Exalting God for His Glory — E.A. Johnston

A Shrunken View of God

We live in a day friends where the church has shrunken God down to the size of man. I never forget the Baptist pastor who made the following comment. He said I can't wait to get to heaven to see Jesus and shake his hand for all He's done for me.

John’s Encounter with the Risen Christ

I guess this seminary trained pastor wasn't familiar with the text in Revelation where the Apostle John encounters the risen Christ and falls down as dead. No, he's just gonna walk up to Jesus and shake his hand like he would greet a deacon at church on Sunday.

Jeremiah’s Warning and the Call to Exalt God

The church today friends serves a shrunken God with a diluted gospel and we can say with Jeremiah the prophet. The harvest is past the summer is ended and we are not saved. But rather we should be exalting God for his glory.

Isaiah’s High and Holy Vision of God

When I read my Bible, I see an exalted God and his servants who were jealous for his glory. I see an exalted view of God in Isaiah 57 15 which declares. For thus sayeth the high and lofty one that inhabited the eternity.

Elijah’s Jealousy for God’s Glory

Whose name is holy. I dwell in the high and holy place. And I see God's servants Fighting for the glory of God. In the pages of my Bible God visits the fleeing prophet Elijah in a cave by asking What doest thou hear Elijah?

And he said I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts. Now friends we have to Ask ourselves. Are we preaching an exalted view of God? And are we jealous for God and are we exalting God for his glory?

George Whitefield’s Exalted Preaching

It was said of George Whitefield. He could get a Congregation of thousands any time of day or night. He could get them and hold them in snow Sleet frost or rain. It did not matter what the conditions were.

Well, why was that. It was because Whitfield preached an exalted view of God. Whitfield was so full of God. When he spoke his hearer sensed this exalted view of God. Listened to his journal entry in 1740 while in America preaching in New York a sense of God's goodness.

Whitefield’s Words and the Call to Make God Central

Overwhelmed me a little boy was much concerned on the pulpit stairs. One of my friends asked him why he cried. Who can help it? He said mr. Whitfield's words cut me to the heart. But we have no Whitfield among us today friends.

But we can still preach up Whitfield's God. Exalting God for his glory should be our chief aim. Let us pray.