All of the election, all of redemption, all of sealing, all of predestination are unto

the praise of the glory of His grace, which means God has, from all eternity, planned

out the history of redemption that we might praise His grace.

Indeed, God has planned all of human history in order to magnify the glory of His grace.

That's the truth John Piper exalts in in this episode of Light and Truth.

The sermon was originally preached at Wheaton College on February 9, 1998.

I want to try to persuade you this morning or at least get you to consider very seriously

the fact that the most God-centered person in the world is God, or say it another way that

God and not you, or I, is uppermost in His own affections, or God is not an idolator,

that is, He does not put in the energy and the place of His admiration and joy,

the creation where God should be. God keeps God where God should be

on the throne of His own affections and commitments.

The infinite energy of ultimate reality is the energy of eternal worship

in the Godhead. God, the Father, looks out over the panorama of His own affections,

reflected back to Him in the Son, who is the exact representation of His glory,

with love and admiration and infinitely energetic delight, and the Son reciprocates

and that energy stands forth in another person, the Holy Spirit.

Infinite energy that begets the universe is the energy of intra-divine worship.

Yesterday morning after the sermon, a student came up and said, he's taking a course from

a Muslim on Islam over the University of Minnesota across the highway, and that Friday,

he had gotten into discussion about the oneness of God in Islam, and he had had the boldness

to stand up and say, I believe that God is three persons in one, and that God, the Father,

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