Why Adam’s Singleness Was Not Good

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

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🗓️ 10 September 2013

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Psalm 73 declares that God’s people desire nothing on earth besides God. Why then was it “not good” that Adam was alone with God?

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0:00.0	I love that question. I love the fact that Chris is asking it because it means that he's
0:22.4	really dealing with what matters, namely, if you have God, what more do you need? That's
0:27.9	a really good question to ask. Who have I in heaven but the on earth? There's nothing that
0:32.2	I desire besides the my flesh and my heart may fail, but you are the strength and my heart
0:36.6	and my portion forever. That's a good question. So what did God mean then when he looks at
0:42.1	man alone, that he is alone with God and says, not good? I love that question. And here's
0:51.7	the answer. The defect, the not goodness lies not in God's insufficiency to be all that the
1:04.2	man needs for his joy. The defect is in the man's inability to see all that God has to show him
1:14.3	and to display all that God's intends for him to display about God. He can't see it all and he
1:23.2	can't show it all until there's another. So take this text from the New Testament as an
1:33.0	illustration. Romans 155, may the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony
1:42.1	with one another in accord with Christ so that you may with one voice glorify the God and
1:52.3	Father of Jesus Christ. That would be impossible if there were one person. Impossible. That you with
1:59.6	one voice, a harmonious people receiving one another, loving one another as I have loved you,
2:06.5	displaying my glory through community. That way, that would be impossible without the other,
2:14.2	which simply now opens the incredibly wide door of what God is up to in creation. It is more
2:24.5	glorious that there be more than one voice to glorify God. It is more glorious that there be a
2:32.6	choir than a solo. More glorious that there be a church than a saint. More glorious that there
2:38.4	be a star team than a star player. More glorious that there be countless colors rather than just
2:45.4	gray. More glorious that there be countless smells than just roses. More glorious that there
2:51.1	be countless textures than just velvet. More glorious that there be a billion galaxies,
2:57.9	not just one or that there be male and female, just male or that there be multiple ethnicities
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