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  GOD DESIGNS HIS SELF EXALTATION
  by John Piper
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Summary: This sermon delves into the concept that for God to truly love
us, He must reveal the fullness of His glory for our eternal joy, which
includes His self-exaltation. Unlike humans, God's self-exaltation is
not a contradiction to His love but rather the highest virtue and act of
love. Attempting to exalt ourselves is considered blasphemy, as only God
is truly worthy of exaltation and is the sole satisfaction for our
souls.

Topics: "God's Glory", "True Exaltation"
Scripture References: Isaiah 42:8, Psalm 16:11, Philippians 2:9, Psalm 73:25

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DESCRIPTION
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This sermon delves into the concept that for God to truly love us, He
must reveal the fullness of His glory for our eternal joy, which
includes His self-exaltation. Unlike humans, God's self-exaltation is
not a contradiction to His love but rather the highest virtue and act of
love. Attempting to exalt ourselves is considered blasphemy, as only God
is truly worthy of exaltation and is the sole satisfaction for our
souls.

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CONTENT
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In order to love us, God must display to us for our own everlasting joy
the fullness of His glory, which is why it's not a contradiction for God
in all the designs of His love to be designing His self-exaltation. He
is the only being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is the
highest virtue and the most loving act. If you copy Him in this, you
blaspheme.

You cannot exalt yourself and call it love because you're not worth it.
But He exalts Himself and calls it love because He is worth it. He is
the only treasure that will satisfy our souls.

Therefore, He's the one being that must be radically self-exalting as He
is radically loving because they're the same.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/o55JLqlMI9Y.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/john-piper/god-designs-his-self-exaltation/
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