God’s name and God’s glory are so tightly wound up with God’s sovereignty that an attack on God’s sovereignty is an attack on God’s name and glory. The theme of Scripture is the pursuit of God for the glory of His name as demonstrated by His absolute sovereignty. Even in the complex of Redemptive events fully flowered in the death, resurrection, ascension, and session of our Lord Christ what is front and center is the pursuit of God in glorifying His name as demonstrated by His absolute sovereignty. Even in the salvation and judgment of man and men the center is not man but God pursuing the glorification of His name via the demonstration of His Sovereignty. The Justification of man thus is not the teleological end of God’s doing. No, the teleological end of our Justification is our entering into God’s pursuit to glorify God’s name by living and defending the Sovereignty of God in all He does.
As this is true the Biblical Christian is the most formidable of all opponents because when he arises to speak, he arises at that same time to promote the name and glory of the Sovereign God he is bound to by the strongest cords of tender gratitude. Cords of tender gratitude because being convinced of his own sin his heart is full of gratitude towards the God who promoted His glory and name by sovereignly saving him despite who he knows himself to be.
The Sovereignty of God … no hope without it.
