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Messages by Desiring God

Three Meditations on "The Messiah"

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 1988

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The revealing of the Lord’s glory that appeared truly at Christ’s first coming will appear fully at his second coming, and on that day the needy ones who received him as a whole Savior will have unspeakable joy.

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Comfort my people says your God speak tenderly to Jerusalem and cry to her that her

0:08.3

warfare is ended that her iniquity is pardoned that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins.

0:17.0

A voice cries in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord.

0:21.0

Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

0:25.6

Every valley shall be lifted up and every mountain and hill made low.

0:30.6

The uneven ground become level and the rough places a plane.

0:34.0

And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,

0:37.0

and all flesh shall see it together,

0:40.0

for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

0:44.0

The glory of the Lord shall be revealed,

0:46.0

and all flesh shall see it together,

0:48.0

for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

0:51.0

Even though Psalm 19 says that the heavens are telling the glory of God every day. All you have to do is look eastward on a morning like this

1:06.7

to see that song fulfilled. The heavens are declaring the glory of God every day and yet Isaiah says there is coming a day

1:18.1

when the glory of the Lord will be revealed in such a way as it's never been revealed before.

1:27.7

And then he says that what will distinguish the revelation of glory on that day is that all flesh, that is every

1:38.4

single solitary person, will see it together. No more solitary Moses on Mount Sinai saying Lord,

1:51.2

show me your glory.

1:53.4

No more solitary Ezekiel with a wheel and a wheel.

1:57.4

No more solitary, Paul up into the third heaven of ecstasy.

2:02.0

But every single person on the face of the globe together stunned by the

2:07.8

glory revealed from the Lord. Now when's that going to happen? How can that be? It comes from the mouth of

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