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Messages by Desiring God

The Triumph of the Gospel in the New Heavens and the New Earth

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2008

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Death and decay won’t have the last word. One day soon, God will release all of creation from corruption.

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0:00.0

Before I launch into where I'm going, let me try to say what I feel like the Lord is doing.

0:07.0

I didn't hear all the conference talks, but I've heard enough and I know enough about heaven and hell and cross that I think I can sum up in about three or four minutes here.

0:20.0

What I think the main message is that we're all about here and I might just decide to sit down after that we'll see I really don't want to detract from what you just heard

0:31.6

there are four ways that you can measure the love of God in Christ heard in the scream of the damned. Four

0:43.8

ways to measure. Number one, you measure love by the magnitude of the evil from which the beloved

0:54.0

is rescued. That's one way. And that is hell,

0:59.0

and that is infinite. Second, you measure love by the magnitude of the guilt or the ill desert that you had to overcome to love the beloved.

1:19.4

In other words, the greatness of how much they don't deserve is a measure of the love you have

1:27.1

when in spite of it it you die for them.

1:30.3

That's the second way you measure and our ill desert was infinite.

1:36.3

The third way you measure the love of God behind the scream of the damned is the depth,

1:43.3

extent of the suffering of the act of love itself, which we just

1:49.7

heard about, and that was infinite.

1:53.1

And the third way that you measure the extent of the love behind the scream of the

1:58.8

damned is the magnitude of the gift obtained in the suffering

2:04.5

for you. And that is heaven and that is infinite. I think those are the four ways by which we measure

2:13.2

how we are loved in any circumstance.

2:19.4

And all four of them are infinite, and they all point to the infinite value of the scream

2:26.8

of the damned.

2:29.0

Now it's bigger than this.

2:31.8

And the quote you just heard from spectacular sins is my effort to get at it

2:36.4

hell exists

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