Why Did God Choose You? The Goal and Ground of His Election

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

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🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Why did God set his saving love on his people before the foundation of the world? So that we might praise the glory of his sovereign grace.

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0:00.0	Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
0:04.0	who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
0:11.0	even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world,
0:17.0	that we should be holy and blameless before him.
0:29.0	In love, he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ,
0:31.8	according to the purpose of His will,
0:36.2	to the praise of the glory of His grace,
0:42.4	which He has blessed us, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
0:55.5	In Him, we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, which he lavished upon us in all wisdom and insight, making known to us the mystery of His will according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us in all wisdom and insight,
1:01.4	making known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure or the purpose with which he set forth in Christ, as a plan for the fullness of time to unite all things in Him,
1:10.2	things in heaven and things on the earth.
1:13.4	In Him, we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of
1:21.5	him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might
1:31.3	be to the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of
1:39.0	your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
1:47.0	who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it to the praise of His glory.
1:56.0	Now before I pray again, let me say something from Chapter 1, encouraging and guiding to the way I want to pray for you and me.
2:12.3	Ephesians 1, 3 to 14, what we just read is the most concentrated, exalted, weighty description of God's purpose
2:24.2	in the universe in the Bible, from eternity to eternity. It's the kind of writing that stretches
2:31.8	the mind to the breaking point.
2:37.8	It takes us back before creation, the creation of everything, into the mind of God.
2:47.0	Absolute reality. And it beckons us wonder of wonders it beckons us to understand
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