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I don’t know how much interest you’ve paid to the sermon series’s that we have been through since September.
I don’t mean week to week,
listening to the sermon and trying to apply one or 2 bits to your life that week.
I mean to the big picture.
We started with 1 john, a series called Jesus Followers -
Becasue it is important we are able to define and live like Jesus followers.
Saved purely by grace,
but saved to live a life characterised by a fight against sin,
a fight to love God and each other,
and a fight to obey God in His word.
Then we started Ezekiel.
Why? Because I think something we lack is a healthy,
reverent fear for the almighty Glory of God,
that results in overflowing praise.
Daily with our lives -, we are to bow down to our Glorious God.
and so we’ll pick up in Ezekiel again in a couple of weeks.
We had our Christmas series -
Did you notice the emphasis the sermons
took as we went through the nativity story?
It was all about giving Glory to God!
The culmination on Christmas Morning where we saw how the angels
announced the good news to the shepherds of Jesus’ birth.
It was a call to ‘Glorify God’
Glory to God in the Highest Heaven, and peace of earth to those on whom his favour rests.
The Westminster shorter catechism,
drawing on the whole cannon of Scripture tells us the chief end (or mission) of man?
Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.
SO the obvious question is, if we are Jesus Followers,
made right with God freely through Jesus,
then are we now striving to glorifying God?
Is that our overriding,
all consuming,
prayer driven,
energy sapping aim in this life?
to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever?
I would guess we don’t even think about it enough,
let alone do it!
But how sad and foolish of us when we fool ourselves
into thinking some other idol or aim is better.
This Sunday is ‘Co-mission Sunday’
I’ll be preaching at King’s Church in Walton,
and Simon Martin from there will be preaching here
(try not to get too much pastor envy!)
And the theme this year is ‘We Live by the word of God’
And so I’ll be preaching on .
A Psalm of 176 verse and in every single one (but 5) there is a reference to God’s Word.
I always say you shouldn’t have favourite bible verses,
books or passages - becasue it is all inspired by God.
But if you are to have one then this Psalm is it.
Why?
becasue it reminds you how incredible all the rest of the bible is!
It’s a love poem about the bible!
So what’s my point?
Well, to glorify God and enjoy him forever, we need to refreshingly study, read, engage with and love the bible.
To consume ourselves in glorifying God we need to consume ourselves in His word.
Psal 119
How can a young person stay on the path of purity?
By living according to your word.
I seek you with all my heart;
do not let me stray from your commands.
I have hidden your word in my heart
that I might not sin against you.
Praise be to you, Lord;
teach me your decrees.
With my lips I recount
all the laws that come from your mouth.
I rejoice in following your statutes
as one rejoices in great riches.
I meditate on your precepts
and consider your ways.
I delight in your decrees;
I will not neglect your word.
Line by line,
glorifying God through love,
obedience,
emotions,
decisions and hard work,
is tied directly to knowing,
reading,
meditating on,
learning and
recounting God’s word!
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Let us this year be people who Glorify God and enjoy Him, before all other concerns in this life.
And let us do that by being consumed in God’s word.
Pray -
18 Open our eyes that we may see
wonderful things in your law.
19 We are strangers on earth;
do not hide your commands from us.
20 Our souls are consumed with longing
for your laws at all times.
Amen
The New International Version. (2011). (). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.