The Pleasures of God, Part 1

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

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🗓️ 12 October 2007

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

God has eternally enjoyed himself as Trinity and creates us to make his glory go on public display that we may be satisfied in him forever.

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0:00.0	The following resource is from desiring God.org.
0:04.0	Let's pray together one more time.
0:07.0	Father, I want to thank you for conceiving of a creation that included conscious human beings who could
0:20.8	know you and love you.
0:24.2	And thank you for choosing us for yourself
0:27.0	and creating us.
0:30.1	Thank you for drawing us to yourself and effectually calling us out of deadness and darkness
0:38.0	into your marvelous light. Thank you for justifying us through the blood of Jesus. Thank you for sending
0:48.6	him so that he would live and die and rise again and reign and intercede on our behalf. Thank you for
1:00.1	forgiving all of our sins. Thank you for the hope of everlasting life.
1:06.3	Thank you for the ministry of the word. Thank you for the Bible. Thank you for the
1:10.4	church. Thank you for this church, Lord, that opens its arms to us.
1:15.7	Thank you for these brothers and sisters gathered from so many places to think hard with me
1:22.2	about the pleasures of your soul.
1:27.1	My heart is brimming with gratitude tonight,
1:32.4	and I bless you for these gifts and I praise you for your infinite worthiness.
1:39.0	You are great beyond words.
1:43.9	Oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God.
1:48.8	How inscrutable are his judgments.
1:55.0	judgment.
1:56.7	So Lord, we stand before great mysteries and yet we have a book
2:02.2	and you have given us minds and you have endowed us with the spirit and you call us to
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