Words of Glory - Week 3
Part 3: The One Who Knows
If you were scheduled for brain surgery, would you try to tell the surgeon how to do his job? Yet we try to micromanage God, who has an infinitely larger, more complex responsibility, and infinitely more knowledge. This doxology comes after a difficult section of a theologically dense book. It’s Paul’s way of saying, “God has figured out how to do the impossible, saving both Jews and Gentiles. He can handle whatever you are worried about.”
Let’s get caught up in the praise that never ends in the courts of Heaven. Jesus is worth every bit of…
He redeemed us with His blood. He made us priests of God. He is coming back, and every…
To a congregation who were experiencing some conflict, Paul quoted this ancient hymn about how Jesus…
The book of Jude is a stern warning against the false teaching that often infiltrates the Church. Jude knows some Christians might worry that…
Paul writes to Timothy, who is trying to lead a church in Ephesus, a center of pagan worship. He wants his…
If you were scheduled for brain surgery, would you try to tell the surgeon how to do his job? Yet we try to micromanage God, who has an…
God is greater than any human adjective can describe, so sometimes His people have to multiply their adjectives. In this doxology, Paul wants us to know that…
Every so often in Scripture, characters or writers interrupt themselves to talk about how great God is. We call these passages “doxologies.” The word comes from…