The following message is by pastor John Piper. More information from desiring God is available at

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D. D. D. D.O.G. Thank you so much for coming, and you're welcome.

I would like to pray one more time and ask for God's help, so would you do that with me?

Father if we walk out of here in an hour or so and and I'm in pulls a knife on us and takes our wallet like we read about on NPR website today.

I mean we do what Mr Diaz did and offer him our coat because it might be chilly as he

robs people the rest of the night and blow him away for Christ.

Or if we get home and feel some awful strange jagging pain and tomorrow the doctor tells us it's very serious. I pray that we wouldn't waste our cancer.

So Father, I pray that whatever will befall us in these next hours that we wouldn't waste it.

You write the script, Grant, that we would respond in a way that makes Jesus look more valuable than our wallets

and more valuable than our health.

So, draw near now I pray and grant me your help.

I ask this in Jesus name, Amen.

So why do we do these regional conferences? We do a couple of these a year. We'll go to Austin I think this fall

Austin Texas and talk about Job. Here's the reason. This is 1st John 1. That which we have seen and heard we proclaim to you so that your fellowship might be with us and our fellowship is with the father and with the

son.

I write these things to you or I visit you and I speak to you in order that my joy might be full.

So there it is. I'm coming to make me happy. I'm coming to be happy. Now if that sounds selfish to you. Ask yourself this question. Do I feel more loved when somebody tries to help me flourish because it makes them happy to make me flourish, or do I feel more loved when somebody tries to help me flourish because there's a law that says they're supposed to and they're doing their moral duty. A woman is in the hospital, just flesh this out just a little more.

A woman is in the hospital, she's old, I use old people because they,

they always respond this way. Young people tend not to, you should learn from old people like this.

Old people, I get the call that Ellen is in the hospital and it's serious. They don't know what it is. They rushed her in there and she's 80 and and so I go not altogether enthusiastic I was playing with my little girl it's

playtime and praying all the way there that the Lord would change my heart,

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