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Messages by Desiring God

Is There a “Lord’s Day”?

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2005

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Setting apart a day of rest testifies to a self-reliant world that our work does not save or define us, Christ does.

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The following message is by pastor John Piper.

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More information from Desiring God is available at

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W.W.

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Desiring God.org.

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Scripture text for this morning is from Romans

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Chapter 14, verses 1 through 9.

0:21.1

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions, one person

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believes he may eat anything while a weak person eats only vegetables.

0:33.0

Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains,

0:37.0

and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats,

0:41.0

for God has welcomed him.

0:44.0

Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another?

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It is before his own master that he stands or falls,

0:52.0

and he will be upheld for the Lord is able to make him stand.

0:57.0

One person, esteem one day, is better than another, while another steams all days alike.

1:05.0

Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

1:08.8

The one who observes the day observes it in honor of the Lord,

1:12.3

the one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, the one who eats eats in honor of the Lord, since

1:16.0

he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains abstains in honor of the Lord and

1:21.6

gives thanks to God.

1:23.0

For none of us lives to himself and none of us dies to himself.

1:28.0

If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord.

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