Delighting in the Divine Glory of Scripture

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The devil is doctrinally more orthodox than most evangelicals, and the difference is that he hates almost everything he affirms in the Bible. So, I thought perhaps he could be a member of ETS because he could affirm these truths, but on second thought, I don't think so. [00:01:26]

What keeps the devil out and keeps us in is the connection between the truth of the word and the beauty and preciousness of what it reveals, not just its truth. What keeps him out and us in is the connection between affirming the truth of the word and the Trinity and treasuring the value of the word in the Trinity. [00:03:56]

The glory of the Trinitarian God revealed in Scripture is a source of great joy. We don't just declare it to be true; the devil does that. We delight in the glory of the Trinitarian God. The glory of God is the ground of our joy, and that's the most important difference between us and the devil. [00:04:54]

I've argued on countless occasions that not only were we made to be supremely satisfied in the glory of God, but this satisfaction itself is the way that God's glory is seen to shine most brightly. The greatness of the glory of God is what makes us supremely glad, and our supreme gladness in the glory of God is what makes the greatness of his glory shine in the world. [00:06:14]

The glory of God seen in Scripture is both the goal of the soul's satisfaction and the ground of the soul's certainty. The glory of God in Scripture proves itself not only to be incomparably rewarding to the heart but inescapably real to the mind. The quest for truth and the quest for joy are the same quest. [00:07:44]

There is a peculiar glory that shines through the meaning of the scriptures that shows it to be the Word of God, and this divine glory can be seen for what it really is by the eyes of the heart. It's a phrase from Ephesians 1:18, and you should devote much energy in your soul to knowing what they are in you. [00:14:38]

Edwards is arguing that a path to well-grounded conviction of the truth of the gospel and the scriptures that tell the story of the gospel is a path that a seven-year-old John Piper, a Sudanese villager, a Papua New Guinea tribesman can follow. It's a path that anyone can follow who has eyes to see, namely the path of seeing the glory of God in Scripture. [00:19:47]

The Scriptures manifest themselves to be the Word of God by the scope of the whole, which is to give all glory to God. They meant something by that. I don't know what it was. You can see how that's just pushing me to say, whoa, what does this mean by that? [00:21:14]

The Bible shows that God intends for us to have a well-grounded conviction that he is a powerful, wise, merciful creator and sustainer simply by our seeing his glory in and through creation. God intends for us to know, not just intend for us to know, he says we know every person on the planet knows that God made the world. [00:24:45]

The problem was not that the glory of Jesus was inadequate to manifest his deity or that the glory of the word is inadequate to manifest its divine origin. The problem, as Jesus said in Matthew 13, was seeing they do not see and hearing they do not hear. [00:34:06]

The gospel and the story of how God saves sinners, that story, the gospel emits a divine supernatural light. That's the name of one of Edward's sermons, a divine and supernatural light. He gets it from this verse to the eyes of the heart, not the eyes of the head. [00:35:04]

The whole Bible authenticates itself by the shining of the glory of God in and through it, which means that we know that the Scriptures are the Word of God because in their true meaning, we see the self-authenticating glory of God. [00:41:00]

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