John Piper Quotes - Page 9

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• This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near.

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  Friday, Garden, Done

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• A saving knowledge of Christ crucified and risen is not the mere result of right reasoning about historical facts. It is the result of spiritual illumination to see those facts for what they really are: a revelation of the truth and glory of God in the face of Christ-who is the same yesterday today and forever.

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  Spiritual, Yesterday, Illumination

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• Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically; it is mainly about displaying the covenant-keepin g love between Christ and his church. Knowing Christ is more important than making a living. Treasuring Christ is more important than bearing children. Being united to Christ by faith is a greater source of marital success than perfect sex and double-income prosperity.

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  Sex, Children, Love Is

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• The deepest need that you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what is happening to us is part of the greatest purpose of God in the universe - the glorification of the grace and power of his Son - the grace and power that bore Him to the cross and kept him there until the work of love was done.

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  Adversity, Son, Grace

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• Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.

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  Life Is Too Short, Fighting, Long

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• If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

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  Falling In Love, Doe, Failing

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• Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

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  Unhappy, Delight, Worship

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• The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our conscience rises up and condemns us, where will we turn? We turn to Christ. We turn to the suffering and death of Christ—the blood of Christ. This is the only cleansing agent in the universe that can give the conscience relief in life and peace in death.

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  Blood, Suffering And Death, Giving

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• There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.

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  Jesus, People, Heaven

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• Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here.

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  America, Taught, Aliens

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• Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.

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  Christian, Hurt, Roots

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• I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place.

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  Wrath, Wonder, Mercy

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• The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.

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  Christian, Keys, People

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• So, you have three possibilities in world missions. You can be a goer, a sender, or disobedient. The Bible does not assume that everyone goes. But it does assume that the ones who do not go care about goers and support goers and pray for goers and hold the rope of the goers.

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  Support, Doe, Three

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• It is a myth that man in his natural state is genuinely seeking God. Men do seek God. But they do not seek him for who he is. They seek him in a pinch as one who might preserve them from death or enhance their worldly enjoyments. Apart from conversion, no one comes to the light of God.

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  Men, Light, Might

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• God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.

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  Passion, Names, People

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.62, Baker Academic

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• Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him?

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  Spiritual, Sweet, Promise

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.22, SPCK

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• God has given us prayer as a wartime walkie-talkie so that we can call headquarters for everything we need as the kingdom of Christ advances in the world. Prayer gives us the significance of front-line forces, and gives God the glory of a limitless Provider. The one who gives the power gets the glory. Thus prayer safeguards the supremacy of God in missions while linking us with endless grace for every need.

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  Prayer, Giving, Grace

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.65, Baker Academic

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• The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night.

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  Night, Apples, Pie

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.17, SPCK

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• Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.

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  Jesus, Children, Followers

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.93, SPCK

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• We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

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  Waiting, Made, Righteous

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• The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.

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  Greatness, Self, Joy

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• That's who Jesus Christ is. He became the final Priest and the final Sacrifice. Sinless, he did not offer sacrifices for himself. Immortal, he never has to be replaced. Human, he could bear human sins. Therefore he did not offer sacrifices for himself; he offered himself as the final sacrifice. There will never be the need for another. There is one mediator between us and God. One priest. We need no other. Oh, how happy are those who draw near to God through Christ alone.

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  Jesus, Sacrifice, Finals

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• The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.

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  Prayer, Keys, Use

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• Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.

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  Treasure, Flow, Sin

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