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• The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.

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  Jesus, Purpose, Life Is

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• The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

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  Riches, Affection, Danger

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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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• This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.

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  Christian, Suffering, Contentment

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.265, Multnomah

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• Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.

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  Giving, Christ

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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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  Christian, Easter, Pain

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• 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.

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  Joy, Risk, Wasted Life

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• If you are sufficient for your task, it's too small.

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  Tasks, Ifs, Sufficient

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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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• 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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• Don't coast through life without a passion.

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  Passion, Coast, Waste Of Life

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

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• "How are you doing?" - - - better than I deserve.

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  Suffering, Inevitable, Deserve

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• The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

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  Believe, Delay, Detours

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.170, Multnomah

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• Life is war. That's not all it is. But it is always that. Our weakness in prayer is owing largely to our neglect of this truth. Prayer is primarily a wartime walkie-talkie for the mission of the church as it advances against the powers of darkness and unbelief.

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  Prayer, War, Darkness

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

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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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• We give glory to God when we trust him to do what he has promised to do-especially when all human possibilities are exhausted. Faith glorifies God. That is why God planned for faith to be the way we are justified.

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  Giving, Way, Exhausted

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• God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus.

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  Mother, Jesus, Father

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• Giving is a way of having what you need.

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  Giving, Needs, Way

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• When the heart no longer feels the truth of hell, the gospel passes from good news to simply news

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  Heart, News, Hell

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.134, B&H Publishing Group

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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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• Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

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  Tragedy, Christ, Wasted Life

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• A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises. The prospect of departing into the way of sin will be too fearful to pursue; and the benefits of abiding in the shadow of the Almighty too glorious to forsake.

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  Running, Heart, Waiting

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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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• We embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.

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  Hands, Embrace, Deals

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• Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.

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  Self, Mind, Satisfaction

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