Oct
23
2009
What Can be a Greater Honor Than This?
How great an honor will it be to a person to have God at the day of judgment owning a person, declaring before all men, angels and devils that that person is before his all-seeing eyes and that he stands innocent and perfect in his sight, clothed with perfect righteousness and entitled to everlasting glory and blessedness. How honorable will this render them in the eyes of all that vast assembly that will be together at the day of judgment. That will be an infinitely greater honor than any man or any angel declaring that they judge him upright and sincere and that eternal life belongs to him. What can be a greater honor than this — to be owned by the great King and Lord of all things?
Jonathan Edwards, The Glory and Honor of God, edited by Michael D. McMullen, page 61.
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[...] From the Gospel Coalition [...]
The GOOD NEWS of Jesus Christ, with its gift of “streams of life-giving water” pouring out from the pierced side of Jesus into the heart of whoever believes in him, here and now, bears by far a greater honor than “another gospel” with a promise of a pie in the sky (John 4: 10-14; 7: 37-39; 19: 30-37). AMEN!
Undeservedly owned by the only One Who is Pre-eminent, the only One Who really matters, both now and in all eternity. Wow!