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Messages by Desiring God

Jesus Came Not to Give Bread but to Be Bread

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2009

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Our greatest need is not physical but spiritual. We crave the bread of life more than bread for our stomachs.

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This has been a really remarkable afternoon, as you can imagine.

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My first time here and hope not my last.

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But I have been moved.

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I just want to greet the several brothers whose hands I shook over on death row.

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I told him to be watching on Channel 21 and they said they would be.

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So I said I would remember you and Gerald you said you'd be watching. I want you to listen real carefully. I hope you are.

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I've seen the lay of the land and I've heard remarkable stories and the work of God

0:47.6

here is unprecedented as you know in prisons and I feel a weight on me that I hope the Lord processes in terms of

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power and not oppression and the reason I feel such a weight

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is because I know most of you aren't aren't leaving this place except to go to

1:10.8

heaven and that's except to go to heaven.

1:16.0

And that's heavy. It's got to be a battle lots of times.

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The message that I have is a combination of the last three Sundays at my church. So I didn't prepare the substance of this just for you. But as I was

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praying three or four days ago, Lord, what what am I supposed to say in this situation?

1:46.2

And I went over in my mind what I had been trying to drive home to my people from the

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sixth chapter of John John I think the Lord said just go there and apply it to

1:59.6

their situation and here's the remarkable thing. I hope you see this. There is a sense in which

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your position here in prison next stop heaven makes it easier for you to get this message than for my people who are tempted every day to be

2:29.4

idolaters with their

2:40.5

Freetem and their prosperity. So you test that you see whether that's the case or not. Let me sum it up. It's do the big summary of where I'm going and then we're going to go in if you

2:44.3

have a Bible and you want to go with me you can go to John the Gospel of John chapter

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