I Will Magnify Him with Thanksgiving

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🗓️ 23 November 1980

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

What does an all-sufficient God, who owns and controls all things, demand from the creature he has made? That we cease to be great in our own eyes and become small that he might appear great.

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0:00.0	Psal 69 versus 30, 31 and 32.
0:09.3	I will praise the name of God with a song. I will magnify him with Thanksgiving.
0:17.0	This will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs. Let the oppressed see it and be glad. You who seek the
0:29.0	Lord let your hearts revive.
0:36.0	I will praise the name of God with a song.
0:40.0	I will magnify him with Thanksgiving. I will magnify God with Thanksgiving. It is a mark of all the true children of God that they long to magnify God, the God of their
1:00.0	salvation.
1:01.0	Psalm 40, may all who seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee.
1:06.2	May all who love thy salvation say continually, great is the Lord.
1:12.0	Psalm 34, oh magnify the Lord. Psalm 34.
1:13.0	Oh, magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together.
1:18.0	Psalm 48.
1:20.0	Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised.
1:25.0	This was the heart cry of every Old Testament saint,
1:29.0	and I think that it's the heart cry and the longing of every Christian in the New Testament
1:35.0	because Paul said whatever you do, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do,
1:41.0	do everything to the glory of God. That is do everything in such a way
1:49.2	that God will be magnified. If you've met the son of God and you have closed with him in faith, then will not your heart say with Paul. It is my eager expectation and hope that I
2:07.4	shall not at all be ashamed but with all boldness now as always, Christ might be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
2:21.5	Therefore I say it is the mark of all true children of God that they long
2:29.5	that God be magnified in their lives. And if you don't feel that longing, examine yourself this morning.
2:38.5	And my prayer is that it'll happen, shall we pray?
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