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Messages by Desiring God

One Life: Don’t Waste It

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2012

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The life that exalts Christ, enjoys him, and happily overflows to meet the needs of others — that life will never be wasted.

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0:00.0

These two aren't even in competition. These two are one.

0:06.8

That you live for God's glory and that you be happy in God are won

0:11.2

because the Rose story the wife God is made to look good, glorious, valuable, treasured, praise worthy, satisfying when you are more

0:30.2

satisfied in her him than anything else. That's what makes him look great. And so if you're not satisfied in God, you're making him look bad.

0:40.0

Which means you're not doing what he created you to do.

0:45.0

So that's the point so far.

0:48.0

The third reason that you exist and that you need to bring your life into conformity to

0:58.0

is that he made you to love other people, to do them good, and what's good, to include them in what you've experienced.

1:13.0

They need to glorify God and they need to be happy in God, ultimately.

1:19.0

Love...

1:21.0

I spoke at Lausanne over a year ago in South Africa this big global conference

1:27.9

where Christians from every country of the world were present and I pleaded with them that they would all agree with this sentence

1:39.0

and I'm gonna plead with you now let, and I'm addressing the issue of social, physical, caring for

1:48.9

people and spiritual caring for

1:55.0

human trafficking and clean water and good education and

1:58.0

clean water and good education and let's have food on the table

2:02.0

that's put food in people's bellies let's have food on the table that's put food in people's bellies let's help them

2:06.0

can't even survive without help and then there's others who say they're gonna go to

2:11.9

hell they need the gospel.

2:17.0

And I'm just pleading with you. Don't separate those.

2:21.0

They're both absolutely true. You're not called to choose between those. When I say,

2:29.5

God made you to love people, I'm not asking you to choose. So here's the sentence. I said

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