How I Distinguish Between the Gospel and False Gospels

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

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🗓️ 26 February 2008

⏱️ 92 minutes

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0:00.0	The following message is by pastor John Piper. More information from desiring God is available at
0:07.0	W.W.
0:09.2	D. D. desiring God. O.R G. The theme is distinguishing the true gospel from false
0:20.2	Gospels or I would qualified distortions or obscuring
0:26.2	underminings of the Gospel.
0:30.7	Begin with a verse, Philippians 1-7, you are all partakers with me of grace in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.
0:51.2	That is a very encouraging verse to me at this moment.
0:55.0	You and I, together, are partakers of the grace in confirming and defending the gospel. It takes grace to
1:12.0	confirm and defend the gospel. It's a good thing to confirm and defend the gospel.
1:17.0	Chapter 2, versus 12 and 13, work out your salvation with fear and trembling for is God who is at work in you.
1:29.7	Now I'm doing that right now. I am with fear and trembling working out my salvation in defending the gospel for God is at work in work in me.
1:42.0	That's grace. By the grace of God, I am what I am.
1:48.0	Nevertheless, I worked harder than any of them. That's Paul talking, not me.
1:52.0	Nevertheless, I worked harder than any of them, that's Paul talking, not me, nevertheless I worked harder than any of them.
1:54.4	It was not I but the grace of God that was with me.
1:58.5	So Paul is saying, when you undertake to defend and confirm the gospel, which you should often do. And what I love about verse
2:02.6	the gospel, which you should often do, depend on grace.
2:08.4	And what I love about verse 7 of Philippians 1 is it says,
2:12.1	you are partners with me in the grace that we
2:16.9	experience in defending the gospel. So I have great confidence that at this moment grace is coming down from heaven on us. So I'd like to pray
2:29.2	and agree with that and ask for its abundance.
2:33.0	So let's ask him.
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