“Today we start into one of the most amazing sentences that's ever been written. And I did say sentence, not paragraph. It's a sentence.

We'll find that God's working out his gracious plan on behalf of his people calls for a life of glorious praise. God has graciously blessed us with so many blessings, but we're prone to forget them and to instead focus on our circumstances and focus on the difficult realities of life in the world. And there are plenty of those.

And when our eyes are on our circumstances, we miss the deeper things that God is doing, the truths that God has done and that God is doing now. In this, what we have before us today is a 202-word sentence.

Verses three through fourteen is all one very long sentence. And this sentence seeks to rightly focus us on the grace and the goodness of God by praising different facets of God's saving purpose, and it starts from eternity past, and it goes all the way into eternity future.”

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