I would like to try to persuade you this morning that the chief end of God is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.

Or to put it another way, the chief end of God is to enjoy glorifying himself.

And the reason that may sound strange to put it like that is because we are more

familiar with our duties than we are with God's designs. We know why we exist. We exist to glorify

God and enjoy Him forever. But why does God exist? What should God love with all his heart and all his

soul and all his mind and all his strength? What should God worship? Or will we deny to him the

highest of pleasures? It matters a lot what God's highest allegiances are.

I left four sons at home in Minneapolis.

If you were to go there in my absence and ask them,

what's your dad's highest allegiance?

And they said, I don't know.

I'd be real disappointed.

And if you ask them, what lies heaviest on your dad's heart?

What's he pursue in everything he does?

What's his goal? What's he passionately committed to?

And they said, I don't care. I would be really crushed. I'd be angry. It matters a lot for a child of God to know what lies heaviest on his father's heart. Now, God didn't leave us without an answer to the

question, what is the impulse that drives the Almighty? What is he pursuing in everything that he does?

It lies on the face of the scriptures at every point. From creation to

consummation, it's right there for those who have eyes to see and do not resent it. And so I want to

take a little survey with you of redemptive history and point out God's answer to the question

what drives him. Why does he do what he does? What moves him in all of his

actions? And then I want to try to raise two objections that will no doubt come to your mind

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