What We Were Made For

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

All the other gifts of the gospel — forgiveness, justification, propitiation, eternal life — exist to make fellowship with God possible.

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0:00.0	August 15th, what we were made for.
0:05.7	Christ suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous,
0:11.1	that He might bring us to God, 1 Peter 3, 18.
0:17.2	The greatest good of the good news, the gospel,
0:22.1	is the enjoyment of fellowship with God Himself.
0:29.2	This is made explicit here in 1 Peter 3, 18 in the phrase,
0:34.4	that He might bring us to God.
0:41.7	That's why Jesus died.
0:46.0	All the other gifts of the gospel exist to make this one possible.
0:54.7	We are forgiven so that our guilt does not keep us away from God.
1:00.9	We are justified so that our condemnation does not keep us away from God.
1:08.0	God is propitiated so that His wrath doesn't stand between us and God as our Father.
1:16.3	We are given eternal life now with new bodies in the resurrection
1:21.7	so that we have the capacities for being with God forever and enjoying God to the fullest.
1:30.2	Test your heart. Why do you want forgiveness?
1:36.7	Why do you want to be justified?
1:40.4	Why do you want the wrath of God to be propitiated?
1:44.7	Why do you want eternal life?
1:48.5	Is the decisive answer because I want to enjoy God now and forever?
1:58.9	The gospel love that God gives us is ultimately the gift of Himself.
2:09.8	This is what we were made for.
2:13.4	This is what we lost because of our sin.
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