Desiring God Messages by John Piper Audio

God is sovereign not only over our belief, but also our unbelief. He plans both for his glory in all things.

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The Christian life is far from being easy. It’s no stroll in the park. But God guarantees that our journey will end in glory.

If Jesus is your greatest treasure, then your affections for him should be lavish and unbounded.

The only hope we have for genuine, lasting ethnic harmony is the death and resurrection of Christ along with all of its implications for our unity.

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God invites everyone to embrace the good news of Jesus. And he uses his people to proclaim and spread the message.

Adultolescence impedes the advance of the gospel. Skip years of immature indulgence and get a holy ambition.

The sovereignty of God brings about the substitution of Christ, which produces the globally diverse solidarity of the church of Jesus Christ.

God made us to live life together. We can only flourish with brothers and sisters in Christ at our side.

Missions exists because the knowledge of God, the praise of God, the enjoyment of God, and the fear of God don’t exist among the nations.

True contentment that is able to weather all kinds of hardship comes from knowing Christ as our surpassing treasure.

God does not mainly love us in this life by sparing us from suffering. He mainly loves us by giving us more of himself and his glory.

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Jesus loved Lazarus so much that he allowed him to die. But he also raised Lazarus to life and promises to do the same for all who trust in him.

The way we glorify God is to pursue and live out of superior satisfaction in him at all costs.

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others; therefore, in order to love people we must pursue our deepest joy in God.

God pursues his own praise, which is the greatest act of love not because he won’t be God until he gets it, but because we won’t be happy until we give it.

Showing Christ is a work of love, which will only take place as the overflow of our joy in all that God is for us in Jesus reaching out to meet the needs of others.

God is honored in our affections when our affections are rooted in knowledge of the truth.

In order to preach Christ faithfully we should preach his supremacy theocentrically, preach his love as the gift of himself, preach the cross from eternity to eternity, preach conversion as a miraculous gift, and preach sanctification as an effect of seeing the glory of Christ.

The truth that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied with him has profound implications for the life of the church, pastoral ministry, preaching, and the broader evangelical world.

God’s passion for his glory is not egomania but love, and it is manifested in his acts of predestination, creation, incarnation, propitiation, sanctification, and consummation.

Proclaiming Christ in such a way that people receive him and see him as their supreme treasure can only be done in the power of the Holy Spirit.

God owns us and has determined what the unwasted life is: living and acting in such a way that displays the supreme value of Christ.

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Everyone who believes in Jesus is a member of his flock. If you’re his, he’ll keep you safely to the end.

Abundant life is not about having more stuff, but about having Jesus. Only he can save, satisfy, and give life because he is is the way, the truth, and the life.

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Hallowing God’s name is a heart action that transforms and shapes every other thing we do, from instituting laws to building cultural institutions.

Sin blinds us all. We can only stumble about in darkness until Jesus takes us by the hand, and leads us into his heavenly light.

Jesus does the very works of God so that all might know that he himself is God.

Every sorrow and every time we suffer, there is a divinely designed purpose to display God’s glory and increase our joy.

One day your strength will fade and your body will fail, but if you are trusting in Jesus you will never see death.

We are commanded to pursue all-satisfying, never-ending, invincible joy. The place we can find, keep, and share this happiness is only in God.

How can you enjoy lunch or have sex with your spouse to the glory of God, so that those pleasures do not become supreme but appropriate? What does it mean to lay down your life for your brothers?

If God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him, the life we must pursue for the sake of God’s glory and the good of others is the life of maximal joy in God.

People see God’s exaltation and communication of his own glory as a problem, but the Bible doesn’t. The most loving thing God can do is to show us his glory.

Jesus is light and life. Only he can set us free from the chains of sin and death.

The mark of the true disciple is lasting, enduring, persevering, and keeping on in the force field of the word.

When you think you don’t know what to do, you at least know that you can pray. In the middle of transition, you can depend on God.

Scripture memorization is important and should be practiced because it is a means to conformity with Christ, comfort for yourself and others, conflict with sin, communication of the gospel, and communion with God.

The suffering of this present world exists by the sovereign plan of God, in order that the horrors of sin and the wonders of God’s grace in Christ might be shown.

It’s not just enough to understand the truth — you’ve got to see the loveliness of it. In this interview, John Piper and R.C. Sproul reflect on decades of ministry.

God blesses us in order that we might be a blessing for the sake of the nations.

Delight in God is not optional. The regenerate heart finds joy in Jesus more than anything else.

You only have one life now. Don’t waste it because this life will soon be past, and then the outcome will — for eternity — last.