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To: newblood
I read about 3/4 of this beautiful and powerfull sermon you posted.

Absolutely the opposite was meant. God DOES take pleasure in His glory.

Glad you enjoyed it:

Psalm 27:4 One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple.
Let the response of the heart simply be stunned silence at the Radiance of the Lord. Be still and know that I am God! Worship is a way of reflecting back the Glory of God. It is not an act of willpower in outward acts. When one does not have feelings, then the worship is dead.

When one in a hedonistic passion longs for God, then glorifying God in worship cannot be contained.

I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete until it is expressed. - C.S. Lewis
All the works of God culminate in the praises of His redeemed people. The climax of His happiness is the delight He takes in the echoes of His excellence in the praises of the saints. This praise is the consummation of our own joy in God. Therefore God's pursuit of praise from us and our pursuit of pleasure in Him are the same pursuit. This is the great gospel! This is the foundation of Christian Hedonism. - John Piper

The chief end of man is to glorify God
BY
enjoying Him forever.

82 posted on 02/15/2002 8:01:09 PM PST by CCWoody
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