Understanding Human Depravity and God's Glory
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"All of the universe, all the suffering in the universe, all the events of the universe serve the magnifying of the grace of God in the suffering of Jesus Christ, and we will make Christ crucified, slain for us, the centerpiece of our worship forever and ever and ever." [00:57:24]
"The essence of our depravity is our deep preference, our deep preferring of created things, the glory of created things, the value of creative things, the satisfying nature of creative things, the joy of created things, the pleasure of created things, the significance of created things over the glory of God." [08:18:48]
"To love God is to prefer God over everything. So I'm back to my definition, even if I start with sin is lawlessness. You might say, but you're assuming something. You're assuming that loving God means preferring him, delighting in him, being satisfied in him, rejoicing in him, cherishing him, treasuring him." [12:04:55]
"Jeremiah 2:13 may come as close as anything in the Bible to defining evil the way I'm defining it, the heart of it. Jeremiah 2:13, my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the Fountain of Living Waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water." [16:36:00]
"The work of the ministry, pastors, is impossible. Just settle it. You're not mainly about getting your people to make choices. I don't like book titles like 'Love is a Choice.' The main thing we're after is stop loving the world, stop hating the light, have a total revolution of your affectional deep soul." [21:02:55]
"God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him. And if you give up on being satisfied in him and move away to be satisfied in other things, you don't succeed at half of his purpose; you fail at all of his purpose because he is not honored by you." [35:10:32]
"God is glorified not only by his glory being seen but by its being rejoiced in. There it is. All I do is make it rhyme. I'll say it again: God is glorified not only by his glories being seen, that is, apprehended and understood, but God is glorified by its being rejoiced in." [41:47:48]
"God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. In other words, the glory that God gets in verse 16 comes from the satisfaction referred to in the joy in verse 12. So those are my two biblical bases, there are others, one from Philippians 1:20 and one from Matthew 5." [54:15:55]
"The reason it is so serious to be depraved in the sense of preferring anything to God is that it not only nullifies the second half of God's Boule, God's purpose, namely that we have maximal joy in him, but also the first half, which is that his glory would shine forth and be displayed." [54:49:56]
"None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. So religion, which poses as seeking God, isn't. It's a means of self-justification instead of despairing of ourselves and our depravity and looking away to a substitute whose righteousness and whose death, blood, and righteousness are our only hope." [55:55:20]
"An unalterable bias toward good does not destroy the praiseworthiness of doing good or being that way. An unalterable bias toward good does not destroy praiseworthiness, namely God is unalterably biased toward doing good. He can only do good, and I would ask you, is he praiseworthy for that? He is." [59:13:57]
"Father, we just breathe a big aching sigh of relief because even though I haven't preached on the cross, I hope that for most of us here, it's just a millimeter beneath the surface of all this talk about our depravity. Where would we be if we didn't have a savior?" [01:05:51]
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"The essence of our depravity is our deep preference, our deep preferring of created things, the glory of created things, the value of creative things, the satisfying nature of creative things, the joy of created things, the pleasure of created things, the significance of created things over the glory of God." [08:18:48]
"To love God is to prefer God over everything. So I'm back to my definition, even if I start with sin is lawlessness. You might say, but you're assuming something. You're assuming that loving God means preferring him, delighting in him, being satisfied in him, rejoicing in him, cherishing him, treasuring him." [12:04:55]
"Jeremiah 2:13 may come as close as anything in the Bible to defining evil the way I'm defining it, the heart of it. Jeremiah 2:13, my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the Fountain of Living Waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water." [16:36:00]
"The work of the ministry, pastors, is impossible. Just settle it. You're not mainly about getting your people to make choices. I don't like book titles like 'Love is a Choice.' The main thing we're after is stop loving the world, stop hating the light, have a total revolution of your affectional deep soul." [21:02:55]
"God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him. And if you give up on being satisfied in him and move away to be satisfied in other things, you don't succeed at half of his purpose; you fail at all of his purpose because he is not honored by you." [35:10:32]
"God is glorified not only by his glory being seen but by its being rejoiced in. There it is. All I do is make it rhyme. I'll say it again: God is glorified not only by his glories being seen, that is, apprehended and understood, but God is glorified by its being rejoiced in." [41:47:48]
"God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. In other words, the glory that God gets in verse 16 comes from the satisfaction referred to in the joy in verse 12. So those are my two biblical bases, there are others, one from Philippians 1:20 and one from Matthew 5." [54:15:55]
"The reason it is so serious to be depraved in the sense of preferring anything to God is that it not only nullifies the second half of God's Boule, God's purpose, namely that we have maximal joy in him, but also the first half, which is that his glory would shine forth and be displayed." [54:49:56]
"None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. So religion, which poses as seeking God, isn't. It's a means of self-justification instead of despairing of ourselves and our depravity and looking away to a substitute whose righteousness and whose death, blood, and righteousness are our only hope." [55:55:20]
"An unalterable bias toward good does not destroy the praiseworthiness of doing good or being that way. An unalterable bias toward good does not destroy praiseworthiness, namely God is unalterably biased toward doing good. He can only do good, and I would ask you, is he praiseworthy for that? He is." [59:13:57]
"Father, we just breathe a big aching sigh of relief because even though I haven't preached on the cross, I hope that for most of us here, it's just a millimeter beneath the surface of all this talk about our depravity. Where would we be if we didn't have a savior?" [01:05:51]
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