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You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forev...
30/04/2024

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. (Psalm 16:11)

How then shall we fight for joy?

In this life of sin and pain, joy is embattled. Just like faith. And Paul says to Timothy, “Fight the good fight of the faith” (1 Timothy 6:12). So it is with joy. We must work for it and fight for it. Paul said to the Corinthians, “We work with you for your joy” (2 Corinthians 1:24).

How then shall we fight for joy?

https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/how-shall-we-fight-for-joy?utm_mediun=mobile&utm_source=ios&utm_campaign=Solid+Joys

We know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose...
02/04/2024

We know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28)

If you live inside this massive promise, your life is more solid and stable than Mount Everest.

Nothing can blow you over when you are inside the walls of Romans 8:28. Outside Romans 8:28, all is confusion and anxiety and fear and uncertainty. Outside this promise of God’s all-encompassing future grace, there are straw houses of drugs and po*******hy and dozens of futile diversions. There are slat walls and tin roofs of fragile investment strategies and fleeting insurance coverage and trivial retirement plans. There are cardboard fortifications of deadbolt locks and alarm systems and antiballistic missiles. Outside are a thousand substitutes for Romans 8:28.

Once you walk through the door of love into the massive, unshakable structure of Romans 8:28, everything changes. There come into your life stability and depth and freedom. You simply can’t be blown over anymore. The confidence that a sovereign God governs for your good all the pain and all the pleasure that you will ever experience is an incomparable refuge and security and hope and power in your life.

When God’s people really live by the future grace of Romans 8:28 — from measles to the mortuary — they are the freest and strongest and most generous people in the world.

Their light shines and people give glory to their Father in heaven (Matthew 5:16).

From Future Grace, pages 118–119

10 Results of the ResurrectionIf Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. (1 Cor...
27/03/2024

10 Results of the Resurrection

If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. (1 Corinthians 15:17)

From “What We Owe the Resurrection of Jesus”

❇️ How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! (Psalm 119:103)Never reduce Christianity to a m...
26/03/2024

❇️ How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! (Psalm 119:103)

Never reduce Christianity to a matter of demands and resolutions and willpower. It is a matter of what we love, what we delight in, what tastes good to us.

When Jesus came into the world, humanity was split according to what they loved. “The light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light” (John 3:19). The righteous and the wicked are separated by what they delight in — the revelation of God in Jesus, or the way of the world.

So someone may ask: How can I come to delight in the word of God?
My answer is twofold:

1️⃣ Pray for new tastebuds on the tongue of your heart;
2️⃣ Meditate on the staggering promises of God to his people.

https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/how-to-delight-in-gods-word

From “Delighting in the Law of God” by John Piper

This text points to the fact that believing in Jesus is a feeding and drinking from all that Jesus is. It goes so far as...
25/03/2024

This text points to the fact that believing in Jesus is a feeding and drinking from all that Jesus is. It goes so far as to say that our soul-thirst is satisfied with Jesus, so that we don’t thirst anymore.

He is the end of our quest for satisfaction. There is nothing beyond, and nothing better.

When we trust Jesus the way John intends for us to, the presence and promise of Jesus is so satisfying that we are not dominated by the alluring pleasures of sin (see Romans 6:14). This accounts for why such faith in Jesus nullifies the power of sin and enables obedience.

John 4:14 points in the same direction: “Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” In accord with John 6:35, saving faith is spoken of here as a drinking of water that satisfies the deepest longings of the soul. And the satisfaction becomes productive, like a well overflowing.

It’s the same in John 7:37–38: “Jesus stood up and cried out, ‘If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, “Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”’”

Through faith, Christ becomes in us an inexhaustible fountain of satisfying life that lasts forever and leads us to heaven, and on the way sets us free from the sinful illusions of other satisfactions. This he does by sending us his Spirit (John 7:38–39).

From Future Grace, page 214
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Forever Satisfied - Solid Joys by John Piper

23/03/2024

✳️Ignorance Guarantees Ungodliness - Solid Joys with John Piper
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Listen again to 2 Peter 1:3: “[God’s] divine power has granted . . . all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence.”

Literally, all the power available from God to live and be godly comes through knowledge! Amazing! What a premium we should put on doctrine and instruction in the Scriptures! Life and godliness are at stake.

Not that knowing guarantees godliness. It doesn’t. But it seems that ignorance guarantees ungodliness. Because, Peter says, the divine power that leads to godliness is given through the knowledge of God.

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6).“They have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge” (Romans 10:2). So beware of the deadly effects of ignorance.

Exhortation: “Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord” (Hosea 6:3).

From “The Power of Knowledge”

https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/ignorance-guarantees-ungodliness

Let us make war, not with other people, but with our own unbelief. Unbelief in the promises of God is the root of anxiet...
22/03/2024

Let us make war, not with other people, but with our own unbelief. Unbelief in the promises of God is the root of anxiety, which, in turn, is the root of so many other sins. The sword of the Spirit is the word of God, Paul said in Ephesians 6:17. The shield by which we quench Satan’s fiery deceits is faith (verse 16) — faith in that very word of God. So take up the shield in your left hand and the sword in your right hand, and let us fight the good fight of faith.
Take up the Bible, ask the Holy Spirit for help, lay the promises up in your heart, and fight the good fight — to live by faith in future grace.

_____From Future Grace, page 61

Let us make war, not with other people, but with our own unbelief. Unbelief in the promises of God is the root of anxiet...
22/03/2024

Let us make war, not with other people, but with our own unbelief. Unbelief in the promises of God is the root of anxiety, which, in turn, is the root of so many other sins. The sword of the Spirit is the word of God, Paul said in Ephesians 6:17. The shield by which we quench Satan’s fiery deceits is faith (verse 16) — faith in that very word of God. So take up the shield in your left hand and the sword in your right hand, and let us fight the good fight of faith.

Take up the Bible, ask the Holy Spirit for help, lay the promises up in your heart, and fight the good fight — to live by faith in future grace.

From Future Grace, page 61

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✳️Ignorance Guarantees Ungodliness - Solid Joys with John Piper ___ Listen again to 2 Peter 1:3: “[God’s] divine power has granted . . . all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence.” Literally, all the power available from God to live and be godly comes through knowledge! Amazing! What a premium we should put on doctrine and instruction in the Scriptures! Life and godliness are at stake. Not that knowing guarantees godliness. It doesn’t. But it seems that ignorance guarantees ungodliness. Because, Peter says, the divine power that leads to godliness is given through the knowledge of God. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6).“They have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge” (Romans 10:2). So beware of the deadly effects of ignorance. Exhortation: “Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord” (Hosea 6:3). From “The Power of Knowledge” https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/ignorance-guarantees-ungodliness #WordOfGod #GospelTruth #SacredScriptures #GoodNews #ScripturalInspiration #FaithJourney #SalvationStory #GraceUnveiled #GodsLove #SaviorOfAll #ChristInMe #RedemptionRoad #DivineGrace #LivingWord #HopeRestored #KingdomCome #FaithWalk #SavedByGrace #FaithFilledLife #ChristCentered #GraceAbounds #GospelMission #DivinePurpose #HeartOfWorship #ProclaimTheGospel #FaithfulServant #JesusSaves #GraceUponGrac #FaithfulAndTrue #WalkInFaith #LivingGospel

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