Living with Gospel-Sized Ambition

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🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Acts 20:24 has encouraged and challenged Christians throughout the centuries. How, in particular, has it shaped the life and ministry of John Piper?

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the podcast.
0:05.3	Tomorrow we come to a text in our Bible reading that should compel all of us to be driven by a gospel-sized ambition in this life.
0:13.6	The text is Acts 24.
0:16.5	We've already looked at it.
0:17.9	And this huge aspiration from a couple of different angles, as you can see in the APJ book on pages 69 and 70 in episodes, looking specifically at following our heart and chasing after ambitious careers in this world. How do we do big ambition well to glorify God in our aspirations?
0:36.7	Those APJs, again, are digested in the book on pages 69 and 70.
0:41.0	Now, of course, Pastor John, this glorious text comes in Paul's final parting words to
0:45.9	the beloved Ephesian elders in Acts 20 versus 1738.
0:50.6	A deeply moving account that we read together tomorrow in our Bible reading and a text
0:55.0	on the mind of a listener named Derek.
0:57.7	Pastor John, hello.
0:58.6	I graduate from seminary this spring, and as I prepare for full-time ministry, I want to
1:04.1	better understand Paul's claim in Acts 2024 when he says,
1:08.2	I do not account my life of any value nor is precious to myself, if only I may
1:14.5	finish my course and the ministry that I receive from the Lord Jesus to testify to the
1:19.7	gospel of the grace of God.
1:23.5	For your life as a pastor, what do you take from this text?
1:26.9	What did this Pauline conviction for the gospel over your life look like and feel like for you?
1:33.7	I love this text, Acts 2024, and it's one of the reasons that I love the Apostle Paul.
1:40.3	Yeah.
1:40.5	So I'm happy to meditate on it again, as I have so often over the years.
1:48.4	Way back when I wrote the book, Don't Waste Your Life, over 20 years ago,
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