The Pastor, the People, and the Pursuit of Joy

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Desiring God

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

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🗓️ 26 February 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Your joy in God multiplies exponentially as you seek the good of your brothers and sisters in the body of Christ.

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0:00.0	One of the reasons that I am honored, glad, privileged to be here for this event of
0:11.9	installation is that it gives me the chance to be a part of
0:16.7	something that is vastly more important than everything happening in Washington, D.C. and I say that with very carefully chosen words because I totally believe it.
0:34.0	Literally, no, no exaggeration.
0:37.0	Literally, no exaggeration, what is going on here is more significant, more important than almost
0:52.0	everything that happens in the federal government, not to mention the state.
0:57.0	36 days ago, Donald Trump was installed as the President of the United States.
1:12.0	Today, Jason Redberg, is installed as the pastor of this church.
1:19.0	Since then, the president has been meeting with people,
1:25.0	most of whom and most of whose influence may be captivating to the media, but who will have little effect on eternity.
1:40.2	And I, for my part, very little interest in doing anything that doesn't have any effect on eternity.
2:01.0	The people of Redeemer are going to meet now week in and week out under the ministry of Jason Redberg are marked in ways that make you far
2:11.6	more significant than most of the people that the president meets with.
2:20.0	There is no other gathering in the world like this gathering of Christian people for worship.
2:30.0	It is unique in the world and you need to feel that at this point in your life.
2:45.0	You are a people of God's own possession.
2:50.0	You were chosen before the foundation of the world to belong to God.
2:58.0	God.
3:00.0	You are destined to become like the son of God.
3:05.0	You were bought with divine blood.
3:10.0	You are acquitted and accepted before the throne of the universe.
3:21.0	You are a new creation on the earth. You are indwell by the spirit of the Creator of the
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