John Piper Quotes - Page 10

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• There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.

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  Christian, Kings, Children

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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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• People are not prepared or able to rejoice in suffering unless they experience a massive biblical revolution of how they think and feel about the meaning of life. Human nature and American culture make it impossible to rejoice in suffering. This is a miracle in the human soul wrought by God through His Word.

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  Biblical, Thinking, People

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• Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

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  Christian Inspirational, Car, Want

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• Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.

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  Religious, Religion, Records

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• The missionary question is not, 'Where are there unbelievers?' and then send a missionary there. There are unbelievers everywhere! The missionary question is, 'Where are there people's who don't have any Christians in them or don't have a church strong enough to do the neighbor evangelism that we can do if we just want to do it?' That's the missionary question.

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  Christian, Strong, People

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• Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.

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  Roots, Grace, Cost

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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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• So the main question is not, Which humans brought about the death of Jesus but, What did the death of Jesus bring about for humans - including Jews and Muslims and Buddhists and Hindus and nonreligious secularists - and all people everywhere?When it is all said and done, the most crucial question is: Why? Why did Christ suffer and die? Not why in the sense of cause, but why in the sense of purpose?

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  Friday, Buddhist, Jesus

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• Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more to be desired than life itself (Psalm 63:3). Which means that the power of sin's promise is broken by the power of God's.

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  Believe, Mean, Heart

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

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• Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.

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  Views, Giving, Promise

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• The Gospel is not a picture of adoption, adoption is a picture of the Gospel.

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  Adoption

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• There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.

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  Christian, Men, Two

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• There is a warning. The path of God-exalting joy will cost you your life. Jesus said, “Whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.” In other words, it is better to lose your life than to waste it. If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full. This is not a book about how to avoid a wounded life, but how to avoid a wasted life. Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

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  Jesus, Book, Joy

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• Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness to suffer for his wife's good without threatening or abusing her. This includes suffering to protect her from any outside forces that would harm her, as well as suffering disappointments of abuses even from her. This kind of love is possible because Christ died for both husband and wife. Their sins are forgiven. Neither needs to make the other suffer for sins. Christ has borne that suffering. Now as two sinful and forgiven people we can return good for evil.

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  Disappointment, Husband, Love Is

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• What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

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  Christian, Notes, Made

  John Piper (2013). “Think”, p.151, 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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• Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God

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  Christian, Roots, Fasting

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• Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.

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  Spiritual, Mean, Knowing

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry, Updated and Expanded Edition”, p.17, B&H Publishing Group

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• When I pray for revival I pray first for the most radical thing: The utter devotion and allegiance of your hearts to Christ. That you would love Him so deeply and long for Him so passionately that His coming would be your great hope, and death would be gain, and life would be for Christ and His kingdom.

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  Heart, Long, Would Be

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• God without Christ is no God.

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  Christ

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• When you are deeply peaceful and confident that, because of Christ, God will bring you safely to his eternal kingdom and be the all-satisfying Treasure of your life forever, then you are free to see the truth, and love the truth, and speak the truth no matter what, and joyfully spread a passion for the truth whose name is Jesus.

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  Jesus, Passion, Names

  John Piper (2013). “Think”, p.108, SPCK

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• All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and his Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man.... When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever.

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  Fall, Moving, Son

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• I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

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  Writing, Preacher, Knows

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• The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to God’s glory is not scholarship but insurrection.

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  Christian, Writing, Biblical

  John Piper (2013). “Think”, p.20, SPCK

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