 4, versus 3 to 6. Even if our gospel is veiled,

gospel, we're talking gospel here now. Even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to

those who are perishing. In whose case the God of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see.

Now these next words are some of the most important words in my estimation in all the Bible in understanding the nature of

conversion and the nature of the gospel. And they recur again in verse six but let's

read them carefully and attend to every phrase that they

might not see the gospel now define it for us Paul tell us what you mean, of the glory of Christ. That's the gospel. The gospel

is the gospel, the Excellency of Christ is the Gospel, or at least is an essential component of the gospel. You see that. I'm not adding any

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