Is God an Egomaniac?
Ask Pastor John
Desiring God
4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2013
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pastor John, what is this ministry we call Desiring God all about? |
| 0:10.1 | What drives us? |
| 0:11.1 | What's at the center of what you and us as a ministry of large are seeking to tell the |
| 0:15.5 | world? |
| 0:17.9 | One of the things Desiring God was started to spread and to communicate, to build into |
| 0:27.8 | people's lives was the truth. |
| 0:30.9 | God is most glorified in us when we're most satisfied in Him. |
| 0:35.2 | That's probably as close to the center of what we're about as anything, but it didn't |
| 0:41.6 | come out of nowhere. |
| 0:43.6 | Here's where it comes from. |
| 0:44.7 | This is so crucial for people to see. |
| 0:49.0 | God is radically God centered in the Bible. |
| 0:53.6 | It is radically God exalting, and that's all over the Bible. |
| 0:59.8 | He created us in His image. |
| 1:01.2 | He put seven billion images of Himself in the world. |
| 1:05.9 | Why would a person put seven billion images of Himself in a city? |
| 1:09.9 | Well, He wants to get attention for Himself. |
| 1:12.1 | God is radically self-exalting in creating us in His image, and He says in Isaiah 43, |
| 1:19.2 | I created you for my glory, to display my character, my power, my wisdom, my justice, |
| 1:28.0 | my truthfulness. |
| 1:30.4 | The question then always is, if God is that radically God exalting, how is He not an |
| 1:36.9 | egomaniac or how is He not a megalomaniac? |
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