THE GLORY OF GOD: The Purpose of Creation, the Nature of True Holiness, and the Highest Good of Man - Softcover

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Why is there a world at all?

Scripture answers plainly: God made all things for His glory. Most Christians will say they believe it. Far fewer could say what it actually means — or what difference it makes to an ordinary Tuesday.

THE GLORY OF GOD takes that one sentence and follows it all the way down. What is the glory of God? How can a God who lacks nothing be said to seek anything? What kind of heart agrees with such a purpose? And where does a creature made for God finally find his own good?

Three questions — the purpose of creation, the nature of true holiness, and the highest good of man — are usually filed in three separate places: the doctrine of creation, the doctrine of sanctification, and the doctrine of last things. Scripture does not keep them so far apart. This book makes the case that they belong to one reality, and that each is distorted when it is pulled away from the other two.

"A God who made you because He needed the company would have to go on needing it, and you would have to go on supplying it. The God who made you out of His own fullness will not run out."

What you will find inside

• An answer to the hardest objection. A full chapter faces the question many readers feel immediately: Is God selfish?
• A sustained reading of Scripture. One chapter stays inside Isaiah 40–48 and lets God give His own reasons, in His own words, to a people in real trouble.
• Sin traced to its root. Why moral effort, discipline, and religion can genuinely reform conduct and still never reorder what the heart loves most.
• Christ at the center of the restoration. Reconciliation, the necessity of the new birth, and the slow growth of holiness — not detours from the glory of God, but the same great purpose brought to bear on the human heart.
• A God-centered book that never turns the creature into scenery. God's glory and the creature's good are not competing claims, because God Himself is the highest good of the people He redeems.

Written for the church, not the academy

Twenty-seven chapters in six parts, each opening with a single Central Truth so the central point is clear from the beginning. Scripture quotations from the NASB. A complete Scripture index and a plain-English glossary at the back. No technical training required — every specialized word is explained where it first appears.

Ideal for pastors and teachers, church leaders, theology students, and serious readers in the Reformed and evangelical tradition who want theology that is exact without being cold.

If you have ever suspected that the purpose of your life is larger than your life, this book will show you how much larger — and why that is the best news a creature can hear.

A Kerux Study Series title from Reid Kerux Press.

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