Seek the Things That Are Above

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Desiring God

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

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🗓️ 29 December 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Every believer in Jesus Christ has a potent spiritual superpower. With the Spirit’s help, we now can seek the very things of heaven above.

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0:00.0	The following resource is from desiring God.org.
0:04.0	You are our life, Lord Jesus.
0:09.0	We have died.
0:12.0	We have been raised, and our life is hidden with Christ in God when you Christ
0:21.3	appear who is our life,
0:25.4	then we will appear with you in glory.
0:28.4	Make these words plain and powerful transforming to us now in Jesus name I ask it. Amen. May be seated.
0:38.0	My college years began 55 years ago, fall of 1964. My seminary days began 51 years ago, 1968.
1:00.5	And I mentioned that because looking out on you
1:06.6	reminds me of the remarkable hope and excitement I felt in those days at Wheaton College and Fuller Seminary.
1:18.0	And I thought what an amazing thing it is that for most of you students, not all of you, but most of you,
1:30.0	there is 50 years in front of you.
1:35.0	Amazing, aren't you amazed?
1:41.0	You have 50, perhaps, years of ministry in front of you. Life. And then I think of the thousands and thousands of ideas that are going to come at you during those 50 years.
2:06.6	Ideas about what is real.
2:09.7	Real.
2:11.7	And you'll have to decide what's real. And you'll have to decide what's real.
2:15.0	And ideas about how your mind should be shaped by what's real,
2:21.0	kind of disposition or mindset you should have. And ideas about
2:28.0	what's the path into the mindset that accords with what's real.
2:36.2	And ideas about the kind of life
2:38.4	that should flow from the mindset
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