Soli Deo Gloria 5

All Together Now

  1. All of the gospel
  • Sola Scriptura/Scripture Alone

William Tyndale

Good, merry and joyful tidings, that maketh a man’s heart glad and maketh him sing, dance, and leap for joy.

I defy the Pope and all his laws! …If God spares my life ere many years, I will cause a boy that driveth the plow shall know more of the Scripture than thou dost!

Lord, open the King of England’s eyes!

  • Sola Fide/Faith Alone
  • Sola Gratia/Grace Alone
  • Solus Christus/Christ Alone
  • Soli Deo Gloria/Glory to God Alone

What have you learnt from the series? What has helped you?

  1. All of life
  1. Status

Romans 12:1-3

Martin Luther

We are priests as he is Priest, sons as he is Son, kings as he is King.

1 Peter 2:5

you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,To the church of God in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia:

1 Corinthians 10:31

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

Martin Luther

The inner man, who by faith is created in the image of God, is both joyful and happy because of Christ, in whom so many benefits are conferred upon him; and therefore it is his one occupation to serve God joyfully and without thought of gain, in love that is not constrained.

God, with all his angels and creatures, is smiling—not because that father is washing diapers, but because he is doing so in Christian faith.

  1. Marriage

1 Timothy 4:1-5

Nuns in Barrels

Katarina von Bora

  1. Work

Colossians 3:23

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men

Ephesians 2:10

For we are God's workmanship,createdin Christ Jesus to do good works,which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Martin Luther

Therefore I advise no one to enter any religious order or the priesthood, indeed, I advise everyone against it - unless he is forearmed with this knowledge and understands that the works of monks and priests, however holy and arduous they may be, do not differ one whit in the sight of God from the works of the rustic labourer in the field or the woman going about her household tasks, but that all works are measured before God by faith alone.

C S Lewis

Most men must glorify God by doing to His glory something which is not per se an act of glorifying but which becomes so by being offered. If, as I now hope, cultural activities are innocent and even useful, then they also (like the sweeping of the room in Herbert’s poem) can be done to the Lord. The work of a charwoman and the work of a poet become spiritual in the same way and on the same condition.

The Elixir (1633)
George Herbert

Teach me, my God and King,
In all things thee to see,
And what I do in any thing,
To do it as for thee:
Not rudely, as a beast,
To runne into an action;
But still to make thee prepossest,
And give it his perfection.
A man that looks on glasse,
On it may stay his eye;
Or if he pleaseth, through it passe,
And then the heav’n espie.
All may of thee partake:
Nothing can be so mean,
Which with his tincture (for thy sake)
Will not grow bright and clean.
A servant with this clause
Makes drudgerie divine:
Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws,
Makes that and th’ action fine.
This is the famous stone
That turneth all to gold:
For that which God doth touch and own
Cannot for lesse be told.

1 Corinthians 10:31

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

What sacrifices are we called to make?

Romans 12:1-2

Philippians 4:18

Hebrews 13:15-16

Mark 8:34-35

How can you bring God glory at work or in the home?

How can you glorify God:

Right now…this evening…

Tomorrow morning…tomorrow afternoon…

Luther

What seem to be secular works are actually the praise of God and represent an obedience which is well pleasing to him.

[Housework has] no obvious appearance of holiness, yet those very household chores are more to be valued than all the works of monks and nuns.

  1. All of history

Richard Baxter

The writing of Church-history is the duty of all ages, because God’s works are to be known, as well as his Word.

Caleb Evans

Every Christian ought to be a good historian.

The History War

  • Daniel 2; Mark 4:26-32; Matthew 13:33; 28:18-20.
  • Ephesians 1:10-11
  • Matthew 16:18
  • Colossians 1:16, 18

Pascal

How fine it is to see, with the eyes of faith, Darius and Cyrus, Alexander, the Romans, Pompey and Herod working, without knowing it, for the glory of Christ.

How has your thinking about history changed?

Ecclesia semper reformanda est

Jodocus van Lodenstein

Why do we need to keep the Reformation going?

Where do we need Reformation today?

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Question: What is the chief end of man?
Answer: Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.

John Calvin

It will not suffice simply to hold that there is One whom all ought to honor and adore, unless we are also persuaded that he is the fountain of every good, and that we must seek nothing elsewhere than in him... For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by his fatherly care, that he is the Author of their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond him—they will never yield him willing service. Nay, unless they establish their complete happiness in him, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.

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