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• Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

  John Piper

  Grace, Enabling, Sin

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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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• The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.

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  And Love, Spirit, Knows

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.148, Multnomah

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• Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.

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  Sleep, Thinking, Bed

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• Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.

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  Mean, Past, Thinking

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• And in these last hours, the lifetime of this year passes before my eyes, and I face the inevitable question: Did I live it well? Will Jesus Christ, the righteous judge, say “Well done, good and faithful servant”?

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  Jesus, Eye, Years

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• The Gospel is not how people get to heaven.
  The Gospel is how people get to God.

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  People, Heaven

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• But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.

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  Christian, Inspiration, Passion

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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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• I've never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have heard many saints say every significant advance I've ever made in grasping in the depth of God's love and growing deep with Him, have come through suffering.

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  Life Lesson, Suffering, Depth

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• God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.

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  Three, May

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• Do not be more devoted to your own brain than you are to the Bible.

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  Brain, Devoted

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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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• God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but him.

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  Worst, Thousand

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• Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.

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  Christian, Humility, Grace

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• Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy

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  Prayer, Needs, Helping

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.161, Multnomah

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• O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.

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  Wonder, Ends, Capacity

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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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  Grace, Drink, Easier

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• What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?

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  Voice, Ears, Privilege

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• The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?

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  Our Generation, Leisure Activities, Heaven

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• We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody

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  Love, Knows, Meant To Be

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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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• It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

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  Waste, Theology, Wasted Life

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• Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

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  Love Is, Joy, Needs

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.123, Multnomah

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• Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick.

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  Doctors, Sick, Weak

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