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Ask Pastor John

God Never Runs Out

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Everything in this world eventually runs out: money runs out, health runs out, pleasure runs out, time runs out. But God never runs out.

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0:00.0

Man, I really love this question today.

0:07.0

Here it is.

0:08.0

Hello, Pastor John.

0:09.0

My name is Alex and I live in Alabama.

0:10.8

I was just thinking today about all the things that run out.

0:14.5

Money runs out.

0:15.5

Food runs out.

0:16.8

Sex runs out.

0:18.2

Cars run out.

0:19.2

Time runs out.

0:20.2

People run out of time and die.

0:22.1

But God never runs out.

0:25.9

Can you elaborate on that subject for me?

0:28.2

It seems like a reminder not to rely on things, but on the eternal God.

0:33.2

Pastor John, what did you say to Alex?

0:34.8

I am so eager for this question.

0:38.1

I am so thankful that Alex simply threw open the door for me to talk about the inexhaustibility

0:47.2

of God.

0:48.2

A couple of reasons why I'm so excited to talk about this.

0:52.9

One is that my introduction to reformed theology 50 years ago was not mainly through secondary

1:02.6

theological sources, but through texts of the Bible that elevated the self-sufficiency,

1:10.9

the inexhaustibility of God as high as it possibly could be elevated.

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