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John Piper Quotes - Page 9

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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.

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.

Wrath, Wonder, Mercy

Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ.

Fighting, Joy, Way

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.

Men, Light, Might

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.

Jesus, Sacrifice, Finals

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.

People, World, Assistants

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

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

Jesus, Children, Followers

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

Even on days when every cinder in our soul feels cold, if we crawl to the Word of God and cry out for ears to hear, the cold ashes will be lifted and the tiny spark of life will be fanned. For 'the law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul.'

Law, Perfect, Soul

John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.144, Multnomah

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.

Prayer, Keys, Use

There is no other way the world is going to see the supreme glory of Christ today, except that we break free from the Disneyland of America and begin to live lifestyles of missionary sacrifice that looks to the world like our treasure is in heaven and not on the earth.

Live Life, Sacrifice, America

The highest meaning and the most ultimate purpose of marriage is to put the covenant relationship of Christ and his church on display. That is why marriage exists. If you are married, that is why you are married. If you hope to be, that should be your dream.

Dream, Church, Covenant

John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.16, SPCK

'Worship' is the term we use to cover all the acts of the heart and mind and body that intentionally express the infinite worth of God. This is what we were created for, as God says in Isaiah 43:7, Everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory. That means that we were all created for the purpose of expressing the infinite worth of God's glory. We were created to worship.

Heart, Mean, Names

The purpose of the Lord's Supper is to receive from Christ the nourishment and strength and hope and joy that come from feasting our souls on all that He purchased for us on the cross, especially His own fellowship.

Joy, Soul, Purpose

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.

Friday, Garden, Done

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

Christian, Prayer, Vulnerable

God's global aim in creation and redemption is not only the glory of his name, but also the gladness of the peoples.

Names, Redemption, Glory

Love is the overflow of joy in God! It is not duty for duty's sake, or right for right's sake. It is not a resolute abandoning of one's own good with a view solely to the good of the other person. It is first a deeply satisfying experience of the fullness of God's grace, and then a doubly satisfying experience of sharing that grace with another person.

Love Is, Views, Joy

John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.120, Multnomah

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.

Suicide, Evil, Overcoming

The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.

Mind, Might, Reason

John Piper (2013). “Think”, p.15, SPCK

When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT!

Book, Gone, Forgotten

This assumes that the glory of Christ is our highest treasure, not health, wealth, family or even life. So preaching must continually show not that Jesus is the means to prosperity but that he is better than prosperity.

Jesus, Mean, Treasure

The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don’t create it. You don’t define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.

Real, One Day, Answers

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.

Christian, Kings, Children

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

Unhappy, Delight, Worship

It is not saving faith to confess Christ as true. Saving faith receives Christ as a Treasure.

Treasure, Saving, Christ

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

Roots, Grace, Cost

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