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• Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.

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  Running, Long, Waiting

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• God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and He never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going bad that does not mean God has stopped doing good. It means He is shifting things around to get them in place for more good, if you will go on loving Him.

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  Children, Mean, Age

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.181, Multnomah

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• Satan's aim is to destroy our joy and trust and delight in God, and to make God look worthless in the world's eyes. Everytime someone forsakes God for the world, gets angry at God when part of the world is taken away from them, they highlight the world as valuable... and everytime someone stays with God, when the world is taken away, and praises God, they highlight the value and glory of God.

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  Faith, Religious, Taken

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• The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.

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  Christian, Keys, Promise

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• Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

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  Tunnels, Way Forward, Waiting

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• If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.

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  Passion, Unifying, Satisfying

  John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

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• You can't praise what you don't prize.

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  Praise, Prize

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.1, Multnomah

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• The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!

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  Jesus, Events, Way

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• Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.

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  Gratitude, Kindness, Heart

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• God took the record of all your sins-all your sexual failures-that made you a debtor to wrath, and instead of holding them up in front of your face and using them as the warrant to send you to hell, he put them in the palm of his Son’s hand and nailed them to the cross.

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  Son, Hands, Wrath

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• Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things.

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  Heart, Mean, Thinking

  John Piper (2013). “Think”, p.86, SPCK

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• The suffering of sickness and the suffering of persecution have this in common: they are both intended by Satan for the destruction of our faith, and governed by God for the purifying of our faith... Christ sovereignly accomplishes His loving, purifying purpose, by overruling Satan's destructive attempts. Satan is always aiming to destroy our faith; but Christ magnifies His power in weakness.

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  Suffering, Weakness, Purpose

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• Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.

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  People, Joy, Heaven

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• Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

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  Tragedy, Christ, Wasted Life

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• If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

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  Children, Comfort, Wealth

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• Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.

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  Husband, Responsibility, Home

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.56, SPCK

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• You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.

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  Needs

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• The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.

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  Jesus, Differences, Forever

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• God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.

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  Suicide, Evil, Overcoming

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• The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship.

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  Worship, Intensity, Immensity

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• The assurance of the believer is not that God will save him even if he stops believing, but that God will keep him believing--God will sustain you in faith, he will make your hope firm and stable to the end. He will cause you to persevere.

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  Believe, Causes, Persevere

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• If God were not just, there would be no demand for his Son to suffer and die. And if God were not loving, there would be no willingness for his Son to suffer and die. But God is both just and loving. Therefore his love is willing to meet the demands of his justice.

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  Son, Love Is, Justice

  John Piper (2005). “For Your Joy”

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• May we catch enough of a vision of Christ that we will not be satisfied unless we know him more fully.

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  Vision, May, Christ

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• What is God looking for in the world? Assistants? No.
  The gospel is not a help-wanted ad. It is a help-available ad. God is not looking for people to work for Him but people who let Him work mightily in and through them.

  John Piper

  People, World, Assistants

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.56, B&H Publishing Group

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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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  Promise, Looks, Crosses

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