God is the Hero of the Bible

How do we know that God is the hero of the Bible? Here are examples of God acting for His own renown:

  • For the sake of his name, God did not destroy Israel in the desert (Ezekiel 20:5-9).
  • Pharaoh’s heart was hardened for the glory of God (Exodus 14:4, 18).
  • The beginning of the Israeli monarchy was about the glory of God (1 Samuel 12:19-23).
  • Solomon dedicated the temple for the glory of God (1 Kings 8).
  • Israel became great and powerful among the nations because God was “making himself a name” (2 Samuel 7:23).
  • God did not destroy Israel when it deserved to be destroyed, because he did not want his name blasphemed among the nations (Isaiah 48:9-11).
  • God decided to destroy the Israelites because they would not lay it in their heart to give glory to his name (Malachi 2:2).
  • Jesus’ life and ministry was about the glory of God (John 7:18;  17:4).
  • The cross of Jesus is about the glory of God (John 12:27-28).
  • You and I are saved to the praise of his glorious grace (Ephesians 1:3-6).
  • The Christian life is about the reflection of the glory of God off of our lives into the universe (Matthew 5:16; 1 Corinthians 10:31; 1 Peter 4:11).
  • The second coming is about the consummation of the glory of God (2 Thessalonians 1:9-10).
  • The consummation of all things is that God might be praised (Revelation 21:23).

The Bible screams it from every hilltop and rooftop and into every crook and crevice! The glory of God is God’s vision and his plan for seeing it fulfilled. Habakkuk 2:14 promises that “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.” The supremacy of God’s glory is everywhere in the Bible because God’s plan is for his glory to be supreme everywhere in the world.

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