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Let's pray together.

So Father, we are about something supernatural as we come to your word in order to perceive in and through the meaning

of the text divine self authenticating glory.

So if we are left to ourselves,

we will be smart dead damned people.

And so don't leave us to ourselves in the reading or now in the opening and preaching of the scriptures.

Come and may supernatural things happen in every person in this room. I pray. In Jesus' name,

amen. So for the first 50 years or so of my ministry bringing me up to now more or less, I have focused

on trying to help people see and savor and show the glory of God to make much of the glory of God, to make much of the glory of God by enjoying him forever.

The chief end of man is to glorify God and says and and Piper has devoted the last 50 years of his life to

saying instead of and by. The chief hand of man is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever.

And I've tried to write everything I write to explain that preposition by.

Now, for the last five years or so, without abandoning that overarching aim, purpose of my ministry, I have been focusing not so much on making a case for the glory of

God shining through our satisfaction in it,

but rather the glory of God,

and its foundation as our knowledge of God, knowledge. So instead of focusing on glory and delight, it's glory and

certainty. What's the relationship between the glory of God and your certainty that this is the word of God?

That's what I've been thinking a lot about.

So the first and the overarching is the glory of God and spiritual affections,

and the other one is the glory God and spiritual knowledge.

And that's our focus this morning.

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