Look at Christ, What Do You See?

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

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🗓️ 18 March 2015

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

We don’t come to Christ simply by making a decision for him. God needs to give us a fresh sight of his infinite, all-satisfying beauty and worth.

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0:00.0	Look at Christ and what do you see in Him?
0:09.3	The answer to that question determines everything as Pastor John explained why in his message
0:14.4	at Passion to 20,000 students in Atlanta on January 3rd, 2015.
0:20.9	Here's what he said.
0:24.4	My guess is that for many of you, this language is not the way you grew up talking about
0:33.0	the gospel.
0:38.0	I don't know that you are familiar with anyone saying, when Christ died for me, the best
0:47.4	thing he purchased for me is the greatest gift of the love of God, namely God's gift
0:55.3	of the beauty of God to satisfy my soul forever.
0:59.8	I don't know how many of you ever talked that way, or when you got saved, think that's
1:06.5	what happened.
1:10.8	So here's my, here's why I'm preaching on this.
1:13.6	I want you, true Christian, to know that happened to you, and you've experienced that.
1:22.3	Nobody may have ever taught you the language to use to define what God really did in your
1:27.2	life, and then there's others of you who've been playing this game called religion because
1:33.9	it's a cool group on your campus, and you've never seen it.
1:40.0	I'm talking a foreign language to you right now.
1:42.8	I don't even know what you mean by the beauty of God.
1:48.4	I want you to see.
1:50.1	So I've got three answers to this last question.
1:52.6	What difference will it make in your life?
1:54.2	Here's number one.
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