This week's sermon: "How Much Does God Love This Church?"

The Bible is packed with stunning displays of God's love for his people. But strangely to many hearts, God reminds his dearly loved people again and again that he loves them for his own sake.

Why this continual reminder? Does this, in the end, spoil his seemingly great love for us?

Not in the least. In fact, such a reminder is a manifestation of how exceedingly great is God’s love for his people. He loves them too much to let them be content with having self as the bottom, or deepest foundation, of their soul’s delight. God does make much of us, but he loves us more than to merely make much of us for our own sakes. It is greater love to make much of us for his sake, for his glory.

Make no mistake about it, we are precious to God—so precious that he will not have us make that preciousness into our god, but he continually reminds us to have our Savior, not ourselves, as our deepest joy. Even our glorified finite selves will not eternally satisfy, but forever will our infinitely glorious Savior make us supremely happy.