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Let's begin where we left off last night. My goal was to put ballast in your boat so that as you lift up the mast of purpose and spread out the sails of faith and are filled

with the wind of the spirit and start moving swiftly across the sea of your life.

You won't be tipped over easily by the cross winds that are going to come in your life.

The ballast that I wanted to put in your boat was that God's

greatest passion is his passion for his own name, his passion for his glory.

He calls you to share in that passion and to find your greatest joy in the greatness of his glory.

He calls you to display that for the peoples of the world

and the reason that can be good news for them

and this is the heart of what we saw

is that Christ died for sinners in such a way that God is exalted and sinners are forgiven without the righteousness of God being compromised.

Christ died for us in such a way as to uphold the worth of the glory of God

while God passes over glory trampling sinners like us. This is what sin is and we do it every day

with our minds and our hearts and our actions. We belittle the glory of God.

God is passionately concerned that his glory not be belittled.

And so if he's gonna save sinners,

millions and millions of sinners

who collectively trample his glory every day, something awesome had to happen.

And what happened was the death of his son to absorb all the justice and all the wrath that was destined for us God

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