How to Make a Difference in the World

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

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🗓️ 18 February 2015

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

We only have one life on this earth to devote to honoring and glorifying our Lord Jesus Christ. Don’t waste it; make it count.

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0:00.0	The following sermon excerpts may be the most spread excerpt in all of John Piper's preaching
0:10.1	legacy.
0:11.3	It contains phrases and sentences and images that have become emblems of his ministry.
0:17.4	The clip is taken from a message titled, boasting only in the cross which he preached outdoors
0:22.8	to about 20,000 college students at Passions One Day Conference on May 22,000.
0:30.2	Here's what John Piper said.
0:34.1	You don't have to know a lot of things in order to make a huge difference for the Lord in
0:40.5	the world.
0:43.2	But you do need to know a few things that are great.
0:52.1	You can be willing to live for them and die for them.
0:56.2	People that make a difference in the world are not people who have mastered a lot of things.
1:05.3	They are people who have been mastered by a very few things that are very, very great.
1:15.9	If you want your life to count, you don't have to have a high IQ and you don't have
1:21.6	to have a high IQ.
1:27.4	You don't have to be smart.
1:29.1	You don't have to have good looks.
1:30.6	You don't have to be from a good family or from a good school.
1:37.8	You just have to know a few basic, simple, glorious, majestic, obvious, unchanging, eternal
1:50.9	things and be gripped by them and be willing to lay down your life for them, which is why
1:58.5	anybody in this crowd can make a worldwide difference because it isn't you.
2:07.2	It's what you're gripped with.
2:09.4	But one of the really sad things about this moment right now is that there are hundreds
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