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Glorifying God

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According to C.H. Spurgeon, Thomas Watson ‘was one of the most concise, racy, illustrative, and suggestive’ of the Puritans.  ‘There is a happy union of sound doctrine, heart-searching experience and practical wisdom throughout all his works, and his Body of Divinity is, beyond all the rest, useful to the student and the minister.’  What follows is a precis of what Watson has to say on glorifying God:-

Everything has an end, or purpose; man’s chief end is to glorify God, 1 Cor 10:31. …

The kingdom of God

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The kingdom defined

Graham Goldsworthy (Gospel and Kingdom, 47) has defined the kingdom of God as:

(a) God’s people
(b) in God’s place
(c) under God’s rule

Examples:

(a) Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
(b) The descendents of the patriarchs in the promised land
(c) The Israelites in the united kingdom of David and Solomon

Along similar lines, we may say that the kingdom of God (or similar expression) is God’s kingly rule manifested in the lives of his people, Lk 17:21, effecting their salvation, Mar 10:28-29. …

Quotes on God’s love

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. (Augustine)

“My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.” (Thomas Goodwin)

“I think it is possible on earth to build a young, new Jerusalem, a little, new heaven of this surpassing love. God, either send me more of this love, or take me quickly over the water, where I may be filled with his love.”…

Can we know God? – sermon notes

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[These are the notes of a sermon I preached at Holy Trinity, Norwich, in June 2007.  It was one in a short series in which we sought to address some of the issues raised by Prof Richard Dawkins in his well-known book, The God Delusion.  One or two people nearly fell off their seats when they heard what I had to say in the first 2 or 3 paragraphs.   But I was just teasing, as you will see:-]

Manx Shearwater! …

The difficult doctrine of the love of God

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It might seem strange to describe the doctrine of the love of God as ‘difficult’.  But it is, and D.A. Carson explains why.

1. Because if people today believe in God at all, then they are almost certain to believe that he is a God of love, and yet the very concept of love is likely to be shaped by the surrounding culture rather than by Scripture. For example, in Jodie Foster’s Contact the unexplained intelligence is ‘suffused with love, wisely provident, gently awesome’.…

‘God is Love’

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The statement, “God is love” (1 John 4:8,16),  ‘is one of the most tremendous utterances in the Bible – and also one of the most misunderstood.  False ideas have grown up round it like a hedge of thorns, hiding its real meaning from view, and it is no small task cutting through this tangle of mental undergrowth.  Yet the hard thought involved is more than repaid when the true sense of these texts comes home to the Christian soul. …