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Messages by Desiring God

Money, Sex, and Power: Definitions and Foundations

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Money, sex, and power are three good gifts of God. We know the basic definition of each — but is there more underneath the surface?

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0:00.0

Thank you.

0:09.3

Thank you. It's really a privilege to be with you because everything I see so far in the Commission has made me encouraged and I'll say more about that as we go along and give you specifics. But thank you for singing the way you do.

0:36.2

I love to preach into a singing people. So let me pray that God would help me now and help you and make us connect.

0:45.0

Father I asked that you would come and be our teacher.

0:52.0

I ask Holy Spirit that you would draw near and guard me from error, cause me to be

1:01.1

faithful to your word,

1:03.0

grant me wisdom, grant protection from not only error, but pride

1:10.0

or failing to feel emotions that are appropriate to your word and grant that this

1:18.6

people would have a heart to hear and to receive and to be transformed by whatever truth is spoken.

1:27.0

So build our faith now, strengthen these churches that are represented here, make the impact through this weekend

1:38.4

stronger than we could ever imagine for the sake of the churches, the network, the city, and this nation

1:47.0

and indeed the world for the glory of Christ, we pray.

1:51.9

In his name, amen.

1:55.0

Between the time that I gave the titles for the messages, the three messages, and when I prepared the messages I changed everything around.

2:08.0

So still money, sex and power, and walking in the light.

2:12.9

But here's the way I'm going to do it,

2:15.4

and you who planned everything shouldn't change anything.

2:18.9

Okay.

2:19.8

So on page 14 here, it's got the title for today, if you have your booklet, and I'm going to devote

2:29.3

the first message now to definitions and foundations and then what at 1130 or whenever the

2:40.6

next message is I'm going to devote the message to defeating the dangers

2:48.8

of money, sex and power, all of them together, and then tomorrow, deploying the potentials of money, sex, and

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