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🗓️ 29 October 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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From award speeches to success stories, glory is consistently self-attributed. So, what does it look like to be motivated by God’s glory? In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland consider the foundation of soli Deo Gloria, or “for the glory of God alone.” As they wrap up this series on the five solas in this episode, they also reflect on the current state of the relationship between Protestants and Roman Catholics.
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0:00.0 | Not to say that every person who wants to go and to start a church where Christ has not |
0:06.1 | been named is bad, but I think there's such an interweaving of this sort of self-seeking |
0:12.4 | put an asterisk by what God has done with my name that we take verses like this where |
0:18.0 | Paul is saying a good thing and then we make it about us. |
0:21.9 | Paul's actually saying the opposite right there, right? |
0:23.9 | Like I make it my impression, ambition to preach the gospel wherever I go, but I'm not |
0:27.8 | going to go and try and supplant somebody because I'm the Apostle Paul. |
0:31.2 | Like if the gospel's there, I'm going to go somewhere else so they can ask me. |
0:33.8 | Almost like I make it my ambition to not be ambitious. |
0:36.4 | Yeah, well, and I think we do the opposite. |
0:39.0 | We say, well, I'm going to go to that place where Christ has not been named. |
0:42.0 | So whatever happens is because I did it. |
0:44.2 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
0:44.7 | And that's really what I think that ambition in a negative sense has done to this verse. |
0:48.4 | Got Captain Grace the Apostle Paul and First Corinthians. |
0:52.0 | But by the grace of God, I am what I am in his grace towards me was not in vain on the contrary. |
0:56.5 | I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is in me. |
1:01.0 | But what I like about this is that this speaks to the ambition because |
1:05.5 | if we're resting in the righteousness of Christ, |
1:08.4 | that undoes our self-justifying ambition. |
1:12.3 | And this is the irony of receiving and resting actually frees us up to actually pursue proper ambitions. |
1:26.5 | Applying the riches of the Reformation to the modern church, |
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