When I Don’t Desire God (Part 2)

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

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🗓️ 19 August 2005

⏱️ 31 minutes

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If it’s true that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him, then the fight to be happy in God is the most important thing in life.

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0:00.0	There's another relationship between
0:12.0	God's selfexaltation, doing everything for His glory, and our delighting in it.
0:22.2	And the connection is that when we delight in it, we magnify.
0:30.0	This is the closest thing to the heart of the foundation of what I'm saying, that God is most
0:37.1	glorified in you and you are most satisfied in him.
0:40.0	Or to put another way, you glorify what you enjoy.
0:44.0	You glorify what you enjoy.
0:48.6	If you really love something and delight in it
0:51.9	and talk about it because it gives you such pleasure.
0:54.6	You make much of it.
0:56.2	You exalt it.
1:00.1	When God is our deepest pleasure, we display Him as our highest treasure.
1:10.0	Which is not optional. The pursuit of joy is not optional.
1:20.0	Because the pursuit of God's glory is not optional.
1:24.0	The fight for joy, the fight for joy is not
1:30.0	peripheral because God's pursuit of His glory is not peripheral.
1:35.0	As close to the heart of the universe is God's doing everything for His glory,
1:41.0	so close to the heart of Christianity is you're doing everything. everything for joy in God.
1:43.0	Because what you take joy in God.
1:47.0	Because what you take joy in is magnified.
1:51.0	It's not just the things you decide. It's the things you love, want, crave, have
1:59.4	joy in that you magnify. And God made you to magnify him and therefore it cannot be
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