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God is so big that to dwell on his immensity long enough could lead one into terror.
a small ant pile in the middle of the Sahara.
break or explode or melt into a puddle at the very subsuming presence of the perfect radiance of God.
The real test of being in the presence of God is that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.
We are plankton shaking a microscopic fist at a killer whale.
We did not have the gospel wrong, really. We just had it shallow.
the gospel is the ABCs of salvation. But it is also the A to Z.
Similarly, we evangelicals love the gospel for the few of its uses we’re aware of, and we end up missing its depths.
The further into the gospel we go, then, the bigger it gets. There is no way for us to wear it out.
When we miss the depths of the gospel, we hinder our worship.
the resurrection of the glorified Jesus activates the future resurrection of all believers (vv. 21–23).
As the whole tree is in the acorn, then, so blossoming glories are in the gospel of “Christ crucified.”
earthly ministry inaugurates the kingdom of God by announcing that he is at work to reverse this entire curse! By declaring his own sinless kingship, he is proclaiming that he will personally redeem what Adam (and we) personally cursed. By casting out demons, he is demonstrating that the spiritual forces of wickedness that reign over the cursed earth are being overthrown and conquered. By performing miracles, he is providing signposts to the kingdom’s consummation, offering glimpses of the day in the age to come when there will be no sickness, no death, no deformity, and no lack. By teaching
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What we are seeing is that not a bit of God’s God-ness is held back from doing what must be done to forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
The gospel’s saving work is deep work. It is deep tissue massage, spiritual reparative therapy, and radical reconstructive surgery.
Uneducated men with stuttering tongues and unclever speech set the world on fire because they were content to simply arrange the wood and trust the torch of the gospel to do its thing.
If his plan is that the earth be covered with the knowledge of his glory like the waters cover the sea (Hab. 2:14), this means we need a glory-drenched vision of the places around us.
