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Messages by Desiring God

The Inexplicable Life: Humility, Hope, and Love in Suffering

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Christians can show the world the hope they have within through joyful, humble willingness to suffer wrong and serve, rather than return evil for evil.

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0:04.0

Let's pray together.

0:07.0

Amen, Lord.

0:11.0

Amen.

0:12.0

Oh, teach us now.

0:16.4

Not just the idea that if we suffer with you, we will reign with you, but teach us the mindset, the emotional

0:30.6

disposition, the readiness of soul to do that, to suffer readily in love, in service, in hope.

0:48.2

Come help me to help me to put now

0:52.2

a little more Bible underneath this hope. I pray.

0:57.2

Keep me faithful to your word.

1:00.4

Make these women expectant and hungry.

1:05.0

Give them a discerning spirit to avoid anything that is amiss.

1:10.0

And a readiness to embrace whatever is true.

1:17.0

I pray this in Jesus' name.

1:21.2

Amen. So I exhort the elders among you as a fellow elder,

1:28.0

and as a witness of the sufferings of Christ,

1:31.0

as well as a participant, a retaker in the glory that is to be revealed.

1:37.0

Shepherd the flock of God that is among you.

1:45.0

Not with compulsion, but eagerly not for shameful gain,

1:57.8

but willingly not domineering over those in your charge,

2:06.3

but being examples to the flock.

2:11.6

And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

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