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Messages by Desiring God

What Is It Like to ‘Know Christ’?

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

David Mathis | The Christian life has one final aim: to know and enjoy Jesus. He justified us to know him, we daily press on to know him more, and one day we will know him fully and forever.

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I wonder if you remember your first conscious favorite song as a child.

0:08.0

Maybe it's a specific tune or maybe it's an album or a specific artist.

0:16.3

I remember as a kid, somewhere at age four or five in there.

0:22.6

I remember hearing this particular song

0:25.0

on the radio several times and beginning

0:28.0

to formulate this opinion and then say out loud to my parents, that's my favorite song.

0:38.0

I'm weird in this way.

0:38.7

I remember my first favorite song.

0:41.4

Now I realize I'm one of the older people in the room, like 90th percentile and

0:48.9

above in age. So I will ask and I don't expect many to raise their hands.

0:55.0

But as anybody here know the name Larnell Harris.

0:59.0

You ever heard the name Larnell Harris?

1:02.0

All right, we got a few.

1:05.2

Gospel singer, Larn L Harris.

1:09.0

Hands down, Larn L Harris was my favorite singer in the mid-80s when I was five, six years old.

1:19.0

And in January of 1985, this is 30 years before we planned the city's church, in the same month

1:29.2

when Lionel Ritchie and Michael Jackson are writing the song We Are the World and recording it with

1:34.2

40 other pop artists.

1:37.8

Lauren L Harris released an album.

1:42.2

It was called I've just seen Jesus.

1:45.0

Famous solo is Sandy Patty by that name.

1:48.0

Sandy Patty, there's another name.

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