The Pleasure of God in the Good of His People

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Desiring God

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

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🗓️ 1 March 1987

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

God does not do you good out of some constraint or coercion. He is free! And in his freedom he overflows in joy to do you good.

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0:00.0	The text for this morning sermon comes from the book of Zephania Chapter 3,
0:17.0	Vaphanaya Chapter 3,
0:19.4	Vours 14 through 20.
0:21.4	Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion!
0:26.6	Shout, O Israel!
0:28.2	Rejoys and exalt with all your heart,
0:30.3	O daughter of Jerusalem! The Lord has taken away the judgments against you. He has cast out
0:37.1	your enemies. The King of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst. You shall fear evil no more. On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem,
0:47.0	Do not fear, O Zion. Let not your hands grow weak. The Lord, your God is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory.
0:57.0	He will rejoice over you with gladness. He will renew you in his love. He will exalt over you with loud singing as on a day of festival.
1:07.0	I will remove disaster from you so that you will not bear reproach for it.
1:12.0	Behold, at that time I will deal with all your oppressors,
1:16.4	and I will save the lame and gather the outcast,
1:20.3	and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.
1:25.0	At that time, I will bring you home.
1:29.0	At the time when I gather you together,
1:31.0	yay, I will make you renowned and praised among all the peoples of the earth,
1:35.9	when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says the Lord.
1:45.0	According to Zephania Chapter 1, verse 1,
1:50.0	the word of the Lord came to Zephania, the son of Kushai, in the days of Josiah, the son of Ammon, king of Judah.
2:05.0	Josiah, remember him?
2:08.0	He reigned beginning about 80 years after the destruction of the Northern Kingdom by the nation of
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