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Messages by Desiring God

Don't Waste Your Life

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2011

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

God owns us and has determined what the unwasted life is: living and acting in such a way that displays the supreme value of Christ.

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Thank you, Bruce, and thank you Colin for that ministry, and thank you all for being here. I would love to in view of what

0:19.8

he just said take a little survey here and see if I can see your hands if you're

0:23.8

40 or younger raise your hand. Okay so I will I will talk about that. Thanks. I mean I wouldn't mind if those lights stayed up

0:36.6

if it doesn't affect anything else, but if it's bad for the video you can do what you need to do.

0:47.8

Let me pray and ask for God's help for all of us as we move into this. Father in heaven I plead with you that none in this room would waste his life. We have one life.

1:03.0

It is rushing away.

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And we can't do it over again ever.

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One life.

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And I plead with you that none will waste it.

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Teach us tonight from your word what the unwasted life is and then

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bind it to our hearts so that we live it. We want to see Christ magnified in Brisbane and

1:39.2

beyond in this land and around the world. We want to be so set on fire as a church that we

1:47.9

penetrate the unreached peoples of the world where they don't have anyone telling them about the

1:56.8

unwaisted life. And so God we are asking for remarkable things.

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Some people have walked into this room

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and will walk out new creations in Christ.

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Others have walked in and will walk out with a wholly new direction for their life.

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And that's what you do. It's not what I do.

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And so I ask that you would prepare them right now

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to be spoken to by the Holy Spirit.

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