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Messages by Desiring God

Preaching and the Suffering of the People

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2000

⏱️ 48 minutes

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John Piper | Suffering is no accident. Preachers need to show their people that God’s hand is sovereign over every one of our pains.

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And our hearts sore with that thought. Nothing changes you. The same yesterday, today, and forever.

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We get sick, we get well, we live, we die, we flourish, we

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perish, and you abide.

0:20.3

From everlasting to everlasting you are God and we thrill to know you

0:29.9

That the wise man glory not in his wisdom,

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the strong man glory not in his strength.

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Let us glory that we know you.

0:45.0

In all our weakness, in all our suffering, in all our hardships, in all our disappointments and frustrations,

0:52.0

may our hearts sing. all our

0:53.3

disappointments and frustrations, may our hearts sing,

0:56.6

that we know you and that you've awakened us

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and made us your own, and bought us.

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So sustain us, Lord, and work in this time together to make murders where there must be

1:10.7

martyrs and missionaries and pastors and lay folks who say the steadfast love of the

1:19.1

Lord is better than life. Work the miracle, Lord, that we long for in our lives of seeing you and knowing you and

1:31.4

loving you and treas pressuring you above all things.

1:35.0

In Jesus, name I pray, Amen.

1:38.0

I'd say three things about the election before I start.

1:44.8

Actually, as it's part of starting because everybody's thinking about it.

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Number one, God decides who gets to be president.

1:54.3

Number two, there are transactions in the world

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right now through the preaching the gospel that are a thousand times more important than who's president in America

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