Pray together. What's her name? Father in heaven I pray now for Alfreda and her husband and her children.

We never are weary of West asking for healing, Lord,

because we know if we were in that situation we'd want to be a mom and a grandmother.

And so we ask that you touch her.

Father, I pray that you would sustain faith. And I do pray now that what we do in these next 40 minutes or so would in fact make us ready to die.

To live is Christ and to die is gain if he is gain to us.

And my whole life is devoted to trying to see you more clearly and love you more dearly and follow you more nearly as the

treasure and the gain of my life. And I want so much to portray you in a way that will bring forth that kind of affections from every heart in this room.

So come, Holy Spirit, and bear the fruits of love and joy and peace in our lives.

Make the Son of God the treasure of our lives I pray.

In Jesus' name, Amen.

Well, since there are new folks here tonight, let me try to sum up where we've been and get us on track here. In the first message the aim was to show that everything God does he does in order to magnify his glory.

God is the most God-centered being in the universe. He is not an

idolater. He does not put above himself anybody else and therefore the most passionate heart for God in the universe is God.

Then we ask the question, if that's true, is it loving?

Since the Bible says love seeks not its own

and God is passionately seeking his own glory all the time is he a loving

God and we answered that question yes he is a loving God? And we answered that question, yes, he is a loving God

because he's the one being in the universe

for whom self-exaltation and virtue are synonymous, or self-exaltation and love are synonymous.

And the reason that is true is because nothing will satisfy your heart ultimately but to know and delight in and be in the presence of God.

Therefore if God loves you, he must preserve his glory unsullied for you.

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