“[God] wills creatures, not for something they are or that is in them, but for his own sake. He remains his own goal. He never focuses on his creatures as such, but through them he focuses on himself. Proceeding from himself, he returns to himself. It is one single propensity that drives him to himself as the ultimate end and to his creatures as the means to that end. His love for himself incorporates into itself the love he has for his creatures and through them returns to himself. Therefore, his willing, also in relation to creatures, is never a striving for some as yet unpossessed good and hence no sign of imperfection and infelicity. On the contrary: his willing is always – also in and through his creatures – absolute self-enjoyment, perfect blessedness, divine rest.”
- Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, p. 2.233
How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose! ... You drove them from me, you who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place, you who are sweeter than all pleasure.
Augustine
God would be unrighteous (just as we would) if he valued anything more than what is supremely valuable. If he did not take infinite delight in the worth of his own glory he would be unrighteous. For it is right to take delight in a person in proportion to the excellence of that person's glory.
John Piper Desiring God pg. 32
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Notes |
The Glory of Christ  |
John Owen |
God Glorified in Man's Dependence  |
Jonathan Edwards - 1 Corinthians 1:29-31 |
Biblical Texts to Show God’s Zeal for His Own Glory  |
John Piper |
The End for Which God Created the World (.pdf)  |
Jonathan Edwards |
God's Passion for His Glory - Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards (.pdf)  |
John Piper  |
God Glorified in Sanctification  |
by Kim Riddlebarger |
God Glorified in The Cross of Christ  |
Michael Horton |
Falling Short of God's Glory  |
Robert Barnes |
The Glory of God in the Cross of Christ  |
Matt Perman |
Of Man's Chief End and Happiness  |
Thomas Boston |
Is God Less Glorious Because He Ordained that Evil Be?  |
John Piper |
To God be the Glory  |
Wayne Mack - A Popular Exposition of the Biblical Doctrine of Particular Redemption |
All to the Glory of God  |
Tom Ascol |
Glorious Grace  |
Jonathan Edwards - The gospel dispensation is finished wholly and entirely in free and glorious grace: there is glorious grace, shines in every part of the great work of redemption; the foundation is laid in grace, the superstructure is reared in grace... |
All Things are From God, Through God, and To God. The Glory Is All His  |
John Piper - Romans 11:33-36 |
God's Passion for His Glory  |
Dustin Shramek |
The Eternal Glories Gleam Afar  |
Ian Hamilton |
The Supremacy of God in the Life and Thought of John Calvin  |
Jeremy Bass |
By what Death will You glorify God?  |
John Piper |
The Glory of the Redeemer  |
Octavious Winslow |
The Glory of Christ in HIs Offices  |
William Plummer |
The Glory of Christ in Heaven  |
Octavious Winslow |
Enjoying God in Work and Leisure  |
Matt Perman |
How Does a Christian Hedonist Live?  |
Matt Perman |
Enjoyment is Not Optional  |
Matt Perman |
Delighting in Doing Good  |
Matt Perman |
How to Do Good so God Gets the Glory  |
John Piper |
Our Passion for God's Supremacy, Part 1  |
John Piper |
God's Ultimate Purpose: Vessels of Mercy Knowing the Riches of His Glory  |
John Piper |
God created Us for His Glory  |
John Piper |
Faith: In Hope, against Hope, for the Glory of God  |
John Piper |
Let us Exult in the Hope of the Glory of God  |
John Piper |
What Makes the Good News Good? Seeing the Glory of Christ  |
John Piper |
OUR HOPE: THE GLORY OF GOD  |
John Piper |
Is God for us or for Himself?  |
John Piper |
How to Do Good So That God Gets the Glory  |
John Piper |
Welcome One Another to the Glory of God  |
John Piper |
The War Against the Soul and the Glory of God  |
John Piper |
Predestined for Adoption to the Praise of His Glory  |
John Piper |
Jesus: Worthy of More Glory than Moses  |
John Piper |
What is the Glory of Christ?  |
W. E. Best |
Honoring the True God  |
W. E. Best |
The Pleasure of God in His Name  |
John Piper - 1 Samuel 12:22 |
How to Do Good So That God Gets the Glory  |
John Piper |
How To Drink Orange Juice to the Glory of God  |
John Piper |
The Glory of God in the Problem of Evil  |
Matt Perman |
On Glorying Only in the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ  |
John Calvin |
God’s Passion For His Glory Isaiah 42:1-9  |
Rev. Bryn MacPhail |
Glory of God at Stake in God's Foreknowledge of Human Choices?  |
John Piper - Jonathan Edwards' Response to Gregory Boyd |
The Glory of God (Series)  |
John Piper |
Predestination for God's Glory: A Study of Ephesians 1:3-14  |
Rev Charles Biggs |
How Edwards Pursued the Glory of God (.pdf)  |
Steve Lawson |
God's Loving Self-Exaltation: A Response to Ben Witherington  |
John Piper |
How Is God's Passion for His Own Glory Not Selfishness?  |
John Piper |
How Has God Made Much of Us?  |
John Piper |
A Brief Response to Ben Witherington  |
Dr. Sam Storms |
Quest: Joy! Found: Christ!  |
John Piper |
The Glory of God in Motivation 5 of 5 (MP3)  |
Paul Washer - HeartCry Missionary Society |
God Glorified in Conversion  |
Roger Nicole |
Predestination and the Glory of God  |
W. Robert Godfrey, Ph.D. |
The Glory of God in Salvation through Judgment (.pdf)  |
Jim Hamilton |
What Is Your One Thing?  |
Paul David Tripp |
What is the Principal Exercise of Faith?  |
Ian Hamilton |
Feasting in a Fast-Food World  |
Michael Horton |
The Heavens (and the Hubble) Are Telling the Glory of God  |
Al Mohler |
God's Glory the Chief End of Man's Being  |
Hugh Binning |
God Glorified in Justification  |
Rick Ritchie |
God Glorified in Our Calling  |
Alan Maben |
God Glorified in Our Worship  |
Ken Myers |
To Whom Be the Glory?  |
Robert Barnes |
WHat is the Chief End of Man?  |
Iain D Campbell |
The Glory of God (.pdf)  |
Tom Austin, Reformation & Revival 4:2 (Spring 1995): 41-57. |
Worship And The Glory Of God (.pdf)  |
Ron Man, Reformation & Revival 9.2 (Spring 2000): 79-99. |
The Other Side of the Cross: Suffering and the Glory of God (.pdf)  |
BOB SJOGREN |
The Theater of God’s Glory  |
David Hall |
Where to Find the Glory of Jesus Christ (.pdf)  |
Oshea Davis |
The Claims of God (.pdf)  |
C. H. Spurgeon |
How Does Hell Glorify God?  |
James M. Hamilton Jr. - Hell glorifies God by vindicating his holiness and faithfulness to his word, demonstrating his infinite worth, and magnifying his mercy and love toward the redeemed. |
What is God's glory?  |
John Piper |
A View of God's Glory  |
C.H. Spurgeon |
The Weight of Glory  |
C.S. Lewis |
All Things Created for Christ  |
Edward Payson |
How to Live for God’s Glory  |
Dr. John MacArthur |
God's Glory, Our Excellence  |
Paul Tripp |
Evangelism for God’s Glory  |
Burk Parsons |
The Glory of God as the Goal of History  |
John Piper |
Consider the Glory of God  |
Sinclair Ferguson |
The Missing Motive  |
Eric Alexander |
Our Calling and God's Glory  |
Gene Edward Veith |
Visual Theology - To the Glory of God  |
Tim Challies |
The Glory of God  |
Keith Mathison |
Seeing God Face to Face  |
Kim Riddlebarger |
His Glory Is Our Story  |
John Sartelle |
The Glory of God  |
Sam Storms |