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Messages by Desiring God

For Judgment I Came into This World

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2011

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Sin blinds us all. We can only stumble about in darkness until Jesus takes us by the hand, and leads us into his heavenly light.

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Before I pray, I thought it would be helpful to take three or four minutes to give you an update on the Antioch moment.

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You may remember that on April 9,

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I spoke about this moment in the 140 year history of our church as an Antioch moment taken

0:30.5

from Acts 13 where we have some really crucial decisions to make,

0:36.0

and the three that I mentioned were succession,

0:40.0

that is, when do I move over from this pulpit to say BCS teaching and writing and

0:50.7

mentoring and speaking full-time and somebody else becomes the pastor for

0:56.6

preaching and vision that's one issue our second one would be what would the

1:00.7

structure of the church be longer term?

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Do we go to three churches instead of one church on three campuses?

1:08.3

That was the second issue and the third was funding.

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We have a South site waiting, Lord willing, to be purchased and built upon and

1:16.8

some debt left over from building the North campus, how do we move forward to there?

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Those are the three things.

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And so we call the elders to pray every Thursday morning

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for six weeks.

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And what happened was interesting,

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or let's say what is happening is interesting.

1:35.0

We sought clarity on those three things and the Lord brought us clarity on three different things.

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It's very like the Lord that when you get on your face before him asking for what you think you need most.

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So let me tell you what those new things are

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