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ÒLet God be magnified!Ó Psalm
70:4 Let
every ransomed soul join our blessed Redeemer in this prayer: — ÒFather,
glorify thy name.Ó In this Psalm we have
a prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ. Having done the FatherÕs will and put away
our sins, the Lord Jesus Christ prays that all of GodÕs children would follow
his example and say continually, ÒLet God be magnified.Ó This
is distinctly the language of men and women who have been saved by the grace
of God. Notice how they are described. They seek the Lord. Feeling their need
of him, they seek him by faith in Christ. We seek the mercy of God in Christ
for pardon, righteousness, fellowship, honor, glory, and immortality. Seeking
God in Christ, the believer finds salvation and life in him. GodÕs children
are glad in him. We rejoice in who he is, and what he has done, and what he
is doing for us. Being saved by the triune God, by the sovereign will of the
Father, the effectual, sin-atoning blood of the Son, and the omnipotent,
irresistible grace of the Holy Ghost, all GodÕs elect love his salvation. We
love the gospel of substitution. We love him who is our Substitute. Once
more, the Psalm characterizes GodÕs children as those who seek his glory.
They say continually, ÒLet God be magnified.Ó When
we cry from our souls and say to one another, ÒLet God be magnified,Ó we are expressing the desire of our hearts that
our great God be honored in and by all things. Our Savior taught us to pray,
ÒOur Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.Ó That is the desire of every heaven-born soul. We
want to magnify God in the thoughts of our hearts and in our actions and
attitudes before men. The paramount desire of our souls is that our God and
Savior be magnified. As individuals and collectively as the Church of the living
God, let us say continually, ÒLet God be magnified.Ó No one is
worthy of honor, glory, and majesty but our great God; and the triune God is
magnified when Christ is magnified. No one is worthy of honor, glory, and
majesty but Christ our Savior. He loved us. He redeemed us. He preserves us.
He will bring us to glory. We use this saying, ÒLet God be magnified,Ó with confidence, because we know that the Lord
our God will be magnified in all things and by all things (Romans 11:33-36). Don Fortner Listen to sermons
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