God Is the Gospel, Session 2

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

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🗓️ 21 October 2006

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The greatest gift of the gospel isn’t what God gives to us but who he is to us. Only when we receive him as our highest treasure will we truly know the beauty of all Jesus Christ has accomplished.

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0:00.0	The following message is by pastor John Piper.
0:04.0	More information from Desiring God is available at
0:07.0	W.W.
0:09.0	Desiring God.
0:11.0	O. R. G.
0:12.0	Let me pray. God dot O'R G.
0:15.0	Let me pray.
0:21.0	Whom have we in heaven but you, O Lord, and on Earth there's nothing that we desire besides you,
0:27.0	then in everything that we desire, we would be desiring you. He loves thee too little who loves anything
0:41.4	together with thee,
0:44.0	which he loves not for thy sake.
0:49.0	That's a mystery, Lord.
0:52.0	How you can be everything to us.
0:58.0	In all the people we love, in all the recreation we love, in all the food we love,
1:05.0	in all the art and music that we love,
1:10.0	in all the Bible that we love, we don't have to be idolaters. We dare not be idolaters.
1:17.0	So would you work this miracle, Lord, of so permeating all of our loves with a delight in
1:30.6	you, an affection for you, and a thanks to to you and a treasuring of you so that you have
1:36.1	no competitors in our life.
1:40.4	That's the mystery and the miracle that we are after in these days.
1:45.0	So I ask for it now.
1:48.0	Make me an instrument to perform that miracle in people's hearts. I pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
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