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Messages by Desiring God

The Path to Full and Lasting Pleasure

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Psalm 16 gives us some of the clearest, most powerful words about our greatest happiness.

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Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge, I say to the Lord, you are my Lord, I have no good

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apart from you.

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As for the Saints in the Land, they are the noble in whom is Almighty Light.

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Those who choose another God multiply their sorrows.

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Their libations of blood I will not pour out or take their names upon my lips.

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The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup.

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You hold my lot. The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Indeed, I have a beautiful

0:50.7

inheritance. I bless the Lord who gives me counsel. In the night also my heart

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instructs me because you are right at my right hand I shall not be moved.

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Therefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices and my whole body dwells secure

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for you do not give me up to shield or let your godly one see the pit.

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You show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. So if you have a Bible or a

1:31.2

phone with a Bible on it or an iPad with a Bible on it, I want you to open it to Psalm 16, which I just recited.

1:41.0

We'll have some of it on the screen up here, but if you can follow it on your

1:46.2

own, I think it will make more of an impact because we're going to look at this Psalm in great detail for the next hour.

1:55.9

Let me set the table for you before I pray

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and ask God to come and do mighty things among us.

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And the reason I feel in anticipation that he's going to do

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remarkable things is because the way he has set up this evening. So two weeks ago

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I was in the boundary waters in northern Minnesota fishing with my son and six others.

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And one of those others was a 20-year colleague

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