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Messages by Desiring God

Public Worship in a Secular World: What, Why and How, Session 2

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 1990

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

When churches gather in corporate worship, rock-solid doctrine and intense emotion ought to work side by side. God wants both our minds and our hearts when we worship.

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We're going to talk tonight about the heart and the head in worship.

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And just sit back and listen to this text that God inspired for you, because I'm just assuming that

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virtually everybody in this room is a believer and can just absorb and enjoy what I'm about to say to you.

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While we were weak at the right time Christ died for the ungodly, one will hardly die for a righteous man, and yet perchance for a good man one might even

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dare to die. But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet

0:56.8

sinners Christ died for us. Therefore, since we are justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by

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him from the wrath of God.

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For if while we were yet enemies,

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we were reconciled to God by the death of his son,

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much more shall we be saved by his life. And not only that, but we rejoice

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in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have received the reconciliation.

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I commend it to you for your memory.

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It is just a rock. He died for the ungodly. He died for us while we were still enemies.

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I mean, there is so much liberty of soul, to be had in understanding justification by faith.

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Before we had done any works that could have ever merited anything like the justification we received in the death of Jesus.

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Be encouraged tonight.

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Matter really what you brought in here when you came, if you are a believer, it's taken care of.

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It's okay.

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It's under the blood.

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Let's pray. And so Father, freest to work on this issue tonight, may that truth so

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grip these friends that they can lay down the worries of the day. They can lay down the

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guilt of the week.

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