What Do Christians Care About (Most)? To the Class of 2019

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🗓️ 17 May 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Christians care about all injustice in our fallen world. But our outrage against wrongdoing will fizzle out unless we root our concern in God himself. We care especially about injustice against God. John Piper preached this message at the 2019 Bethlehem College and Seminary commencement.

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0:00.0	The following resource is from desiring God.org.
0:07.0	Father in heaven, what do we have that we have not received in in the next 15 20 minutes.
0:17.6	What will we have but what we receive by grace?
0:23.0	Thank you for Christina, thank you for Marco,
0:26.5	thank you for the students they represent,
0:28.8	thank you for the parents, the spouses,
0:32.2	the families, the donors, the church. the And we look away now from I look away from myself and ask for your help so that in this moment
0:47.8	someone in this room will be born of God. They don't even know what it means. And that others would be made strong for
1:00.6	the living of a Christ exulting life. I ask this in Jesus name, amen. I have two
1:06.3	sentences that I want to commend to you as biblical and true and crucial, beautiful, precious, and my persuasion is that if you
1:20.3	treasure these two sentences and embrace them, are unashamed of them, they will have three
1:29.4	lasting powerful effects upon your life. Effect number one, they will help you be formed decisively
1:40.8	by scripture instead of culture. decisively by
1:43.0	instead of culture,
1:45.0	too.
1:47.0	they will help you clarify how it is
1:50.0	that Christians are of use to the world
1:53.4	by being so amazingly different from the world.
2:00.2	Three, they will help you keep God supreme, and Christ crucial at the forefront of your life, not
2:09.7	backgrounded, so that nobody can see.
2:15.4	Both of these sentences are designed to prick the consciences
2:20.5	of one group of Christians and to call out the unbelief of another group of Christians.
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