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Ask Pastor John

What’s the Last Thing You Would Tweet?

Ask Pastor John

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

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Jesus, God’s Son, died in the place of sinners and rose so that all who love him supremely might be forgiven all and have eternal joy in God.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to a new week on the Ask Pastor John podcast.

0:06.4

Pastor John, here's the question.

0:09.6

What do you want to be as your final words on Twitter, and 140 characters, Brittany writes

0:16.3

in to ask it, Dear Pastor John, if you could say one last thing to this world, what would

0:20.7

your message be to us?

0:22.4

In other words, what is the one sentence message, the one last tweet that is the most important

0:27.9

thing we need to hear from you and why?

0:30.8

I took Brittany seriously when she suggested it be one last tweet.

0:35.6

So here's my 140 character, exactly, final tweet.

0:44.4

The most important thing I think the world needs to hear, tweet size, goes like this.

0:52.2

And I had to drop a comma, frankly, too.

0:57.0

But you can't, you can't see that.

0:58.5

So it doesn't really know.

0:59.5

This is 140 characters, including one common, one period.

1:04.8

Jesus, God's Son, died in the place of sinners and rose so that all who love Him supremely

1:16.6

might be forgiven all and have eternal joy in God.

1:23.3

Now I thought about saying instead, read your Bibles and pray for insight, because there

1:32.5

is so much that needs to be known about God that cannot be put into one sentence.

1:41.5

And the only reliable source for all that needs to be known is the Bible.

1:47.0

So maybe the most important thing to do is not to try to sum up the Bible in 140 characters,

1:53.9

but to cry out to the world, go read, go read, go read, pray as you read so that you see

2:01.1

everything that's there, maybe that's the most important thing to say.

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