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🗓️ 25 June 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, we know that God is most glorified in those who most love Him, and that is why |
0:09.3 | God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him, but is God at all glorified |
0:15.4 | in those who reject Him. |
0:17.6 | It's the question from an international listener today named Jenred, Jenred asks this |
0:23.1 | Pastor John, if God is most glorified when we are most satisfied in Him, why does he use |
0:28.1 | that nearly constant refrain so that they may know that I am the Lord in reference to |
0:34.2 | things that would not bring about the satisfaction of anyone, and we're certainly not done for |
0:39.4 | that specific purpose. |
0:41.2 | There are many times when God seems to me perfectly content with people seeing His glory |
0:46.6 | and realizing that He is God, even though that realization is in terror and in judgment. |
0:52.9 | How do you make sense of this? |
0:55.0 | This is a really important question, especially for someone like me who is a Christian hedonist, |
1:00.4 | but really it's an important question for everyone because it's about God's ultimate |
1:06.9 | purposes, both in painful things as well as pleasant things and how they relate to the |
1:14.8 | glory of God and His commitment to glorify Himself in everything He does. |
1:20.5 | So let me restate the question so that we all have it clear and can see the relevance |
1:27.5 | of it. |
1:28.9 | He's responding to the central claim of Christian hedonism, namely, God is most glorified in |
1:34.8 | us when we are most satisfied in Him. |
1:38.4 | And His question assumes rightly that God is zealous for His glory. |
1:47.3 | He is always committed to uphold and magnify and communicate His glory. |
1:55.1 | And He alludes to the first question of the Westminster Catechism, which asks what's |
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