Welcome back to the podcast last Wednesday.

We looked at the fact that God makes much of us his children.

He really does make much of us.

Why does he make so much of us?

He makes so much of us because he is glorifying himself by redeeming us.

And ABJ 1772, we looked at that point in detail.

But in that same sermon, we get another point added.

It's a follow up in one essential to the overall argument Pastor John is making.

It's worth reflecting on here in the podcast because Pastor John knows that for many people

to hear that they were saved so that God would glorify himself in us

seems to take away some of the luster of that love.

Pastor John will directly push back against that point a little bit later.

He'll answer that question and that concern and show clearly why it's not less loving for God to love us for himself.

But before we get there and we'll get there soon,

Pastor John wants to simply dwell on this previously stated fact.

If you are God's bloodbought child, God makes much of you.

He does. He really does.

In fact, he makes more of you and more of me than we could ever dare imagine.

Here's the biblical proof he was eager to share with his church and this is what he told them.

So that's what I meant when I said, why does the Bible relentlessly reveal the love of God for us

in a way that constantly calls attention to the fact that it is done for his glory

because so many people when they hear that feel it as not loving.

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