Killing Our Addiction to Human Praise
Ask Pastor John
Desiring God
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🗓️ 5 November 2014
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Every one of us is born with an addiction for human praise. |
| 0:08.7 | We want people to like us, but we also want people to praise us, and if we're not careful |
| 0:12.6 | we can feed on human praise. |
| 0:15.0 | We get addicted to likes on Facebook and Instagram and retweets, and our day is only going |
| 0:19.6 | well if people favor it to us or hurt us or share us. |
| 0:23.1 | We want personal praise gone viral. |
| 0:26.1 | So what is our addiction to human praise due to us? |
| 0:28.5 | And how can we sever the source of this addiction? |
| 0:31.2 | To help, here's a clip from John Piper Sermon, the love of human praise as the root of |
| 0:36.1 | unbelief. |
| 0:37.1 | Here's what he said. |
| 0:38.6 | Faith is drinking living water for the satisfaction of our souls. |
| 0:45.3 | This is John 4, this is John 635. |
| 0:48.8 | Come to me. |
| 0:49.8 | I'm water. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm living water. |
| 0:52.3 | You drink from me. |
| 0:53.3 | That's what faith is. |
| 0:54.6 | Faith is a coming to Jesus to drink living water into our desperately thirsty souls so |
| 1:01.0 | that our souls are rested, satisfied, comforted, deeply happy in all that God is for us in |
| 1:10.2 | Jesus. |
| 1:11.2 | Now when that happens, it drives out the enslaving craving for the praise of man. |
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