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Messages by Desiring God

In the Throne Room: The God of Holiness and Hope

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2012

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

When we say that God is holy, we have sailed to the end of language and must worship in silence and wonder.

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Father in heaven I pray that you would come

0:27.0

and that you would grant us some measure to see what Isaiah saw. In the year the king as I died, I saw the Lord seated upon a throne high and lifted up.

0:47.5

And the train of his robe filled the temple.

0:53.0

Above him stood the seraphim.

0:58.0

Each had six wings, with two, he covered his face and with two he covered his feet and with two he flew

1:09.4

and with two he flew and one cried to the other,

1:14.0

holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts.

1:20.0

The whole earth is full of his glory.

1:30.0

And the foundations of the threshold shook and the house was filled with smoke. Lord Jesus, you died that we might see this vision and count it, feel it as our unfathomable delight.

2:02.0

Would you work that in these women? Would you work that? Make your majestic self their unfathomable delight. I ask this in Jesus name, Amen.

2:27.0

June 1st, 1973, Chuck Coulson, which passed away in April, heard the gospel for the first time from Tom Phillips.

2:47.0

All the wild Watergate was exploding.

2:51.4

He was the special counsel to President Nixon.

2:54.0

That night, he said, I cried out to God

3:00.0

and found myself drawn irresistibly into his waiting arms.

3:08.0

That was the night I gave my life to Jesus Christ

3:12.0

and began the greatest adventure of my life.

3:17.0

Several years later Chuck Coulson repented of a very inadequate view of God.

3:28.4

He said it was a very dry season,

3:32.2

and a friend suggested to him that he watch a video cassette series by. Sproll called The Holiness of God. And here's what he wrote.

3:50.1

By the end of the sixth lecture, I was on my knees,

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