I Shipwrecked My Faith — Am I Doomed?

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

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🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Is there any hope for the recovery of a shipwrecked faith? Pastor John offers four reasons shipwreck need not be final.

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0:00.0	Well, back in October of last year, we looked at the shipwrecked faith, specifically,
0:09.8	how do people make shipwreck of their faith?
0:12.6	What causes it?
0:14.2	And there in APJ, 1849, Pastor John, you define the shipwrecked faith as a person who makes
0:19.3	a beginning in the Christian life, but who drifts away as their heart increasingly prefers
0:25.2	sin over Christ.
0:28.1	It's a heart preference issue.
0:31.1	The heart falls in love with riches or the heart falls in love with this present world
0:36.3	and it's approval.
0:38.0	And so it rejects a good conscience and becomes defiled by the world's sin.
0:45.4	Basically, a shipwrecked faith is the heart's desires corrupted.
0:50.3	You made that point in APJ, 1849.
0:53.5	But sometimes when we speak of the shipwrecked faith, we assume that this state is one of
0:57.4	final undoing.
0:58.4	Like there's no hope of return.
1:00.0	It's over.
1:01.0	You shipwrecked or you don't shipwreck.
1:03.2	And that leads to today's email from a listener named Jacob.
1:07.1	Pastor John, thank you for all your service and for your passion in the gospel.
1:11.3	My question is this, is there hope for those who have shipwrecked their faith?
1:18.0	I believe I've done this as first in the 119 describes happened to those who have rejected
1:23.6	a good conscience.
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