Desiring God (Session 1)

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Desiring God

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

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🗓️ 29 April 2011

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

People see God’s exaltation and communication of his own glory as a problem, but the Bible doesn’t. The most loving thing God can do is to show us his glory.

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0:00.0	This message is brought to you by Desiring God.
0:03.0	For more information, please visit desiring God.org.
0:08.0	Good evening everybody.
0:10.0	And welcome to Saddleback. My name is Rick and I love Jesus with all my heart.
0:19.0	And if he never did anything else for me, I owe him the rest of my life.
0:27.8	We have been looking forward to hosting this Desireing God Conference for a long, long time. It is our privilege to have the team here
0:36.6	and I'm not going to spend a lot of time because we know who we came to here and we also
0:41.6	know who we came to honor Jesus Christ.
0:45.0	You know, the Bible says this in Hebrew 13,
0:50.0	it says, remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you.
0:59.0	Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. That's Hebrew 1370.
1:11.0	Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God unto you, consider the outcome of their way
1:16.2	of life and imitate their faith.
1:18.6	Now in that one verse, you have all you need to know about leadership.
1:24.0	If you're going to be a leader in ministry,
1:28.0	you must have a message worth remembering,
1:31.0	a lifestyle worth remembering, a lifestyle worth considering, and a faith worth imitating.
1:37.8	I didn't say that.
1:39.4	God did.
1:41.2	Consider your leaders. Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God and you. You must have a message worth
1:48.6	remembering. Consider the outcome of their way of life. You must have a lifestyle worth considering.
1:56.5	If people can't follow your model, you're not a leader.
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