John Piper 3 - You Will Suffer (10분 19초)

 

 

 

 

The purpose of God in creating the universe is to display the greatness of the glory of His grace supremely in the suffering of His son... that's yesterday.

Today, the summons: Will you join the Son in displaying the supreme satisfaction of the glory of grace in joining Him on the Calvary Road of suffering, because there is no other way the world is gonna 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.

It's the only way!

The prosperity gospel will not make anybody praise Jesus, it will make people praise prosperity.

"Of course I'll have a Jesus who'll give me a car! Who wouldn't want a Jesus who gives me health, a car, a fine marriage? I'll take your Jesus if the pay off is right!"

This is not the way you're gonna win your campus...

Dressing the coolest...

Driving the coolest...

Typing on the coolest...

It's not gonna get any praise for the suffering Christ!

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I choose, I make so many choices to magnify Jesus in hard places (that) it hurts me everyday!

I would not choose this if it weren't true!

If I couldn't expect a resurrection from the dead, where everything would be paid back to me a thousandfold that I have laid down in the service of Jesus, I wouldn't go this way!

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There never has been a breakthrough into an unreached place or people without suffering.

If you're gonna be a missionary, mark it down: pain, loss of a child, malaria, marital strife, tensions on the team, demonic opposition, martyrdom...

It's gonna come; don't think it's strange when it comes.

It's the price!

He paid His life for our salvation!

We join Him in that suffering to display the nature of it.

How are they going to see how satisfying He is in us, if we look like it's the computer toy that is really satisfying?

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I'm not summoning you to a miserable life, I'm summoning you to a painful life.

But in this pain, all over the Bible, you find christians rejoicing in tribulation.

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You want to experience the deep joy of knowing yourself loved by God?

Lay out your life for another person, take a with your body, take a risk with your mind, take a risk with your money, your schooling...

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