All right, friends, enough of that. Today, we are talking about how to practically glorify God

in your life. It's important for us to remember that, that our greatest good is glorifying the Lord,

magnifying him. And that should be the end result of every good thing that we ever do, right?

Let your light so shine among men that they may

see your good works and glorify your father who is in heaven. And I can't think of anything more

insane, more futile, more in a sense, like spiritually suicidal than man trying to rob God of his glory,

trying to take what he's not designed to, like, hold.

You know, I've said it before, but it's like a fish trying to live naturally outside of water,

a man trying to live underwater naturally. You weren't designed for that. And the end result is

going to be like radical tragic demise. And when we try

to take from God what only belongs to him, what rightly belongs to him, we're doing something

radically unnatural.

Piper put it this way. Every man that visits a brothel is secretly seeking after God,

but he doesn't know it. So good. Right? Because he has been

birthed inside of his DNA, that deoxyribonucleic acid within, within their very being, to seek

after God, something greater, someone greater than themselves, right? Nobody goes to the Grand Canyon

to feel better about themselves, right? We go to the Grand Canyon because

we know that there is something greater than ourselves. And I remember I was at Lake Shasta

on a houseboat with some friends and my family at one time. And I was looking at these trees.

The helicopter dropped me off. And as I was on this houseboat, I was just in this place of worship. And my brother's friend,

who was an atheist, his name was Steve, he came alongside. And he goes, what are you smiling at?

And I said, what do you see when you look out into the horizon? I see trees. And I said, yeah,

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