Post by Les Brewer on Sept 11, 2020 21:28:29 GMT
God’s Great Joy in Redemption
Let’s turn back to Luke chapter 15. And as you know, as I said last week, we usually cover a few verses; but these days we’re endeavoring to cover larger portions of Scripture, and I want to take you back into the fifteenth chapter of Luke, one of the most powerful chapters in all of Holy Scripture. There is a rare theme in preaching. I said this fifteen years ago when we went through the gospel of Luke and came to this chapter. I don’t remember how many messages I preached on this chapter, but I think it was at least ten or more, and I, at the time, said I may be introducing something to you that you never heard of before, namely the joy of God. We think about God in a lot of ways, but normally people don’t think of God as joyful. But God does everything He does for His own joy. It was Jonathan Edwards who said, “God’s single end in redemption is His own joy.” God has a compelling interest in the recovery of sinners for His own joy.
If you wish to continue reading this then please follow this next link or scroll down for the recorded sermon. www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/81-90/gods-great-joy-in-redemption
Let’s turn back to Luke chapter 15. And as you know, as I said last week, we usually cover a few verses; but these days we’re endeavoring to cover larger portions of Scripture, and I want to take you back into the fifteenth chapter of Luke, one of the most powerful chapters in all of Holy Scripture. There is a rare theme in preaching. I said this fifteen years ago when we went through the gospel of Luke and came to this chapter. I don’t remember how many messages I preached on this chapter, but I think it was at least ten or more, and I, at the time, said I may be introducing something to you that you never heard of before, namely the joy of God. We think about God in a lot of ways, but normally people don’t think of God as joyful. But God does everything He does for His own joy. It was Jonathan Edwards who said, “God’s single end in redemption is His own joy.” God has a compelling interest in the recovery of sinners for His own joy.
If you wish to continue reading this then please follow this next link or scroll down for the recorded sermon. www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/81-90/gods-great-joy-in-redemption
