Welcome back on this Thursday, well, if you were to sit down with John Piper's collected

works, his 13 volume collected works published back in 2017, and if you read the entire thing

beginning to end, you'd come across the word satisfy or satisfied nearly 1500 times.

My satisfied, those loaded terms are all over those works, and they're all over your

ministry, Pastor John, but we rarely, if ever, read a definition of what you mean by

the term leading to Ralph's question today.

Pastor John, hello to you.

I thank God for your ministry in my life.

I have read many of your books and listened to many of your messages, especially those on

Christian hedonism, that idea revolutionized my relationship with the Lord.

You have spoken about being satisfied in God, thousands and thousands of times in your

life, but I cannot find any reference in your works to where you have defined that

term to you.

What does it mean to be satisfied?

This is good for me to be pressed to ponder a term that I ordinarily use because I consider

itself explanatory.

Right.

Sometimes those are the very terms that would be most fruitful to at least try to put into

words or to relate to real life experiences so that we don't just speak with empty phrases.

So thank you for the question.

Yeah.

I think the first thing to say is that it doesn't really matter very much what John Piper

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