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Messages by Desiring God

God Is the Gospel, Session 3

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2006

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

All the benefits of the gospel come together in the highest good we can imagine: God brings us to joy in himself and keeps us forever safe in him.

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The following message is by Pastor John Piper.

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More information from Desiring God is available at

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W.W.

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D. Desiring God.

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O. R. G.

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Let's pray.

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Father in Heaven, thank you so much for

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Christ and his suffering.

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And his triumphant reservation. and his

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intersection on our behalf at your right hand and for the

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on our behalf at your right hand

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and for the promise of his coming.

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Hasten the day.

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We would love to see it wrapped up.

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Now help me, I pray to be faithful to your word especially to the word of the

0:46.7

cross in this session I ask in Jesus name

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amen in Jesus' name, Amen. So here we are now at Bullet Number 17, which is a very big bullet.

1:03.7

We finally arrived, and maybe I shouldn't have put it off this long, but here we are, at the central

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issue of what is traditionally, biblically described as the gospel,

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gospel statements. It's very controversial to say God is the gospel. That sentence is not in the Bible.

1:27.0

And I'm aware of that. And the places where the word gospel is used don't talk like that.

1:38.0

And so it's a judgment call on my part that that sort of risk needs to be taken in order to rescue the

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