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The sermon presents the triune God as the sole rightful recipient of worship, glory, confidence, and greatness. It strongly emphasizes divine justice: sinners cannot be forgiven through good works or human intermediaries, but must be cleared through Jesus Christ’s atoning work. For believers, God’s greatness supplies comfort in suffering, boldness in prayer, strength for difficult callings, and hope for church revival. The sermon’s practical vision is activist and mission-oriented: Christians should attempt great things for the gospel while attributing every success to God rather than human instruments.
Theological center: The one triune God is supremely great, and Jesus Christ is the fully divine and sufficient mediator whose atoning work alone saves sinners.
Applications: Ascribe greatness to God alone · Trust Christ for salvation · The triune God is supremely great · Christ is the sufficient mediator
Primary texts: Deuteronomy 32:3 · 1 Timothy 2:5 · Psalm 81:10
“Ascribe ye greatness unto our God.” Deuteronomy 32:3 OUR God is one God. He is none other than the infinite JEHOVAH, who of old spoke unto His people, and revealed Himself by that marvelous incommunicable name—the name JEHOVAH! And yet though He is one God, we are taught in Scripture that He is one God in three most glorious persons. While we rightly believe in the unity of the Godhead, and are so far Unitarians, we believe there are three persons in one God, and thus we are Trinitarian Unitarians. We believe that the Father is God, and we ascribe unto Him greatness, for we believe that He made the world and settled the pillars thereof; that He fashioned the universe, and that He moves the starry orbs through space. We look up to the wondrous depths of a shoreless night, and we see the starry fleet sailing along, and we believe that God is their Captain. We look further still, and as by the aid of science we discover the void illimitable, we believe that God dwells there, and is the infinite Creator and preserver of all things that exist and subsist. We ascribe greatness unto Him, the Creator and the Protector of the world. We equally believe that Jesus Christ, who was one incarnate in the flesh, is very God of very God. We conceive the work of our redemption to be as divine a work as that of creation. We consider that the miracles He did partly furnish us with the abundant proofs that He must have been none other than God. We behold Him rising by His own might from the tomb. We see Him standing at the right hand of God, making intercession for us. We expect with joy His second coming. We look forward to the day of judgment, wherein He shall hold the great Assize of nations. And for these reasons, believing Him to be God, we ascribe greatness unto Jesus Christ, the Surety of the better covenant. And as for the Holy Spirit, believing that the work of conversion is as great as even that of redemption, or creation, we believe Him to be the everlasting God. We see Him so described in Scripture that we dare not speak of Him as an influence, as a new emanation from the Deity, but we conceive Him to be a person as very God of very God, as is the Father, so is the Son. We solemnly subscribe to the creed of St. Athanasius, that though there are not three Gods, but one God, yet, there are three persons in the glorious Trinity in unity of the everlasting JEHOVAH, unto whom belong the shouts of the universe, the songs of angels, and the ascription of our united praise. Our God, then, is to be understood as Father, Son, Holy Ghost! one God whom we adore—and the wor…