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The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven it is a way to get people to God.
John Piper
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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
John Stephen Piper
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Not grace to bar what is not bliss, Nor flight from all distress, but this: The grace that orders our trouble and pain, And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.
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It has to do with seeing God. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).
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Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.
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It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and abortion is the result.
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Life and death! They seem like complete opposites-at great enmity with each other. But for Paul-and for all who share his faith-there is a unity, because the same great passion is fulfilled in both-namely, that Christ be magnified in this body-our bodies-whether by life or by death.
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The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.
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The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving. That's what God did. At the loss of His Son's life to the totally undeserving, God gave the best gift - the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.
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God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.
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Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises
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Grace is power, not just pardon.
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To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.
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Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.
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O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.
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So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.
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Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.
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In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).
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If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.
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Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.
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Why does God bless us with abundance? So we can have enough to live on and then use the rest for all manner of good works that alleviate spiritual and physical misery. Enough for us abundance for others.
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Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
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