GOD’S WORD FOR JUNE 17~ ~ 1 Corinthians 10:31~ ~”Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”

More from John Piper’s “The Pleasures of God”

How did the death of Christ do that (demonstrate the inexpressible passion God has for the worth of his glory and for vindication of his righteousness)

We know that everything Jesus did in life and death he did for the glory of his Father. For example, as he approaches the hour of his death, he says, “Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say, ‘Father save me from this hour?’ No! For this purpose I have come to this hour. FATHER GLORIFY YOUR NAME” ~ ~ John 12:27-28

The very purpose for which Jesus came to the hour of his death was to glorify the Father. Jesus wants us to see that his willingness to lose his life is because of his love for the glory of the Father. This is how the worth of God’s glory is magnified in the death of Jesus.

Again, when Judas had left the Last Supper and Jesus’ death was imminent, he said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified and in him God is glorified” (John 13:31) This is the basic transaction happening in the last hours of Jesus’ suffering. In his great prayer in John 17 he views his death as virtually accomplished and says, “I have glorified you, Father, upon the earth, having accomplished the work you gave me to do” (John 17:4).

All of Jesus’ work was designed to honor the worth of his Father’s glory. Everything Jesus suffered, he suffered for the sake of God’s glory.

Therefore, all his pain, shame, humiliation and dishonor served to magnify the Father’s glory, because they showed how infinitely valuable God’s glory is, that such a loss should be suffered to demonstrate its worth.

When we look at the wracking pain and death of the perfectly innocent and infinitely worthy Son of God on the cross, and hear that He endured it all so that the glory of his Father, which was desecrated by sinners, might be restored, then we know that God has NOT denied the value of his own glory;

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