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Light + Truth

Reflecting God’s Glory, Rejoicing in His Beauty

Light + Truth

Desiring God

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Will we somehow share in God’s glory in the age to come? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper draws on Athanasius and Scripture to show how believers will rejoice in the radiance of Christ.

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The display of God's glory will be, in the end, internal and external.

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It will be spiritual and physical.

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We will display the glory of God by Christ exalting joy in the glory of God in the

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face of Christ and by Christ exalting deeds done with our resurrection bodies. Hi, I'm your host, Dan Kruver.

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So will we only savor God's glory in the age to come or somehow sharing it?

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In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper draws on Athanasius and Scripture

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to show how believers will rejoice in the radiance of Christ

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by becoming radiant themselves. This message was originally delivered at the 2005 Bethlehem

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conference for pastors.

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Don't aim to preach only in categories of thought that can be readily understood by this generation.

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Aim at creating biblical categories of thought that are not present there's a key word in that I don't want you to miss namely the word only don't aim to preach only in categories of thought

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that can be readily understood by this generation,

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aim at creating biblical categories of thought that are not present.

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Here's another way to say that.

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And I've benefited so much from Andrew Walls, his books on missions,

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and he has a cluster of ideas that have really brought light, at least to an issue,

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if not all the solutions to the issue.

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And the two clusters are the Pilgrim Principle and the the indigenous principle of the church.

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The pilgrim principle says, do not be conformed to this world, be transformed by the

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renewing of your mind.

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You've got to make new minds.

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And the indigenous principle says, I have become all things to all people that by all means I may save

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