I just began reading Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ by John Piper. In the first chapter, entitled "Seeing and Savoring the Glory of God," Piper presents the ultimate aim of Jesus: "What was the most loving thing Jesus could do for us? What was the endpoint, the highest good, of the Gospel? Redemption? Forgiveness? Justification? Reconciliation? Sanctification? Adoption? Are not all of these great wonders simply means to something greater? Something final? Something that Jesus asked his Father to give us? 'Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me.' (John 17:24) The Christian Gospel is 'the gospel of the glory of Christ' because its final aim is that we would see and savor and show the glory of Christ." (p. 16)
"For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." II Cor. 4:6
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