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Desiring God

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

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🗓️ 7 March 2008

⏱️ 43 minutes

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John Piper | The doctrines of grace are not meant to be used for starting arguments, but for worship and survival in an embattled life of faith.

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0:00.0	The following message is by pastor John Piper.
0:04.0	More information from desiring God is available at
0:07.0	W.W.
0:09.0	Desiring God.
0:11.0	O. R. G.
0:12.0	Father in him God dot O-R-G.
0:18.0	Father in heaven, I'm not the only one here who needs your help.
0:22.0	We all need it. We need it because hearts by nature are not wired to love the truth, but to love error, error, the kind of error that exalts us and minimizes you. But when we were born again, we were given a new inclination. And I pray that that new
0:49.2	inclination would flourish here and that we would all be eager and hungry to hear truth and
0:58.5	we would see it when we have it proclaimed to us when we have it proclaimed to us, when we find it in your word, that you would humble us,
1:10.0	that you would incline us to your testimonies and not to getting gain,
1:16.3	that you would open the eyes of our hearts to see what's really there and
1:21.5	wonderful things in your scriptures that you would unite our heart to fear your name,
1:27.0	that you would satisfy us in this seminar with your steadfast love as it's revealed in the scriptures.
1:40.0	Lord, we live in a world that is very God minimizing and God ignoring and God
1:48.0	reshaping and reconceiving and God denying.
1:53.0	And here we are about to talk about some of the most
1:56.0	magnificently God-centered, God-exalting things in the universe.
2:02.0	And therefore, most of what has fed into our lives in these years
2:07.5	has not prepared us for this moment. Your spirit will and so we ask him to come.
2:17.0	Come, Holy Spirit.
2:20.0	Be our teacher. Help me to be faithful to your word, Father. I ask this in Jesus
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