Ephesians 1-3

Glory to God Alone Sermon (Isaiah 42:8 launch verse)
- Isaiah 42:8, “I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.” o What do we mean by glorifying God or giving him glory?
 Not making him bigger, making him beautiful
 It means displaying his bigness, showing his beauty
• We are telescopes not microscopes
- So the question is why the Sola’s o Why Faith in Christ alone o Why Scripture Alone o Why grace Alone o Why Christ Alone
 Answer: So that through the grace of God alone acquired by Christ alone, applied to underserving sinners by faith alone in that work, as revealed in the Scriptures Alone, God might be glorified
• To put it another way: God is glorified in the saving of sinners when He alone is the cause of that …show more content…
o Purity of worship was one of the major passions of the reformation
 The reofrmers understood man’s troubled