Learning to Follow God’s Will

Ask Pastor John

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

God doesn’t give us a blueprint for our futures, but he does give us biblical trajectories by which we can discern his will and follow it with confidence.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the podcast.
0:05.6	We started the week looking at the key to following God's will.
0:09.3	And last time in Mondays episode, Pastor John closed with a very great point on Colossians
0:14.8	1-9.
0:16.0	There we saw that Paul was asking God to pour out his Holy Spirit so that the Spirit would
0:21.0	remove the dimness of our ability to see God for who he really is, so that we would have
0:27.1	spiritual wisdom that experiences preferences and makes choices that are in harmony with
0:33.6	God's beauty.
0:35.0	So seeing more of God is essential to following his will in our daily decision making.
0:42.7	That was Monday in APJ 1807.
0:45.6	Go back and listen to that episode if you skipped it or if you missed it because today we
0:50.2	put that principle into practice.
0:52.2	And we do so by looking at an example of one man who proceeded with a major life decision
0:56.4	with confidence knowing that he was following God's will.
1:01.0	He knew it.
1:02.5	He was confident in his decision because he was following the trajectory of God's revealed
1:07.8	will.
1:09.6	This is a clip taken from an old John Pepper sermon preached way back in 1882.
1:15.7	Here's Pastor John.
1:17.7	Now Jesus taught us to pray every day that I will be done on earth as it is done in heaven.
1:30.1	Therefore everyone who confesses Jesus as Lord makes it his aim day by day consistently
1:40.6	and heartily to do the will of God, the way that the angels do it.
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