How to Deal with the Guilt of Sexual Failure for the Glory of Christ and His Global Cause

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

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🗓️ 4 January 2007

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Satan will certainly remind you of your sinful failures. But Christ has defeated both the devil and sin to give you a redeemed passion.

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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.
0:13.0	Let's pray together.
0:15.0	Father, we want you to make us brave,
0:21.0	broken-hearted,
0:23.6	men and women.
0:28.2	And so to that end, I pray that you would come
0:31.7	and help me to be faithful to your word.
0:34.8	Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
0:40.3	And we want to be people filled with faith.
0:46.0	When I fall, I shall rise.
0:49.0	When I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.
0:55.0	I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against Him.
1:00.7	Until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me, he will bring me out to the light and I will look upon his vindication.
1:14.7	So Lord, for the morning after the failure,
1:18.4	I pray for liberty, I pray for power, and I pray for power and I pray you would come upon this gathering in these two
1:27.4	sites and do a work that will ripple to the end of time and to the end of the world in Jesus name.
1:36.8	Amen.
1:39.2	The closest that I have ever come to being fired from my present position as a pastor at Bethlehem Baptist
1:49.8	Church for the last 26 years where I have served is in the middle 80s, it was in the middle 80s
1:56.4	when I wrote an article for our church newsletter entitled Missions and masturbation.
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