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Amen, Lord. When this poor stammering, lisping tongue is all finished, we will groan our way into glory and sing your power to save.

Keep us faithful to that end, I pray.

Bethlehem College and Seminary Longs to be faithful to you to the end. Help us now, help me in this moment to be faithful to your word and to continue this worship

over your word.

I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. My theme is the joy of the Lord or the joy of God.

And I'm going to begin with my conclusion

because my aim is not to surprise you but to persuade you and to bring you with me to a conclusion with your well-founded and heartfelt agreement.

So here's my conclusion.

God's ultimate aim in creation and redemption and

and providence is to display and communicate

his glory by bringing into being and preparing and preserving a glorious

a glorious bride for his son whose beauty will consist most essentially in her being supremely satisfied in the son with the very satisfaction that the

father has in the son.

There are other ways to say it like this.

God's ultimate aim is to

share God's joy is to share God's joy in God's

in God.

Or, one more way to say it. in God's ultimate aim is the aim of the gospel, which is the grace of God's

ultimate aim is the aim of the gospel which is the grace of God sending the son of God to show the love of God by dying

for the sinful people of God so that they share in the joy of God

without impugning the righteousness of God forever.

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