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Messages by Desiring God

Thoughts on Christ, Weakness, Insults, and Homosexuality

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 2011

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

True contentment that is able to weather all kinds of hardship comes from knowing Christ as our surpassing treasure.

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So let me just add my thanks before I jump into where I'm going. It is an amazing thing we are endeavoring to do and we simply couldn't do it without givers who believe in that particular strategy.

0:24.4

So I think the second most common thing I hear when people come up to me and

0:30.4

thank me for things is that it's free.

0:33.8

That's the second.

0:35.4

The first thing is it helps.

0:40.8

And it means a lot when it's somebody in Nepal with no access to anything.

0:46.5

Or somebody with five kids and little resources like the guy that showed up Saturday night a week ago and said I mooched off you for 10 years and now we're

0:56.4

giving a little bit.

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And I said mooch, mooch away. So thank you. So what I'm going to do is take you into my, okay what I need to do, I'm

1:12.1

pushing my button and nothing's happening.

1:15.0

What? I am.

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Baba. I don't have the muscles I guess.

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Okay, that's where we're going.

1:28.5

Thoughts on Christ weakness, insults, and homosexuality.

1:37.4

Front burner from yesterday and what I've done is I've pushed together a front burner issue from my soul and the news of Jamie Rhodadmyar suicide on Monday.

1:46.1

So I see these things on the news and I'm always asking how what we stand for

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relates to everything.

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That's just the way my mind works.

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If something's out there and has the attention of the culture,

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I want, if I can, to bring the supremacy of God in all things together with it.

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