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Messages by Desiring God

Future Grace for Finishing the Task

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2000

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The goal of the Christian life is to be so satisfied in knowing Jesus that the fleeting pleasures of this world fade away as we give and give and give for God’s glory.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, many thanks to all of you for being so generous and your giving attention to the Word and being here.

0:09.5

And thank you to Jerry Rankin for the invitation.

0:12.5

It's been no sacrifice, believe me, to be here.

0:14.8

I'm a Christian hedonist.

0:16.0

I only do what makes me happy.

0:19.8

And this has been no exception.

0:22.5

And so thank you.

0:24.5

It's been very rich and very moving.

0:27.3

You have ministered to me in more ways than you know, and I thank you for it.

0:33.8

A special word of thanks to the worship team.

0:37.0

I go places, and it isn't always the case that I'm able to worship in worship.

0:47.2

That is, I like to view what I do when I speak as worship.

0:52.0

I call it expository exultation.

0:55.7

So I'm just exulting over the word, and you can join me if you want, you know.

1:01.7

But it really helps me to do that out of sung worship.

1:08.6

So word worship follows sung worship. I don't ever divide my services up into

1:14.6

worship and teaching or worship and preaching. Preaching is worship. And at least try. I'm

1:22.5

worshiping whether you are or not. And so we're going to go to the word one more time together, and we do it with hearts just

1:31.0

brimming with gratitude this morning.

1:33.1

And there's good news here in Hebrews this morning for us.

1:36.9

So let's ask him to open our eyes and thank him for what he's shown us.

1:45.2

So, Father, now one more time, we want to go to your word and bathe in it and rest in it,

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