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Messages by Desiring God

A Passion for Christ-Exalting Power

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

Christianity, Messages, Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Preaching, Desiring God, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, John Piper

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 1991

⏱️ 79 minutes

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First a word about sources.

0:04.0

They're almost out of these downstairs, but by what's left,

0:11.0

the two-volume biography is where I got everything I know about his life

0:18.0

by Ian Murray, Banner of Truth.

0:22.2

And then these three books are my three sources basically for what I'm going to say,

0:27.0

Revival, Crossway, Joy Unspeakable, and The Sovereign spirit, Harold Shaw publishers in this country.

0:36.3

If you want a 20-page outline of his life, five evangelical leaders by his grandson, real fun book to read about Stott and Lloyd Jones and Schaefer and Packer and Billy Graham,

0:50.0

little mini biographies. I hope you all have or will have preaching and preachers.

0:55.0

I'm Martin Lloyd Jones. I just dipped into here for a few quotes that that seemed to me crucial.

1:00.0

And this is the Bible, which is in everything.

1:07.0

In preaching, preachers Martin Lloyd Jones wrote,

1:17.0

preaching has been my life's work.

1:20.0

To me, the work of preaching is the highest and the greatest and the most glorious calling

1:28.1

to which anyone can ever be called.

1:31.9

And even as I read it again, it makes tingles go up and down my back because

1:36.1

God has been privileged to call me to preach. I can't get over the awesome privilege of having been called by the living God to herald his truth.

1:47.0

Many called him the last of the Calvinistic Methodist preachers because he had Calvin's love for truth and sound

1:57.8

reformed doctrine.

1:59.6

He was thoroughly Calvinistic and reformed and on the other side fire and passion.

2:07.0

For 30 years he preached at the Westminster Chapel in London.

2:13.0

Usually that meant three times on a weekend, Friday evening, Sunday morning and Sunday

2:20.0

evening.

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