The following message is by pastor John Piper.

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Desiring God.

O.G. I love to be around. God.

I love to be around people that I can smell have a heart to submit to the Bible. Have a heart to submit to the Bible.

You can tell. You can tell.

Are they suspicious of it?

Do you read it and they say,

but, but, but, but but their first response is not oh but but but but but but

some people are are just deeply under the Bible as their authority and others they play with the

Bible they they are governed by what they have inherited and not by scriptures. Now that

doesn't settle what the Bible teaches. It doesn't make it any easier. In fact, it makes it harder because you want desperately to submit to what's really there and not just make up your own ideas, but I am what I am about these matters because I see them in the

Bible. If I see 10,000 brilliant PhD saying one thing and the Bible is and the Bible is saying another thing,

the Bible gets my vote.

That's the way I'm going to be.

And there's a simple way of saying the reason for it namely the Bible has lasted for 2,000 years

plus and has stood against attack after attack after attack and has made it from

generation to generation so that's

it's vote is superior to 10,000 brilliant people who will be here today and gone tomorrow.

And one of the great things about being 62,

that's me, is that you've seen a lot of things come and go. Dr Harrison at Fuller used to say it was so wise I didn't realize how wise at the time he said

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