Do Answered Prayers Depend on My Holiness?

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

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🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Throughout Scripture, God warns that he will not hear the prayers of the disobedient. So do answered prayers depend on our holiness?

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0:00.0	The Bible is very clear on a point we address today, and it's this one.
0:09.3	For our prayers to be answered, we must be obedient to God.
0:15.5	That's right.
0:16.5	For our prayers to be answered, we must obey.
0:19.7	The point is blunt and pervasive, and you can find it all over the Bible in texts like
0:24.1	Isaiah 1, verses 15 to 18, or John 15, 7, or 1 John 3, 21 to 23, or 1 Peter 3, 7, or
0:32.2	1 Peter 3, 12, 1 Peter 4, 7, James 5, 16, and on and on.
0:38.4	Okay then.
0:39.4	So how holy must I become in order for my prayers to get answered?
0:43.2	If you're paying attention to your Bible, this is a legitimate question, and one pastor
0:46.8	John took up an assurment over 40 years ago.
0:50.2	There he is to explain and to add two more texts into the mix that I didn't even mention.
0:57.2	God said to Solomon, if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and seek
1:07.2	my face and pray and turn from their evil ways.
1:14.8	I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and heal their land, 2 Chronicles
1:25.7	7, 14.
1:27.7	And the Psalmist confirmed it in his own experience, Psalm 66, 17.
1:33.9	I cried aloud to God and he was extolled with my tongue.
1:38.5	If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
1:44.6	But truly God has listened.
1:46.8	He has given heed to the voice of my prayer.
1:50.6	Therefore, I find it taught in the New Testament and the Old Testament that if a child has
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