God's Delight in Being God

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🗓️ 24 August 2012

⏱️ 77 minutes

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John Piper | God’s delight in being God consists in his happiness in himself as the triune God and his passion to do all things for his name’s sake.

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0:08.0	God's pleasure in election. Here's election. Here's some texts to show you what's meant by election.
0:19.6	Behold to the Lord your God belong heaven and earth, heaven and the heaven of
0:26.4	heavens the earth with all that is in it. Yet the Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them.
0:39.8	You above all the peoples that you are as you are this day.
0:47.4	So when it says the Lord set his heart,
1:03.6	set his heart in love on your fathers, that literally means the Lord loved to love your fathers. Set your heart and chose.
1:05.0	It's an amazing statement.
1:08.2	The Lord loved to love your fathers and chose them.
1:14.4	So set your heart and love on your fathers
1:17.2	is literally this chashak.
1:19.7	He loved to love your fathers and he chose them.
1:23.0	So he was acting in the overflow of his joy.
1:25.5	He was not constrained by anything outside himself,
1:29.2	like, oh, there's a beautiful people, Israel,
1:31.2	I'll choose them because they're so attractive.
1:33.6	That's not at all what was going on.
1:34.9	He acted freely.
1:36.0	His election was unconditional.
1:39.5	It's amazing how many people today love to talk about the unconditional love of God and don't realize
1:45.6	what they're saying.
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