Good day, everyone, and welcome to this sermon clip Wednesday on the podcast.

As most of you know, for a few weeks, we've been looking at a two-part sermon series,

Pastor John delivered in the spring of 2010, historically, those serms are interesting

because they come in the days leading up to his eight-month leave of absence, way from

the pulpit to work some things out in his own heart and in his own family.

We talked about that leave itself and the lessons he took from it on the podcast, particularly

back in three episodes, EPJ is 138 to 20 and 1227. It was a really defining eight-month season

for Pastor John, but leading up to his leave, we get these two interesting sermons.

In them, Pastor John explained what makes himself tick. Why does he do ministry the way that he

does it? You might remember that. We heard that answer in APJ 1769, and then we looked at a

related theme that God makes much of us. You really does make much of us, and the question is

why? Why does God make so much of us? That was APJ 1772, and then we looked at how God makes

much of us. In six or seven profound ways, God makes much of his children. Pastor John walked

us through those points last time, last Wednesday, in APJ 1775. Today we return to that theme first

brought up in APJ 1772, because their Pastor John said this, that God makes more of you

when he makes much of you for his sake than if he were to make much of you only for your sake.

That's a profound point we're thinking about deeply, but it also raises a question in a lot of

minds, because if God makes much of me, if he saves me, because he's doing it to make much of

himself, doesn't that remove some of the lustre of his love to me? That's the question on the table

today, and that's going to be answered in both sermons in the one on April 18th, and in the next

sermon, the other sermon on April 25th, both, of course, preached in 2010. I'm going to put two

brief clips together here in this one episode, and so to begin, here's Pastor John near the end of

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