The following resource is from desiring God.org.

We ended last night defending that God's self-exaltation, especially his self-exaltation in the cross,

is an act of love and not megalomania or egotania.

It is love. It sounds egot maniacal, maniacal to certain people that I quoted

because they don't have the biblical mindset to see it in what it is.

And the main reason I gave for why God's self-exaltation in the cross and everywhere else is an act of love is because the one source of pleasure that

will be deep enough to satisfy us and long enough to satisfy us forever is the sight of the

glory of God in the face of Christ.

If God in some kind of mock humility sends us away from himself to go find our pleasure somewhere else and to find a satisfying admiration somewhere else, he will hate us.

It will look humble.

It will be what the world thinks a God perhaps ought to do is make them central.

Go find a human to be happy with. Go find a

sunset to be satisfied with. Go find a canyon to be moved by, but I'm not going to call

any attention to myself as God.

What a tragedy that would be for us.

So that's where we ended striking the note that God's self-exaltation, whether it be in the words of Christ,

you must love me above everybody, or whether it be in the act of

the cross, I am doing this to demonstrate my righteousness and vindicate my holiness that has been trampled by millions of sins that I have passed

over.

Whichever way it is love.

I hope you can make that plain so that your people glory in God's God centered

and do not feel it as a threat to their joy but as the ground of their joy.

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