On Sunday I listened to one of our worship pastors, Matt Papa, preach a fantastic message on how our sight of the glory of God is what ultimately changes us. Using 2 Corinthians 3:18 as a backdrop Matt explained that we are transformed from glory to glory as we behold God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ. ‘Worship,’ he said, ‘is a rhythm of revelation and response. We see the magnificence of the love that God has for us, the glory revealed in the cross. And that moves us to worship him’ (1 John 4:19).
Matt concluded with this quote from A.w. Tozer:
“I think it would be a wonderful thing if every preacher in America would begin to preach about God and nothing else for one solid year. Just one solid year to preach about God. Who He is, His attributes, His perfections, His being, the kind of God He is, why we dare to trust Him, why we can trust Him, why we should trust Him, why we can love Him, why we should love Him, why we dare not fall short. And keep on preaching on God, the triune God, and keep on until God fills the whole horizon and the whole world. Faith would spring up like grass by the watercourses. Then let a man get up and preach a promise and the whole congregation would say, ‘I can trust that promise; look who made it.’”
That reminded me of D. Martyn Lloyed Jones’ statement about preaching which I often quote:
“The goal of preaching is not instruction or application but the goal of preaching is worship.”
