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The Love You’ll Never Get from Hollywood

Ask Pastor John

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2015

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

The love of God in the Bible can sometimes be difficult to understand, like when Jesus lets Lazarus die because he loves him. What is love in a passage like that?

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In a 2011 sermon on John 11 verses 1 to 16, John Piper recounted the story of the raising

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of Lazarus.

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The sermon is titled, This Illness is for the Glory of God.

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In it he explained the love of Christ and how Christ showed his love by letting Lazarus

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die.

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It's a crazy story we need to think about, here's a clip of what John Piper said in

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that 2011 sermon.

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Now let's look at it again so you can see it, verse 5 and 6.

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Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, therefore when he heard that Lazarus

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is ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was and he did not hurry to his

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side because he loved them, because he loved them, he did not go to them.

1:02.3

John and Tins and Jesus and Tins for everyone seeing this to ask, Now how is that love?

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It's okay to ask that, if you don't ask it with a snooty attitude, he expects you to

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ask that, how is it love to let him die?

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I would like you to come, if it were my brother, that's a good question.

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And the answer is very clear in this text, very clear but not common or acceptable without

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the work of the Holy Spirit in your life.

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The key to this, love lets him die because his death will help them see the glory of

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God.

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That's why verse 4 is here.

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This is not about death, this is about the glory of God and the glory of the Son through

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him.

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