counseling and glorifying God on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association

of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

The glory of God is central to Scripture, and because it's central to Scripture, it's central to the Christian life, and that's why we want to talk about it on the podcast this week.

In October, on the 2nd, the 3rd, and the 4th, the first Monday, Tuesday,

Wednesday of that month of this year, the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors is having

our annual conference on biblical counseling, where we will focus on the topic of biblical

counseling and the Protestant Reformation. Our goal during those days is to talk about the five

solas of the Reformation and talk about how they find a natural home in the ministry of counseling

and how it is the biblical counseling movement who best portrays the commitment to the solas and

works out those in the context of ministry.

We're actually going to be making the controversial point that it is biblical counseling

that is the most faithful manifestation in terms of the counseling world of the principles

of the Protestant Reformation.

And this week we're going to talk about the relationship of counseling to the glorification

of God. When you talk about the glory of God, in Christian theology, we talk about two realities

pertaining to the glory of God. And I want to talk about each one of those by looking at Psalm 138,

verses 4 to 6. And in those verses, the Bible says, all the kings of the earth will give thanks to you,

O Lord, when they have heard the words of your mouth. And they will sing of the ways of the Lord,

for great is the glory of the Lord. For though the Lord is exalted,

yet he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar. This is a text that talks about the

glory of God in its internal sense. When theologians talk about the internal glory of God, they are talking about

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