The Whole Glory of the Gospel of God

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

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🗓️ 10 November 2004

⏱️ 93 minutes

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All the glorious benefits of the gospel, such as forgiveness of sins, eternal life, and triumph over the powers of darkness, are not the highest good of the gospel but a means to enjoying God himself.

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0:00.0	The following message is by pastor John Piper.
0:03.5	More information from Desiring God is available at
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0:08.5	D. Desiring God. O'R G.
0:18.0	Let's pray together. Gracious Father, I asked that you would come now and reveal yourself to be the highest and
0:31.0	greatest and most satisfying and most valuable. highest and
0:35.0	highest and greatest and most valuable treasure in the universe.
0:38.0	And having revealed yourself to be that, would you so sovereignly work in hearts that cannot
0:48.1	fathom that, feel that, treasure that can work a change
0:54.0	so that we treasure you above all that the earth can give.
1:02.0	All the that the earth can give.
1:03.0	All the sins that the earth can give
1:07.0	and all the goodness that the earth can give.
1:11.0	I pray that we would treasure you above all and that in our
1:15.9	treasuring you above all through Jesus Christ you would be magnified so that the world would see that there is
1:29.8	a treasure hidden in a field and that it's worth selling everything to have.
1:39.6	So come and create that kind of treasuring now in this place I ask in Jesus name.
1:46.0	Amen.
1:47.0	If I had to do the title over again for tonight than the one I gave a month or so ago,
1:58.0	it would be called God is the Gospel.
2:00.0	I'd really like to write a book by that title someday and I think I will if God gives me
2:06.2	grace God is the gospel. The title I gave was The Whole Glory of the Gospel of God from Him, through Him and to Him.
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