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The Glory of God in the Gospel - Part 4
Pastor Tom Pennington's sermon, "The Glory of God in the Gospel," on Romans 11:33-36, contrasts a self-centered "I, Me, Mine" worldview with the biblical perspective that the gospel displays God's glory and demands our worship. Paul's doxology highlights God's inexhaustible attributes, unfathomable decisions, and ways. Verse 36, "For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things," summarizes God's eternal glory. "From Him" means God is the original source of all creation and salvation, initiating every aspect of existence and redemption. "Through Him" emphasizes God as the perpetual sustainer and director of all things, governing the universe and sovereignly orchestrating salvation from our effectual call to glorification, countering any notion of randomness or human agency in salvation. "To Him" signifies God as the ultimate end and purpose for all existence, created for His benefit and glory, not human happiness, directly refuting humanism. The passage concludes with the declaration, "To Him be the glory forever. Amen," which serves as both Paul's desire and a prayer that supreme glory be continually ascribed to God. This heartfelt "Amen" should be the response of all who grasp God's majestic plan of creation and redemption, acknowledging His sovereignty and ultimate purpose in everything.
The Glory of God in the Gospel - Part 3
Tom Pennington's sermon on Romans 11:33-36 highlights this passage as a profound doxology where Paul marvels at God's greatness, particularly as displayed in salvation, which surpasses even the vastness of creation. The gospel reveals God's inexhaustible attributes�His rich mercy, wisdom, and knowledge�and His unfathomable decisions and ways. These truths are reinforced by three rhetorical Old Testament questions. "Who has known the mind of the Lord?" stresses God's incomprehensible knowledge, which humans cannot fathom or inform. "Who became His counselor?" illustrates God's unsearchable wisdom, showing we cannot advise Him, especially during trials, as Job learned. "Who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to Him again?" emphasizes God's boundless grace, as humanity has earned only condemnation, making salvation a pure, unmerited gift received through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. The appropriate response to this profound revelation of God's glory in the gospel is humility, trust, and profound gratitude for His matchless grace.
The Glory of God in the Gospel - Part 2
Pastor Tom Pennington's sermon on Romans 11:33-36, "The Glory of God in the Gospel (Part 2)," highlights Paul's spontaneous doxology, emphasizing that the gospel reveals God's glory and demands our worship. This is evident in two ways. First, the gospel showcases God's inexhaustible attributes: His profound mercy, wisdom, and knowledge, which are both incomprehensible and limitless. Second, it reveals God's unfathomable decisions (judgments) and untraceable ways. God's "judgments" refer to His eternal decrees�His sovereign plans made before creation concerning everything that happens, which humans cannot fully fathom. His "ways" are the inscrutable paths He chooses to execute these decisions, often contrary to human expectation or understanding. Pennington illustrates this with biblical figures like Abraham, Joseph, Moses, and even Jesus, whose lives unfolded in ways that defy human logic, demonstrating God's untrackable footprints. Our appropriate response to such a God, whose attributes, decisions, and methods are so far beyond us, is exclamation, meditation, adoration, and crucially, submission. We are called to accept God's sovereign right to operate as He chooses, trusting His decisions and ways, rather than questioning them or attempting to devise our own path to Him.
The Ram, the Goat, and the Little Horn - Part 1
This sermon on Daniel 8 highlights prophecy as a fundamental apologetic for God's existence and sovereignty, illustrating how God declares "the end from the beginning" (Isaiah 46). Daniel 8, written in 550 BC, precisely foretells historical events over four centuries, including the rise of the Medo-Persian and Greek empires, compelling anti-supernaturalists to argue the text was written after the fact due to its accuracy. The vision depicts a two-horned ram symbolizing the Medo-Persian Empire, which is then swiftly conquered by a male goat with a conspicuous horn, representing Alexander the Great and the Greek Empire. Despite Alexander's immense power, he was "broken" by God, and his empire divided among four generals. This segment of Daniel, written in Hebrew, offers hope and assurance to God's people, promising their survival through future persecution. The text emphasizes several implications: God's absolute sovereignty over all history, down to minute details like naming Cyrus centuries in advance; the necessity for "durable discipleship" amidst worldly turbulence; the mortality and ultimate subservience of all powerful rulers to God; the inherent fragility of all earthly superpowers; and the singular truth that only King Jesus and God's unshakable kingdom endure eternally, prompting a call to repentance and faith.
The King of Beasts - Part 3
Daniel 7 is presented as a profound prophecy revealing God's sovereignty over human history, paralleling Daniel 2. The vision depicts four successive kingdoms as beasts: a lion (Babylon), a bear (Medo-Persia), a leopard (Greece), and a dreadful, terrifying fourth beast (Ancient Rome and its future restored manifestation). From this fourth kingdom, ten kings emerge, followed by a "little horn," identified as the Antichrist. This powerful, blasphemous ruler will subdue three kings and wage war against and overpower "the saints of the Highest One" for a period of "a time, times, and half a time," interpreted as three and a half years. However, the vision culminates with the Ancient of Days (God) convening a heavenly court to judge and destroy the Antichrist and his empire. Subsequently, "One like a Son of Man" (Jesus Christ) is presented before the Ancient of Days and given an everlasting, universal kingdom, which "the saints of the Highest One" will receive and possess forever. The sermon emphasizes the certainty of God's plan, the reality and increasing intensity of evil, and the ultimate security and comfort believers find in God's unwavering sovereignty, knowing that Christ will reign eternally.
The Glory of God in the Gospel - Part 1
This sermon, "Romans: The Glory of God in the Gospel (Part 1)," focuses on Paul's doxology in Romans 11:33-36, which concludes chapters 9-11. Pastor Tom Pennington emphasizes that many Christians, as noted by A.W. Pink and A.W. Tozer, hold a diminished or "too human" concept of God, which impedes true worship. This passage, however, is intended to profoundly elevate our understanding of God. Paul's rapturous praise flows from the gospel's revelation of God's inexhaustible and incomprehensible attributes. He exclaims "Oh, the depth!" describing three aspects: 1. **Riches (of Mercy and Grace)**: God's mercy, abundantly demonstrated through Christ's sacrifice, pardons sin and casts it into the "depths of the sea," satisfying divine justice and crediting believers with Christ's righteousness. 2. **Wisdom**: God's wisdom is evident in the eternal plan of redemption, the person of Jesus Christ, justification by faith, and the secure salvation of undeserving sinners. 3. **Knowledge**: God's omniscience (knowing all things actual and possible) underpins His perfectly wise decisions in conceiving and executing the plan of salvation.
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