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God Made the World for Worship: His Glory in Individuals and Gatherings

Messages by Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

John Piper | The individual soul’s affection for God is essential to the corporate, eternal reality of the worshiping church.

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0:00.0

Would you pray with me?

0:06.7

We have done it and now we do it one more time here before I speak.

0:12.8

We wait for you.

0:15.8

We wait for you.

0:18.6

And I pray that you would come now in our waiting and in my speaking and satisfy our souls

0:27.3

in Christ and all that He has done and all that you, Father, are for us in Him.

0:35.3

And I pray that under you, Father, we would see that there isn't anything greater except

0:40.3

for one thing, there isn't anything greater under you except for one thing than the individual

0:48.5

soul of flame in worship.

0:52.4

And that one thing is the bride of Christ of flame in worship.

1:00.0

So come and show us now the connection between these two things I pray.

1:06.8

And set a hearts and our churches of flame with God centered, Christ exalting, Bible

1:16.5

saturated worship.

1:20.2

I ask this in Jesus name, amen.

1:25.7

So the individual human soul, underline the word individual, the individual human soul,

1:33.7

rightly seeing the glory of Christ and rightly savoring the glory of Christ is at the heart

1:42.6

of the purpose for which God made the world.

1:47.1

And until we grasp the relationship between that and corporate worship, we won't be able

1:57.1

to give an account for why the worship of the bride, the worship of the temple, the

2:02.4

worship of the body is the ultimate end for why God made the world, not merely the individual

2:11.0

soul worshiping.

2:14.1

So what I want to do in this message is try to steer a course between two errors.

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