Category: John Piper
If You Don’t Fight Lust, You’re Not Going to Heaven!
Lust Disregards God The text says, take a wife (or control your body/vessel) "in holiness . . . not in the passion of lust." (1 Thess 4:4) Holiness has to do with God—being set apart for God. So verse 5 goes on like this: "Not in the passion of lust like heathen who do not know God." Knowing God and acting like it keeps sexual desire from becoming lust. Look at verse 8: "Therefore whoever disregards this ...
If You Don’t Fight Lust, You’re Not Going to Heaven!
Lust Disregards God The text says, take a wife (or control your body/vessel) "in holiness . . . not in the passion of lust." (1 Thess 4:4) Holiness has to do with God—being set apart for God. So verse 5 goes on like this: "Not in the passion of lust like heathen who do not know God." Knowing God and acting like it keeps sexual desire from becoming lust. Look at verse 8: "Therefore whoever disregards this ...
The Great End of All Theology!
The theological labor of Edwards exhorts us to study for the sake of heartfelt worship and for practical obedience. You recall what Mark Noll said: "Edwards' piety continued on in the revivalist tradition, his theology continued on in academic Calvinism, but there were no successors to his God-entranced world-view. . ." The sweet marriage of reason and affection, of thought and feeling, of head and heart, study and worship that took place in the life of Jonathan ...
The Great End of All Theology!
The theological labor of Edwards exhorts us to study for the sake of heartfelt worship and for practical obedience. You recall what Mark Noll said: "Edwards' piety continued on in the revivalist tradition, his theology continued on in academic Calvinism, but there were no successors to his God-entranced world-view. . ." The sweet marriage of reason and affection, of thought and feeling, of head and heart, study and worship that took place in the life of Jonathan ...
Don’t Get Your Vision of God Secondhand!
Don't get your vision of God secondhand. Don't even let Edwards or Packer be your primary source of divinity. This was the example Edwards himself sets for us. His early biographer Sereno Dwight said that when he came to his pastorate in Northampton, "he had studied theology, not chiefly in systems or commentaries, but in the Bible, and in the character and mutual relations of God and his creatures, from which all its principles are derived" ...
Don’t Get Your Vision of God Secondhand!
Don't get your vision of God secondhand. Don't even let Edwards or Packer be your primary source of divinity. This was the example Edwards himself sets for us. His early biographer Sereno Dwight said that when he came to his pastorate in Northampton, "he had studied theology, not chiefly in systems or commentaries, but in the Bible, and in the character and mutual relations of God and his creatures, from which all its principles are derived" ...
The All-Consuming Singleness of a Vision of God!
Edwards exhorts us to radical singlemindedness in our occupation with spiritual things. Listen to two of his resolutions that he made in 1723, when he was almost 20 years old. # 44, Resolved, That no other end but religion shall have any influence at all in any of my actions; and that no action shall be, in the least circumstance, any otherwise than the religious end will carry it. # 61, Resolved, That I will not give ...
The All-Consuming Singleness of a Vision of God!
Edwards exhorts us to radical singlemindedness in our occupation with spiritual things. Listen to two of his resolutions that he made in 1723, when he was almost 20 years old. # 44, Resolved, That no other end but religion shall have any influence at all in any of my actions; and that no action shall be, in the least circumstance, any otherwise than the religious end will carry it. # 61, Resolved, That I will not give ...
We Need a God-Entranced Vision of a Reality of God!
Since Edwards, American evangelicals have not thought about life from the ground up as Christians because their entire culture has ceased to do so. Edwards's piety continued on in the revivalist tradition, his theology continued on in academic Calvinism, but there were no successors to his God-entranced world-view or his profoundly theological philosophy. The disappearance of Edwards's perspective in American Christian history has been a tragedy. (Mark Noll, Quoted in "Jonathan Edwards, Moral Philosophy, and ...
We Need a God-Entranced Vision of a Reality of God!
Since Edwards, American evangelicals have not thought about life from the ground up as Christians because their entire culture has ceased to do so. Edwards's piety continued on in the revivalist tradition, his theology continued on in academic Calvinism, but there were no successors to his God-entranced world-view or his profoundly theological philosophy. The disappearance of Edwards's perspective in American Christian history has been a tragedy. (Mark Noll, Quoted in "Jonathan Edwards, Moral Philosophy, and ...
Don’t Say Serving is Loving if No Gospel is Preached
A silent servant-hood that never speaks the Gospel contradicts love. There's a lot of that in the world today. Silent serving as though that were love leaving people without the articulation of the Gospel which is the power of God unto their salvation---It's not love. It looks loving. The world certainly wants us to do it that way. But that's not the Biblical way. It's not God's way. It's not Christ's way. We have mouths! And mouths are ...
Don’t Say Serving is Loving if No Gospel is Preached
A silent servant-hood that never speaks the Gospel contradicts love. There's a lot of that in the world today. Silent serving as though that were love leaving people without the articulation of the Gospel which is the power of God unto their salvation---It's not love. It looks loving. The world certainly wants us to do it that way. But that's not the Biblical way. It's not God's way. It's not Christ's way. We have mouths! And mouths are ...
No, Mr. President: John Piper, Response to Obama
I ran to this video the other day as I went through my YouTube subscriptions. It was a video excerpt from Dr. John Piper. The title of it was: "No, Mr. President: John Piper's Response to President Obama on Abortion." I've never heard a message as short as this one that is so full of weight and seriousness. It is my fear and terror that what Voddie Baucham Jr. said is true, our generation despises ...
No, Mr. President: John Piper, Response to Obama
I ran to this video the other day as I went through my YouTube subscriptions. It was a video excerpt from Dr. John Piper. The title of it was: "No, Mr. President: John Piper's Response to President Obama on Abortion." I've never heard a message as short as this one that is so full of weight and seriousness. It is my fear and terror that what Voddie Baucham Jr. said is true, our generation despises ...
Satisfied with Heaven even if Christ Were Not There
The critical question for our generation—and for every generation—is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not ...
Satisfied with Heaven even if Christ Were Not There
The critical question for our generation—and for every generation—is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not ...
All-encompassing Aim in Life—Holiness
Since yesterday evening I’ve taken it upon myself to have a short vacation of sorts. Personally it is to detach myself a bit from the worries of the normalities and trappings of this kingdom that I may be able to reflect, dig deeper, and engrave into my mind in a way of having an increase in greater degrees a sober intoxication of the Gospel of free and sovereign grace towards an increase in Mortification of ...
All-encompassing Aim in Life—Holiness
Since yesterday evening I’ve taken it upon myself to have a short vacation of sorts. Personally it is to detach myself a bit from the worries of the normalities and trappings of this kingdom that I may be able to reflect, dig deeper, and engrave into my mind in a way of having an increase in greater degrees a sober intoxication of the Gospel of free and sovereign grace towards an increase in Mortification of ...