To Die Is Gain: How Suffering Magnifies Christ
Light + Truth
Desiring God
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Keep on walking into the fire. |
| 0:08.4 | Keep on walking into the flame. |
| 0:10.3 | Keep on walking into the prisons. |
| 0:12.3 | Keep on walking into the swords. |
| 0:14.9 | It's the only way it's going to get done. |
| 0:17.0 | Paul did it. |
| 0:17.9 | Walked into the synagogues, walked into the prisons, |
| 0:23.6 | walked into the persecution over and over again. |
| 0:25.6 | Because therein will two things happen. |
| 0:28.6 | Christ will be magnified because He will be seen to be your game. |
| 0:34.6 | If someone asked you, what would it take to make suffering worth it? |
| 0:40.2 | How would you answer? |
| 0:41.7 | Piper's answer is one word, Christ. |
| 0:45.3 | I'm Dan Kroover. |
| 0:46.8 | In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper takes us into the Apostle Paul's mindset |
| 0:52.7 | to show how joy in Jesus gives suffering eternal meaning. |
| 0:57.0 | This message was originally delivered in Wheaton, Illinois at the Act 3 Reformation Conference |
| 1:03.0 | on October 30, 1999. |
| 1:06.0 | Philippians chapter one. |
| 1:14.1 | This text is right at the center of my thinking in these recent months and years |
| 1:18.7 | because it has become the centerpiece of my quest for joy in God and the honor of God. |
| 1:28.4 | Let's start maybe at verse 19 of chapter 1. |
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