Perseverance of the Saints

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

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🗓️ 15 March 2008

⏱️ 57 minutes

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John Piper | The doctrine of perseverance is not meant to elicit passivity, but rather to impart assurance to us in the fight of faith to the end.

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0:00.0	The following message is by pastor John Piper.
0:04.0	More information from Desiring God is available at
0:07.0	W.W.
0:09.0	Desiring God.
0:11.0	O.G.
0:13.0	Why are you a Christian when you wake up in the morning?
0:17.0	When you go to bed at night, Christ is real and precious and you pray and you enjoy fellowship,
0:30.0	why should it be that way when you wake up in the morning?
0:36.8	Our emotions are fickle, our will goes this way and that way.
0:40.8	We change our opinions. we get blown around by events why shouldn't
0:46.7	you wake up an unbeliever yeah that's boring why did I ever buy into that that was
0:51.3	stupid why not And there is one answer.
0:56.7	Now unto him who is able to keep you from falling.
1:04.0	Be glory forever and ever.
1:07.0	That's only one answer.
1:09.0	Isn't automatic?
1:11.0	And like, I prayed my prayer, I believe in eternal security, therefore I can never be lost, period, not the way it works.
1:17.0	He keeps you.
1:20.0	So that's the P. And I have about, I don't know, 17 pages of text.
1:30.0	So we'll do it. And they're just juicy. So that's why we should linger over them.
1:39.2	Gonna skip Westminster and go to Bethlehem's affirmation of faith again.
1:47.0	What's the doctrine? What are we arguing for from the Bible in this session?
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