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Messages by Desiring God

Suffering: The Path and the Price of World Evangelization

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2001

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The good news of the gospel will indeed make its way to all nations, but it won’t happen without God’s people taking up their crosses and following the Lord Jesus Christ into hard places.

Transcript

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Two or three things by way of preliminary.

0:05.0

I am thankful Matthew Ward that God spared your life.

0:10.0

Be careful. because Basque in those several songs tonight.

0:24.0

Wow.

0:25.0

Thank you, Lord, thank you.

0:27.0

Second, tomorrow night, I won't be here, but if I had to choose the top three people in the universe that I would want to hear preach,

0:45.0

one of them would be Eric Alexander.

0:48.0

You will not want to miss that man's voice and heart and insight into the global purposes of God.

1:00.7

I was on the phone with him to Scotland because he wanted to know what I was going to say so he wouldn't say the same thing.

1:06.0

And so we talked it over and so he will be supplementing and advancing well.

1:12.0

Anything I've been pleased to say. supplementing and advancing well.

1:13.0

Anything I've been pleased to say.

1:15.0

So, be as nice to him as you have been to me, please.

1:20.7

You've been very gracious and I thank you for attending to my words.

1:25.0

And then just to underline what Ray said, I really don't want to take any of those tapes home.

1:32.0

So please get rid of them for us. They are free.

1:38.8

Find them. If you see tapes stacked up out there, that's ours probably. Let's pray.

1:45.0

Now Lord in just a few minutes, a Ray will stand at this microphone and call to the front

2:00.0

those whom you have decisively touched recently or in the past and are stirring to cross a culture with the gospel in missions.

2:17.2

And so I pray that tonight you would move.

2:28.0

And that you would decisively do a calling work. You would make plain what Colosians 124 means for the lives of everybody in this room.

2:37.6

Come and help me.

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