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Messages by Desiring God

The Ultimate Goal 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

🗓️ 23 September 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The Bible is indispensable to the Christian life. Without the written word, we simply could not know the Incarnate Word.

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So earlier this year, Crossway published the book A Peculiar Glory that I talked about last time I was in Skamania and the

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subtitle of that book is how the Christian scriptures reveal or show themselves to be the be completely true

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and the thesis of that book is that since the Bible is inspired by God and since being inspired

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it is therefore the word of God, therefore it will

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it will radiate or communicate or express, reveal,

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open, the glory of God in such a way that those who are not spiritually blind

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will be able to see the self-authenticating evidences that this is the very word of God.

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That's a thesis of that book.

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And I promised at the end of that book that if that's true, then it carries enormous

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implications for how you would read the Bible and that a second book would be necessary. And I finished that in March and I

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think just last week Amazon put the cover up for pre-order and to be out next April

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call reading the Bible supernaturally and that's what we're going to spend three sessions

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on. So I'm going to summarize going to spend three sessions on.

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So I'm going to summarize that book in three sessions with you

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so you don't have to buy the book.

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You'll have the essence of it.

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Although there is a fourth session needed,

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but we only have three, so we'll do it in three

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the best we can.

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When I came to the end of that book, it was obvious to me that if the Bible authenticates itself

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by a revelation of the peculiar glory of God

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