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Light + Truth

Showing Christ Means Showing Love

Light + Truth

Desiring God

Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

How do we become more loving? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to 2 Corinthians 3:12–18 to explain how seeing Christ is the key to showing love.

Transcript

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0:19.8

How are you being transformed according to this verse? If you're not satisfied with the with the rate of progress in your life of coming into the likeness of Jesus? This text says, look more at the glory of Jesus.

0:25.0

Look more at the glory of Jesus.

0:28.0

We all, with unveiled faith, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord are being changed are being transformed how are you being transformed by beholding Christ

0:41.6

So how do we become more loving?

0:45.0

In this episode of Light and Truth,

0:48.0

John Piper turns to 2 Corinthians 3, 12 to 18,

0:52.0

to explain how seeing Christ is the key to showing love.

0:57.0

The sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on June 11th, 1995.

1:07.0

If you want to show Jesus this summer

1:10.0

love somebody, practically.

1:13.0

Stretch out your heart, open your face and your heart.

1:17.0

Why?

1:18.0

To people?

1:19.0

Because it's not a normal thing to do in our society.

1:24.0

Summer is for seeing and showing Christ

1:28.0

winter in Minnesota is you pull it up over your head you run from igloo to igloo you don't

1:38.1

care who you pass on the street is not an ideal witness time.

1:45.0

So God takes it away for a month or two in Minnesota,

1:50.0

and he does it very specifically so that you can be outside, so that you can linger, you watch

1:58.0

your neighbor working over there and you work over there and you pray.

2:01.9

Lord, let us happen. Let a relationship happen here for Christ's

2:07.1

sake and for love sake and for natural neighborliness sake. Do that, summer is foreseeing and showing Christ.

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