Is God's God-centeredness precious to you?

This question is one of those continental divides of all theological systems.

How you answer it determines how your entire theology develops.

Is God's God-centeredness precious to you?

I pick up the conversation in Pastor John's trip this year to Northern Ireland.

What makes it interesting here is the biographical context that gets pulled into the topic, something

I have not heard about before.

Here now is Pastor John talking about God's holiness in his glory.

Here's where we pick up the conversation.

I think in Biblical terms generally, I can't make this work in every text.

I would just say generally the holiness of God, not sure about the holiness of temple utensils or people,

the holiness of God is generally his intrinsic beauty and greatness and worth.

And when that goes on display, the Bible calls it his glory.

They're not radically different realities.

God is who he is, why he's great.

He's beautiful.

He's infinitely valuable in himself without any creation and existence.

But when the heavens were created, they were telling the glory of the Lord.

When the Son of God came, we saw his glory.

Glory is the only Son from the Father.

The glory of God is the intrinsic worth, the intrinsic beauty, the intrinsic greatness, gone public for you to admire and worship and enjoy.

Hebrews 1, 3 speaks of a radiance of the glory of God.

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