God is most glorified in you when you receive more strength from him.

When your service is a reflection of having been so drenched and so blessed by his outpouring of strength and love and grace,

then he will be glorified.

Have you ever noticed how easy it is to slip into serving God in a way that depends more on you than on him.

When we find ourselves serving like that, we are always the weaker for it, even if we don't

realize it.

I'm Dan Kruver.

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper reminds us that God gets the glory when our

service overflows from his strength

and not our own.

This message was originally delivered at the EFAC National Conference in Melbourne, Australia

on June 30, 1996.

Does this paradigm of living the Christian life, pursuing your own joy in the promises of God,

and delighting in him and being a Christian hedonist, fit with Paul's self-identity and Jesus, self-identity,

as a servant, a dololoss of God or of Christ.

And I want to argue that it does because when you take a metaphor like slave master,

you know that there are elements of that metaphor which are intended to be believed in elements that are not.

There are elements about slave master analogies that would be unworthy of a relationship to God.

And so the question is, what element of the analogy slave master does the Bible want us to focus on when it calls us servants or when it calls God our

our master?

Paul said in 1st, Corinthians 1510, I worked harder than any of the other apostles.

Here he is, servant, right?

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