Understanding Our Purpose: Created for God's Glory
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"God's aseity is his existence from himself, that is, he exists without influence or input or resources or forces or anything from outside himself. Or the shorthand way to say aseity in common English would be God's self-sufficiency. This is important because the biblical picture of God is that he is complete and sufficient and flawless and without any defect or deficiency in and of himself." [00:28:40]
"God says to Moses, 'I am who I am,' and he said, 'Say to the people of Israel, I am has sent me to you.' In other words, my very name Yahweh, which is built on the verb I am, occurs 600 times plus in the Bible. That very name, every time you read the name, usually translated capital L-O-R-D in the English versions, that very name bears witness to the absolute existence of God in and of himself." [00:31:40]
"God did not have to create the world in order to have full satisfying joy in the fellowship of the Trinity. So the doctrine of aseity or God's self-sufficiency not only protects the self-sufficiency and absoluteness of God's godness from any suggestion that creation is essential to his being—that's the danger, thinking that creation is part of his being and his being perfect." [00:51:52]
"Bring my sons from afar, my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made. Created for my glory. Now on the basis of that text and many like it, I see that pervading the entire Bible is the teaching that God does everything to communicate and display to his creatures his own glory, his greatness, his beauty, his worth." [00:52:17]
"The reason that the communication and display of God's glory is the overflow of his love is because that glory both rejoices the human heart supremely and reflects the greatness of God supremely. Or to say it with my favorite words, which you know, Tony, and we love together, God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." [00:58:56]
"God's eternal love in the fellowship of the Trinity was a perfectly God-satisfying, God-glorifying joy before there was any creation. God's fullness was on display for God among the persons of the Trinity, and God's fullness was the undiminished delight of the persons of the Trinity. And this is what he communicated in creation to us, to his people." [01:04:24]
"If you press even harder on me and say, but why, why did he do this if he was so full and happy without creation? I would say it's the nature of the fullness of the divine love to share itself. That's just what love is like in God, and this sharing is not the completion of God or the improvement of God." [01:08:00]
"Jonathan Edwards, I think, said it most memorably when he said it is no sign of a fountain's deficiency that it is prone to overflow. When the alarm goes off now at five or six or seven tomorrow morning, you can know this is glorious individually, personally, existentially so relevant. You can know the purpose for which God made you and why you should get out of bed." [01:11:12]
"We exist to see and savor and show the beauty and worth and greatness of God in every sphere of our lives. Paul said whether you eat or drink, in other words, the most great nitty-gritty things, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. First Corinthians 10:31." [01:14:47]
"We exist to bring our lives into alignment with the purpose of God in creation, namely his purpose to communicate his glory in the overflow of his God-exalting, soul-satisfying love. And what that alignment looks like is this: our magnifying God's glory by finding him to be the most satisfying reality in the universe." [01:17:36]
"God's fullness was on display for God among the persons of the Trinity, and God's fullness was the undiminished delight of the persons of the Trinity. And this is what he communicated in creation to us, to his people. He gave to all who would have it, all who would receive it as their treasure, he gave us a share in the God-displaying, God-glorifying delight that God has in God." [01:04:24]
"The fullness of divine love naturally overflows, sharing itself with creation. This sharing is not about completing God but about inviting us into the joy and delight that God has within himself. This is the nature of divine love, to overflow and to share, not out of necessity but out of the abundance of joy and love within the Trinity." [01:08:00]
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"God says to Moses, 'I am who I am,' and he said, 'Say to the people of Israel, I am has sent me to you.' In other words, my very name Yahweh, which is built on the verb I am, occurs 600 times plus in the Bible. That very name, every time you read the name, usually translated capital L-O-R-D in the English versions, that very name bears witness to the absolute existence of God in and of himself." [00:31:40]
"God did not have to create the world in order to have full satisfying joy in the fellowship of the Trinity. So the doctrine of aseity or God's self-sufficiency not only protects the self-sufficiency and absoluteness of God's godness from any suggestion that creation is essential to his being—that's the danger, thinking that creation is part of his being and his being perfect." [00:51:52]
"Bring my sons from afar, my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made. Created for my glory. Now on the basis of that text and many like it, I see that pervading the entire Bible is the teaching that God does everything to communicate and display to his creatures his own glory, his greatness, his beauty, his worth." [00:52:17]
"The reason that the communication and display of God's glory is the overflow of his love is because that glory both rejoices the human heart supremely and reflects the greatness of God supremely. Or to say it with my favorite words, which you know, Tony, and we love together, God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." [00:58:56]
"God's eternal love in the fellowship of the Trinity was a perfectly God-satisfying, God-glorifying joy before there was any creation. God's fullness was on display for God among the persons of the Trinity, and God's fullness was the undiminished delight of the persons of the Trinity. And this is what he communicated in creation to us, to his people." [01:04:24]
"If you press even harder on me and say, but why, why did he do this if he was so full and happy without creation? I would say it's the nature of the fullness of the divine love to share itself. That's just what love is like in God, and this sharing is not the completion of God or the improvement of God." [01:08:00]
"Jonathan Edwards, I think, said it most memorably when he said it is no sign of a fountain's deficiency that it is prone to overflow. When the alarm goes off now at five or six or seven tomorrow morning, you can know this is glorious individually, personally, existentially so relevant. You can know the purpose for which God made you and why you should get out of bed." [01:11:12]
"We exist to see and savor and show the beauty and worth and greatness of God in every sphere of our lives. Paul said whether you eat or drink, in other words, the most great nitty-gritty things, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. First Corinthians 10:31." [01:14:47]
"We exist to bring our lives into alignment with the purpose of God in creation, namely his purpose to communicate his glory in the overflow of his God-exalting, soul-satisfying love. And what that alignment looks like is this: our magnifying God's glory by finding him to be the most satisfying reality in the universe." [01:17:36]
"God's fullness was on display for God among the persons of the Trinity, and God's fullness was the undiminished delight of the persons of the Trinity. And this is what he communicated in creation to us, to his people. He gave to all who would have it, all who would receive it as their treasure, he gave us a share in the God-displaying, God-glorifying delight that God has in God." [01:04:24]
"The fullness of divine love naturally overflows, sharing itself with creation. This sharing is not about completing God but about inviting us into the joy and delight that God has within himself. This is the nature of divine love, to overflow and to share, not out of necessity but out of the abundance of joy and love within the Trinity." [01:08:00]
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