What Do You Love Most About God?

Ask Pastor John

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Unless the Bible informs what we love most about God, we risk imagining a god in our own likeness, rather than treasuring him for who he really is.

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0:00.0	Happy Monday, everybody.
0:06.0	Welcome back.
0:07.0	And thank you for listening to the Ask Pastor John podcast.
0:10.0	Pastor John joins us today remotely over Skype.
0:13.7	Our question today comes from a listener named Sam who lives in Los Angeles.
0:18.2	You sent in a really short question to us, but it's an important one.
0:23.0	Dear Pastor John, what do you love most about God?
0:27.9	That's it.
0:28.9	What do you love most about God?
0:31.8	In a sense to answer this question authentically, I probably ought not to spend any great
0:40.0	times theologizing, right, or studying or doing exegesis or assessing God's attributes.
0:47.2	I ought to simply blurt out, blurt out what I feel about God, what I really treasure about
0:55.0	Him and value and admire.
0:57.9	Wouldn't that be the most authentic answer to the question, what do I love about God
1:03.7	rather than some long studies complicated Philip and APJ theological answer?
1:10.1	And I think the answer to that question is yes, that's right.
1:13.6	So that's where I'll start.
1:15.6	My first most visceral, immediate, heartfelt answer to the question is, I love the grace
1:23.6	of God.
1:24.9	I love the mercy of God.
1:26.6	I love being loved by God.
1:28.7	I love being treated graciously and kindly and patiently by God.
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