How Can I Grow in Obeying God?

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

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🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Unless God enables our obedience, we work and serve in vain. All true obedience flows from the strength he supplies.

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0:00.0	In Romans 1 verse 5, the Apostle Paul talks about the obedience of faith, or more clearly,
0:11.0	the obedience that comes from faith, as the NIV puts it, we obey God only by faith in
0:19.0	God.
0:20.0	Faithless obedience is a fiction.
0:24.1	In this point, in this text led to a late-night life-changed moment for one of our listeners
0:29.1	named Stephen.
0:30.5	Stephen writes in to say this, I was listening to Piper Sermon on Romans 1, 5, late one
0:34.6	night, as I was battling to go to sleep.
0:37.0	I'm going to assume that he was up and needed something to do not that he was trying to
0:40.4	fall asleep.
0:41.7	The whole week was one great struggle for me against my flesh.
0:46.0	I heard this verse taught, like never before, it completely changed the way I went about
0:50.8	pursuing Christ.
0:52.2	I was going about pursuing holiness the wrong way.
0:55.3	The Lord spoke clearly to me that I had to stop making my number one goal, holiness.
1:00.4	My life goal is to delight myself in Him.
1:04.0	And from the joy I receive in Him comes the grace which I received by faith to do good
1:10.2	works.
1:11.2	Thank you, Stephen, for that testimony.
1:13.6	Here's the clip that Stephen shared in particular, John Piper preaching on Romans 1 verse
1:19.3	5 back in 1998.
1:21.9	Here he is.
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