Jesus Loves God’s Glory

Light + Truth

Desiring God

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper provides one glorious reason Christ is precious by exploring his love for God’s glory in John 7:1–18.

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0:00.0	If you ever meet a man who loves the glory of God more than everything in all the world
0:15.9	and is devoted to that glory 100% and cares nothing for the glory of man, believe that man,
0:24.6	he is true.
0:29.0	Jesus is that man and it's one glorious reason he is precious to us.
0:36.3	In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper explores Christ's love for his father's
0:42.3	glory from John 7 1 to 18.
0:45.7	The sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on February 14, 1982.
0:56.2	Jesus is precious not only because his biblical portrait is true in the sense that he was
1:03.5	raised from the dead but also because the rest of all his features are accurate as they
1:10.1	are portrayed in the Scripture.
1:14.2	I don't think most people believe in Jesus because they have first been persuaded that
1:22.7	the Bible is the infallible word of God.
1:27.4	I think it's just the other way around.
1:31.1	People's confidence in the Bible begins to grow precisely because this Jesus in its
1:38.3	pages comes alive for them.
1:41.2	Starts to take hold of their heart and then out from that center point spreads the confidence
1:49.4	in his word and in the word that went before him.
1:54.2	The foundation of our confidence in the Bible is the self-authenticating person of Jesus
2:02.9	Christ.
2:04.4	The outstanding features of that portrait of Jesus can be seen in the word whether you
2:09.3	believe that word is the word of God and is infallible or not.
2:15.9	He's there and can be seen.
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