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Ask Pastor John

Christ Reigns over Every Inch

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

Christianity, Pastor, John Piper, Theology, Ask, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Desiring God, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.94.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2014

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Know the glories and beauties of Christ who reigns supreme over kings and tyrants, over mountains and hurricanes, over time and death.

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There's really nothing more glorious than to know that Christ reigns over my life.

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He reigns over this world.

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He reigns over the cosmos, over every creature, and over every power in creation.

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So much of the Christian life is rediscovering and re-savoring this fundamental truth that

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everything hangs on Jesus.

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In his conference message Sex and the Supremacy of Christ, part 2, delivered on September

0:28.8

26, 2004, Pastor John reiterates this point with the proper rhetorical flair.

0:35.0

Here's a clip of what he said.

0:37.8

My prayer is that you will know that you will press on to know the supremacy of Christ,

0:48.2

the supremacy of his deity, equal with God, the Father, and all of his attributes,

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the radiance of his glory and the exact image of his nature, the supremacy of his eternality

1:03.5

that makes the mind want to explode with the imponderable thought that Jesus Christ

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never had a beginning.

1:16.0

He is simply there, absolute reality with which we reckon.

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We must rise to the supremacy of his eternality, while all the universe, including this building

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in your body and this earth and all the galaxies, are fragile, contingent like a shadow in comparison

1:41.8

to the substance of Jesus Christ.

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We must know the supremacy of his never-changing constancy, oh, to have virtues that never

1:54.1

change a character whose commitment is constant yesterday, today, and forever, let us know

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the supremacy of his constancy and let us know the supremacy of his knowledge that makes

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the library of Congress look like a match box and makes all the information on the internet

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look like a 1940s farmer's almanac and makes all of quantum physics and everything that

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