The highest priority for the preacher is to find wells of salvation from which he can drink every day

and from those wells, say, great is the Lord and mean it because he has drunk it up.

What does it mean to drink deeply from the wells of salvation?

And what does it mean both for the preacher and for us?

That's the question that John Piper answers in this episode of light and truth.

This sermon was originally preached in 1999 to a group of pastors in Kansas City, Missouri.

If God is really going to be supreme in our preaching and if we are really going to portray him

in such a way that he becomes alluring to people so that the nerve of sin is cut in their lives

and they are weaned off sin and brought to lead lives of radical, risk-taking obedience called love.

If we're going to preach in such a way as to make God that compelling and that alluring in people's

lives, then the question now on this third day becomes, what sort of preachers must we be?

What sort of men must preachers become and how do you become that way and stay that way?

And the answer is we must go deep in our grasp of the greatness of God and we must be passionate in our

love for the glory of God and we must be unwaveringly confident in the triumph of God

and from the track of the electron to the path of the galaxy and everything in between,

we must be totally persuaded that it all has to do with God and we must be

God be saithed from the crown of our head to the bottom of our feet

and we must be filled with all the fullness of God, as Paul says in Ephesians 319

and we must be overwhelmed with the wonder and the joy that God has been pleased to make

himself known to us and to call us into the ministry of making this great God known to others.

That's what's got to happen to us. Deep in God, passionate for God, confident of God,

God entranced, God be saithed, full of wonder that we know him, that he knows us, that he's called us.

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