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Messages by Desiring God

How Our Children Can Know the Bible Is True

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

I want to help parents (and leaders of children’s ministries) see how the Bible shows itself to be true — and how to communicate this vital truth to our children.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you, Dan. I feel very at home here. I think it's theological, I'm not sure,

0:12.4

but I really enjoy it very much. Thank you so much for letting me do this.

0:16.0

I'm very excited about what I have to tell you.

0:18.0

So I'm going to ask God's help to do it so that it will not just be interesting because I'm enjoying it but will be life-changing because he's doing it.

0:28.0

Father come now and in these few minutes we have together teach us.

0:34.1

Holy Spirit be on me and on these people in such a way

0:40.1

that whatever I say that's true would feel gloriously true to them.

0:47.7

And if I say anything amiss, may it go right by them.

0:52.4

So do a mighty transforming work for them and for the thousands of children

1:00.0

who will be affected by their lives and teaching.

1:06.0

I pray this in Jesus' great name,

1:08.0

Amen.

1:11.0

So let's put the conference text before us again. I assume it's been put before you.

1:17.8

Acts 20, 26 to 27, therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all.

1:29.2

For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole council of God.

1:36.7

Now I infer from this text

1:39.4

that there is a body of truth,

1:55.0

whole council of God, that is so important that if people don't have it and believe it, they perish.

2:02.1

Verse 27, because I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole council of God I am innocent of your blood.

2:07.0

Innocent of your blood.

2:10.0

That doesn't mean... blood.

2:13.6

That doesn't mean if I tell it to you,

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