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Messages by Desiring God

Reflections on the Life of Isaac Newton

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

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🗓️ 20 April 2012

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Isaac Newton, biography, I finished last night and stayed up until light hours preparing

0:10.2

notes to read to you on this book.

0:13.0

And because as I thought,

0:18.0

I've got to give devotion my morning,

0:20.0

and I just finished this book as all I'm thinking about.

0:22.0

I'm going to shift gears at 11 o'clock here and try to prepare something else that no, don't shift gears, just show them what you learned from this and lessons that, why do you read a book like this anyway?

0:34.0

125 pages.

0:36.0

Oxford University Press is the fairly responsible academic and yet readable

0:42.1

biography of Isaac Newton.

0:45.0

Gail is a man, Gail Christensen,

0:49.0

and I found it riveting.

0:52.0

And so I'm gonna to summarize it for you and tell you lots of interesting things about

0:58.4

Isaac Newton and try to draw some spiritual lessons from it. If I would choose a text for this it would be God

1:07.6

created man in his own image, male and

1:15.0

subdue creation.

1:18.0

Isaac Newton was a creature of God, he was a creature of God.

1:22.0

He was a human being in the image of God and one of the most

1:26.4

brilliant men that ever walked this planet in the image of God and as far as I can

1:32.3

tell missed it profoundly.

1:37.0

Born Christmas Day 1642 to a semi illiterate or semi literate widow.

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His father had died three months before he was born. Her name was Hannah. They lived in the village of

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Colsterworth, England. Went to Cambridge University. His mother wanted him to

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