Willing God’s Will as a Way of Knowing Christ’s Word

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

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🗓️ 14 February 2011

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

You can’t know Jesus until your will is to do God’s will. And God’s will is to make much of himself.

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0:00.0	The following resource is from desiring God.org.
0:04.0	Let's pray.
0:07.0	What a weighty word, Lord.
0:12.0	Don't judge by... What a weighty word, Lord.
0:16.0	Don't judge by appearances.
0:20.0	Judge with a righteous judgment.
0:27.6	The brothers had judged by appearances, the crowds had judged by appearances.
0:35.0	So God grant that we here would not judge by appearances. We wouldn't think on the surface of things.
0:39.3	We see through deeds and see through words.
0:46.6	To the heart of things, to the reality of things.
0:49.6	We don't want to be a shell-gazing people. You want to get to the heart of the matter. So work now in this room, I pray.
1:02.0	Grant me to see. So work now in this room I pray.
1:03.0	Grant me to see truth and to speak truth.
1:08.0	Forbid that I would want to seek my own glory and not the glory of him who sent me.
1:17.0	And so proved to be a false prophet in the end.
1:22.0	Oh God grant that your people would so love your glory that they
1:30.0	would be a God exalting people rather than a self-exalting people and so have within them
1:36.9	the moral grounds for knowing Jesus.
1:39.8	I ask this now in his great name, Amen.
1:48.0	This is the second time now, we're going through this text.
2:00.9	The title of the message will tip you off to where the focus will be in this message. The title is God's willing God's will as a way of knowing Christ's
2:07.2	word which you can see comes from verse 17. If anyone's will is to do God's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God.
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