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Messages by Desiring God

The Supernatural Act of Reading the Bible

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Whenever we read the Bible, we depend on God’s supernatural power to illumine the words, sentences, and paragraphs with his glory.

Transcript

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The following resource is from desiring God.org.

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Okay, just a reminder.

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So this second session now is, so what is it?

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What is reading the Bible supernaturally?

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And then tomorrow morning we'll be be what is natural reading supernaturally because clearly reading is natural.

0:18.0

Like unbeliever will do it all the time.

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And what we it supernatural?

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So back to the goal, the Bible itself shows

0:31.0

that our ultimate goal in reading the Bible is that God's infinite worth and beauty

0:36.5

would be exalted in everlasting white-hot worship of the blood-bought bride from every people tongue and tribe and nation.

0:45.8

Now if that's, if we made a case that that's the big ultimate goal of encountering

0:52.2

God in His Word, the implication is going to be,

0:57.0

well then this reading must be supernatural, but let me go backwards and sum it up.

1:03.4

I'll just sum up where we've been, and it'll be obvious then

1:06.2

why it must be supernatural, and then we'll talk about what in the world is that.

1:11.6

One, since the ultimate purpose... What in the world is that?

1:13.3

One, since the ultimate purpose of God

1:15.8

is to be enjoyed and exalted in white-hot worship

1:20.8

of a beautiful bride, a beautiful bride, a holy bride, then God's people must inwardly be

1:28.6

transformed from glory to glory. So I'm going backwards now. Going backwards from where to glory. So that I'm going backwards from where we went this morning

1:35.2

there's one two three four five I'm one I'm going backwards. If if they

1:38.7

must be transformed now number two this transformation happens by savoring the glory of the Lord Jesus,

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