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Messages by Desiring God

The Full Assurance of Hope

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 1992

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

If second things become first things, we may have a rigorous religion, but we will not have evangelical, God-centered, biblical Christianity.

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Last week we focused in on verse 10, those of you who were here, will remember.

0:08.5

Let me summarize that message in four things that we saw. Number one, we saw in verse 10 that serving the Saints

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or encouraging each other, encouraging each other,

0:25.0

strengthening each other, encouraging each other,

0:29.0

being there for each other, serving the Saints

0:32.0

flows from loving the name of God. You see that right there in the

0:37.9

verse, love which you showed toward his name in serving the Saints. So service to the Saints is a word of expressing

0:47.5

love to the name of God. That's the first thing we saw. Second, we saw that God will never forget love shown to his name in the service of the Saints.

1:02.0

He will never forget him. God will not overlook the love you showed

1:08.9

toward his name in serving the Saints. The smallest thing you do, I said, even if nobody on Earth knows about

1:19.4

it, for somebody else in the name of God will never be forgotten by God and will come back on

1:29.1

you for blessing.

1:32.1

Third, we saw that God's commitment to remember you because of your love to his name is rooted in his justice.

1:45.0

You see that?

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God is not unjust so as to forget the love you showed to his name.

1:53.7

And finally, we saw that the reason,

1:58.2

the justice of God is the foundation of his not

2:02.1

forgetting you when you love his name is because the meaning of justice in relation to God is his unswerving allegiance to uphold the worth and the glory and the honor of his name.

2:19.0

That's what justice means. God's justice means.

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God's justice consists in his unswerving allegiance to uphold the worth and the honor and the glory of his name.

2:35.0

Therefore, whenever we love his name and do anything in his name,

2:41.0

he would be unjust to forget it and he won't because he's not unjust.

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