The following message is by pastor John Piper.

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Thank you very much. It's an honor to be here.

I've had a good time with Mark already this morning and I like him.

I hadn't met him before and that's

important to me. He has some of the same burdens that I do and let's pray together.

The glory of the Lord will be revealed and all flesh will see it together for the

mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Lord we want more than anything in the world for your name to be exalted in this city and around the world.

You want there to be a passion for your supremacy in all things, for the joy of all peoples through

Jesus Christ, your divine son. You want there to be a Divine Son.

You want there to be a readiness to die for Christ.

Want there to be a passion to follow him so closely that if we're called to suffer, we'll suffer.

We don't want to play games at church.

We don't want to be trendy.

We want to be deep, real, authentic, Christ exulting, Bible saturated, people loving, nation reaching.

So Lord, come and help me in my little part here to be faithful to your word, to be submitted to Christ, to be self forgetful as I'm entranced with

him. Let that miracle happen, I pray. It's draw near and be on us so that the transaction here is really powerful

for your great namesake. We ask in Christ's name, Amen.

One of the advantages of being in a church for 25 years or so is that the mission of the church and the mission of the pastor tend to become one.

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