How to Repay God

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

You can’t give anything to God or do anything for God that he hasn’t first given to you and done for you.

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0:00.0	September 8,
0:02.1	how to repay God.
0:05.1	What shall I render to the Lord for all of His benefits to me?
0:10.2	I will lift up the cup of salvation
0:13.5	and call on the name of the Lord.
0:16.5	I will pay my vows to the Lord,
0:19.6	Psalm 116, 12 to 14.
0:24.1	The very use of the language rendering to God
0:28.0	for all of His benefits to me makes me nervous.
0:32.1	Payback can so easily imply that grace is like a mortgage.
0:39.0	It's really generous, but you have to pay it back.
0:44.4	Paul said in Acts 1725,
0:47.4	God is not served by human hands as though he needed anything
0:51.9	since he himself gives to all mankind
0:54.8	life and breath and everything.
0:57.2	In other words, you can't give anything to God
1:02.0	or do anything for God
1:04.8	that He hasn't first given to you and done for you.
1:10.5	You see this again in 1 Corinthians 1510.
1:13.9	By the grace of God I am what I am
1:16.4	and His grace toward me was not in vain.
1:19.6	On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them,
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