Turning Sadness at Losing Money to Gladness at Gaining Jesus

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Desiring God

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

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

A camel cannot pass through the eye of a needle, nor can we turn our own hearts from loving money to loving Jesus. But what is impossible with man is possible with God.

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0:00.0	Let's pray.
0:05.0	So Father, I'm asking for the working of the impossible,
0:09.0	what is impossible with man,
0:13.0	that you would do because you said you could,
0:17.0	and that you would deliver us from the heart condition
0:22.1	of being sad when we must give our money
0:28.0	in order to have Jesus.
0:32.3	Rather make us glad for that exchange.
0:38.7	And I ask this in his name. Amen.
0:42.9	So I'm going to tell you the main point of the text as I see it,
0:48.3	right out of the chute,
0:50.8	so that as we walk through the text,
0:58.0	you can test it because that's your job.
1:03.0	Luke is inspired. I'm not.
1:09.0	You have Bibles and you have the Holy Spirit, I hope, and as we walk through the text, you should be asking, has Piper got it? Or is he
1:19.3	importing his ideas into the text instead of getting Luke's inspired ideas out of the text, that's your job for
1:30.3	the next 30 minutes or so, which is a big deal. Okay. Main point. God does the humanly impossible to save sinners.
1:49.8	By turning sadness at losing money into gladness at gaining Jesus.
2:01.6	I'll say it again.
2:03.6	I think that's the main point of this entire text.
2:07.6	God does the humanly impossible to save sinners
2:11.6	by turning sadness at losing money into gladness
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