Desiring God Messages by John Piper Audio

God shows no partiality. Whether Jew or Gentile, all who love and do evil will face wrath, and all who trust Christ and obey God will have glory.

When your life is over on this earth, there will be two paths you can take: you will either meet God in eternal wrath or eternal life.

God’s justice does not demand that he punish us for our sins immediately. His kindness through Jesus Christ leads him to forbear and be patient with us.

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The end-point of depravity is not just the suicidal love affair with sin, but the desire to bring others with you to destruction.

Sin enslaves us not just because we commit evil, but because God himself gives us over to our debased desires. Our only hope is for Jesus to bring renewal.

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The world’s futility and disorder is not a result of simple mistakes, but a consequence of exchanging God’s glory for other things.

God dramatizes the beauty of the gospel in the right ordering of our sexual lives.

If you value other things more than God, if your life is really driven by another value, then you exchange the imperishable for the perishable.

Finishing well in the face of death requires fighting the fight of faith, which takes hold of God’s promises for future grace in the midst of all our temptations and afflictions.

Faith, which is the root of all true obedience that glorifies God, is a coming to God to be satisfied with all that he is for us in Jesus, which means that the pursuit of joy in the Christian life is not optional, but essential.

Finishing well will not happen without a fight, and God is the decisive finisher who will powerfully work in us so that he alone gets the glory.

The greatest tragedy our world faces isn’t hunger, poverty, or crime, but blindness to the grace and beauty of Jesus Christ.

God means to get the glory for all things, including the ministry of small groups. We get the gift, the help, and the blessing, but God gets the glory.

Our hardened hearts naturally suppress the truth, but Jesus grants us new hearts to embrace his gospel.

You can escape the wrath of God against sin only when you take refuge in the gospel of his Son.

Not only does the gospel grant us the righteousness we need, but it also supplies the power for us to keep fighting sin by faith.

By faith, God gives us the righteousness we don’t deserve. We could never earn it on our own, but Jesus broke sins claim on all who believe.

The glorious hope of the gospel is that God himself supplies the righteousness he demands from us.

All who believe can taste the hope of the gospel. No matter how rough your background God has grace for you in the good news of Jesus.

There’s no other message in the world like the gospel. Other religions may have converts, but there is no true salvation outside the work of Jesus Christ.

The gospel is the greatest news in the world and the most loving truth we can share. We never have to be ashamed of its message.

Grace pays the debt we owe God for stealing his glory. And now we owe the gospel to any who still need God’s grace.

The great aim of our ministry should be the same as Paul’s: to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of God’s glory.

God changes our hearts, sustains in faith, and brings us all the way home, all because of his sovereign, unquenchable commitment to do his covenant people good.

To delight in God is to bring him the glory he deserves. He gets glory; we get satisfaction — all when our joy runs deep in God.

God is no idolater; he lives for the fame of his own name. And the ultimate goal for all God’s people is to glorify him by enjoying him forever.

If you’re a Christian, you have only come to faith because God called you. And if he called you, then you can be sure that he has a very special love for you.

Who we are as Christians is ultimately based not on us, but on the work of another — he who calls us.

Every ounce of grace that enables faith and empowers our obedience comes to us through the finished work of Jesus Christ.

The gospel is not novel or new, but rooted in God’s eternal decree to purchase a people for himself and keep them forever.

You should pursue pleasure in God is because God is breathtaking. That’s a tremendous implication for missions.

John Piper details the personal impact of the Book of Romans in his life and describes how Paul’s apostlic ministry comes from him being bought by Christ, called by Christ, and set apart for the gospel of God.

We advance in holiness and purity not by inundating ourselves with prohibitions, but by directing our hearts toward the great and precious promises of God.

Costly love in the pathway of obedience comes from joy in the future grace we presently behold by faith.

Gratitude isn’t good enough to motivate the Christian life. Faith doesn’t simply look back in thanks; it embraces the future grace of all that Christ promises to be for his people.

Saving faith in Jesus Christ doesn’t only justify us before God. True faith transforms and purifies a Christian by the power of the Spirit.

A passion for God’s glory, a passion for happiness, and a passion for holiness come together for understanding why living by faith in future grace is essential in the Christian life.

God’s passion for his glory is the basis of our salvation and our works of righteousness done in the strength he supplies.

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Pastors much preach the beauty of holiness to awaken contrition over lack of holiness. Preaching beauty begets contrition which begets radical obedience.

Unless preachers herald the majesties of our Maker, we won’t give our people anything more than they can get anywhere else.

What should you do if you’re in church and you don’t feel like praising God? How should pastors deal with particular sins from the pulpit?

Preaching on a Sunday morning isn’t simply a lecture that explains a text or topic. Life-changing preaching is exposition that’s driven by and results in exultation in Christ.

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The gospel will continue to advance far and wide, but not without God’s people suffering with their Savior along the way.