Make Your Life Count: The Greatest Missions Letter Ever Written

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Christianity, Messages, Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Preaching, Desiring God, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, John Piper

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🗓️ 4 January 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

One day soon, people from every nation will bring God praise and glory. But they won’t encounter everlasting hope until God’s people go and send. Piper preached this message on January 4, 2019, at the CROSS Conference in Louisville, where thousands gathered to discern their call to the nations.

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0:00.0	The following resource is from desiring God.org.
0:04.0	Paul's epistle to the Romans is the greatest letter that has ever been written in the history of the world.
0:16.0	Greatest because it's the greatest unfolding
0:22.0	of the condition of the world and what God has done to save it and the way his people are to live in it.
0:32.2	It's the greatest because it is the very word of God
0:36.0	inspired by the spirit of God and more comprehensive than all the other
0:41.5	inspired letters in scripture.
0:45.0	It's the greatest because it bears the marks
0:49.0	and carries the fullest message of the greatest theologian and the greatest missionary who has ever lived
0:58.0	after Jesus Christ.
1:00.4	It's the greatest because no other letter has given greater challenges to the greatest minds in history.
1:11.0	It's greatest because no letter in history of the world has a greater effect, has ever
1:18.7	had a greater effect on the formation or the reformation of the doctrine and life of the Global Church of Christ.
1:28.5	Its greatest because of all the inspired letters in the New Testament and of all the uninspired
1:35.0	letters in the history of the world, Romans has been used by God to save more
1:41.2	sinners than any other letter in existence or out of existence.
1:47.0	David Platt, last time we were together, recited from memory during his message the first eight chapters of Romans and God
1:57.6	saved students during that recitation.
2:02.1	One young woman knew the very chapter in which he was born again
2:07.0	listening to the book of Romans.
2:11.0	Therefore, I have high expectations, great expectations, that as I try to
2:18.9	unfold the message of the Book of Romans for the greatest cause in the world, namely the cause
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