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When I Believe In Jesus, I Am United To Christ. Therefore, What He Did And Achieved Becomes Mine By This Union Through Faith Alone. His Righteous Life Is Imputed To Me. What Christ Achieved Is Counted As Mine.

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When I Believe In

John Piper

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When I Believe In Jesus, I Am United To Christ. Therefore, What He Did And Achieved Becomes Mine By This Union Through Faith Alone. His Righteous Life Is Imputed To Me. What Christ Achieved Is Counted As Mine.

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Worship Is A Way Of Gladly Reflecting Back To God The Radiance Of His Worth.

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God's Greatest Interest Is To Glorify The Wealth Of His Grace By Making Sinners Happy In Him.

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God Is Most Glorified In Us When We Are Most Satisfied In Him.

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I Have Tried To Devote My Life - With All My Husband Failures, Father Failures, Pastor Failures, Friend Failures, Any Other Possible Failures I'm Sure I've Done Them - To The God-centeredness Of God And My Aspiring, Yearning To Join Him In That Activity. God Is Passionate About Hallowing The Name Of God.

Don't Follow A Defeated Foe. Follow Christ. It Is Costly. You Will Be An Exile In This Age. But You Will Be Free.

God Is Not A Killjoy; He Just Opposes What Kills Joy.

Desire That Your Life Count For Something Great! Long For Your Life To Have Eternal Significance. Want This! Don’t Coast Through Life Without A Passion.

Christian Inspirational

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God Has Made Us To Be Conduits Of His Grace. The Danger Is In Thinking The Conduit Should Be Lined With Gold. It Shouldn't. Copper Will Do.

Doing Things In Secret That You Are Ashamed For Others To Know Is Practical Atheism. God's Knowing Doesn't Count?

The Task Of All Christian Scholarship—not Just Biblical Studies—is To Study Reality As A Manifestation Of God’s Glory, To Speak And Write About It With Accuracy, And To Savor The Beauty Of God In It, And To Make It Serve The Good Of Man. It Is An Abdication Of Scholarship When Christians Do Academic Work With Little Reference To God. If All The Universe And Everything In It Exist By The Design Of An Infinite, Personal God, To Make His Manifold Glory Known And Loved, Then To Treat Any Subject Without Reference To God’s Glory Is Not Scholarship But Insurrection.

So Saving Grace, Converting Grace, For Augustine, Is God's Giving Us A Sovereign Joy In God That Triumphs Over All Other Joys And Therefore Sways The Will. The Will Is Free To Move Toward Whatever It Delights In Most Fully, But It Is Not Within The Power Of Our Will To Determine What That Sovereign Joy Will Be.

Obedience Does Not Consist In Paying God Back And Thus Turning Grace Into A Trade. Obedience Comes From Trusting In God For More Grace - Future Grace - And Thus Magnifying The Infinite Resources Of God's Love And Power.

We Need God In Ways We Do Not Know. Don't Limit Your Experience Of God To What You Can Think To Ask. Ask For The Unknown Joy.

Loving God With All Our Mind Means That Our Thinking Is Wholly Engaged To Do All It Can To Awaken And Express The Heartfelt Fullness Of Treasuring God Above All Things.

Do We Eagerly Long For The Coming Of Christ? Or Do We Want Him To Wait While Our Love Affair With The World Runs Its Course? That Is The Question That Tests The Authenticity Of Faith.

God Is Pursuing With Omnipotent Passion A Worldwide Purpose Of Gathering Joyful Worshipers For Himself From Every Tribe And Tongue And People And Nation. He Has An Inexhaustible Enthusiasm For The Supremacy Of His Name Among The Nations. Therefore, Let Us Bring Our Affections Into Line With His, And, For The Sake Of His Name, Let Us Renounce The Quest For Worldly Comforts And Join His Global Purpose.

It Is A Myth That Man In His Natural State Is Genuinely Seeking God. Men Do Seek God. But They Do Not Seek Him For Who He Is. They Seek Him In A Pinch As One Who Might Preserve Them From Death Or Enhance Their Worldly Enjoyments. Apart From Conversion, No One Comes To The Light Of God.

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Sometimes People Stumble Over This Vastness In Relation To The Apparent Insignificance Of Man. It Does Seem To Make Us Infinitesimally Small. But The Meaning Of This Magnitude Is Not Mainly About Us. It’s About God… The Reason For ‘wasting’ So Much Space On A Universe To House A Speck Of Humanity Is To Make A Point About Our Maker, Not Us.

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God Has Ordained That Our Preaching Become Deeper And More Winsome As We Are Broken, Humbled, And Made Low And Desperately Dependent On Grace By The Trials Of Our Lives.

If You Don’t Know God As Beautiful And Satisfying, You Don’t Know Him.

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Suffering For Jesus Is Temporary. Pleasure In Jesus Is Eternal.

We Weren't Meant To Be Somebody--we Were Meant To Know Somebody

My Feelings Are Not God. God Is God. My Feelings Do Not Define Truth. God’s Word Defines Truth. My Feelings Are Echoes And Responses To What My Mind Perceives. And Sometimes - Many Times - My Feelings Are Out Of Sync With The Truth. When That Happens - And It Happens Every Day In Some Measure - I Try Not To Bend The Truth To Justify My Imperfect Feelings, But Rather, I Plead With God: Purify My Perceptions Of Your Truth And Transform My Feelings So That They Are In Sync With The Truth.

I've Never Heard Anyone Say The Really Deep Lessons Of Life Have Come In Times Of Ease And Comfort. But, I Have Heard Many Saints Say Every Significant Advance I've Ever Made In Grasping In The Depth Of God's Love And Growing Deep With Him, Have Come Through Suffering.

I Am Not A Missionary, But I Have Wanted My Life To Count For The Unreached Peoples Of The World.

Anger Devours Almost All Other Good Emotions. It Deadens The Soul. It Numbs The Heart To Joy And Gratitude And Hope And Tenderness And Compassion And Kindness.

It Is Evil To Justify Killing (unborn Babies) By The Happy Outcome Of Eternity For The One Killed. This Same Justification Could Be Used To Justify Killing One-year Olds, Or Any Heaven-bound Believer For That Matter. The Bible Asks The Question: "shall We Sin That Grace May Abound?" (romans 6:1) And: "shall We Do Evil That Good May Come?" (romans 3:8). In Both Cases The Answer Is A Resounding No. It Is Presumption To Step Into God's Place And Try To Make The Assignments To Heaven Or To Hell. Our Duty Is To Obey God, Not To Play God.

The Answer, The Answer, My Friend, Is Not Yours To Invent Or Create. It Will Be Decided For You. It Is Outside You. It Is Real And Objective And Firm. One Day You Will Hear It. You Don’t Create It. You Don’t Define It. It Comes To You, And Sooner Or Later You Conform To It—or Bow To It.

Whenever Your Heart Starts To Be Anxious About The Future, Preach To Your Heart And Say, 'heart, Who Do You Think You Are To Be Afraid Of The Future And Nullify The Promise Of God? No, Heart, I Will Not Exalt Myself With Anxiety. I Will Humble Myself In Peace And Joy As I Trust This Precious And Great Promise Of God - He Cares For Me.'

Every Good Thing In The Christian Life Grows In The Soil Of Humility. Without Humility, Every Virtue And Every Grace Withers. That’s Why Calvin Said Humility Is First, Second, And Third In The Christian Faith.

I Do Not Appeal To You To Screw Up Your Courage And Sacrifice For Christ. I Appeal To You To Renounce All You Have To Obtain Life That Satisfies Your Deepest Longings.

How Do You Get From, "we Do Not Know Whether This Is Protectable Human Life," To "therefore, We Will Not Protect It?" Wouldn't The Logic Just As Likely (some Would Say Far More Likely) Be, "since We Do Not Know Whether This Is Protectable Human Life, Therefore We Will Protect It?" Why Does The Judicial Uncertainty About The Humanity Of The Unborn Lead To Unbridled License To Destroy It?

Don’t Be Surprised. There Is Nothing New Under The Sun. Only Endless Repackagings

You Never Outgrow Your Need To Preach To Yourself The Gospel.

A Christian Is Not A Person Who Believes In His Head The Teachings Of The Bible. Satan Believes In His Head The Teachings Of The Bible! A Christian Is A Person Who Has Died With Christ, Whose Stiff Neck Has Been Broken, Whose Brazen Forehead Has Been Shattered, Whose Stony Heart Has Been Crushed, Whose Pride Has Been Slain, And Whose Life Is Now Mastered By Jesus Christ.

The Christian Life Becomes Impossible. That Is, It Becomes Supernatural.

If You Want To Be A Conduit For God's Grace, You Don't Have To Be Lined With Gold. Copper Will Do.

God Without Christ Is No God.

Why Don't People Ask Us About Our Hope? The Answer Is Probably That We Look As If We Hope In The Same Things They Do. Our Lives Don't Look Like They Are On The Calvary Road, Stripped Down For Sacrificial Love, Serving Others With The Sweet Assurance That We Don't Need To Be Rewarded In This Life.

The Point Is Not That The Resurrection Is The Price Paid For Our Sins. The Point Point Is That The Resurrection Proves The Death Of Jesus Is An All-sufficient Price. If Jesus Did Not Rise From The Dead, Then His Death Was A Failure, God Did Not Vindicate His Sin-bearing Achievement, And We Are Still In Our Sins.

There Is A Warning. The Path Of God-exalting Joy Will Cost You Your Life. Jesus Said, “whoever Loses His Life For My Sake And The Gospel’s Will Save It.” In Other Words, It Is Better To Lose Your Life Than To Waste It. If You Live Gladly To Make Others Glad In God, Your Life Will Be Hard, Your Risks Will Be High, And Your Joy Will Be Full. This Is Not A Book About How To Avoid A Wounded Life, But How To Avoid A Wasted Life. Some Of You Will Die In The Service Of Christ. That Will Not Be A Tragedy. Treasuring Life Above Christ Is A Tragedy.

Giving In A Regular, Disciplined, Generous Way-up To And Beyond The Tithe-is Simply Good Sense In View Of The Promises Of God.

There Will Be No Passion To Draw Others Into Our Worship Where There Is No Passion For Worship.

So The Main Question Is Not, Which Humans Brought About The Death Of Jesus But, What Did The Death Of Jesus Bring About For Humans - Including Jews And Muslims And Buddhists And Hindus And Nonreligious Secularists - And All People Everywhere?when It Is All Said And Done, The Most Crucial Question Is: Why? Why Did Christ Suffer And Die? Not Why In The Sense Of Cause, But Why In The Sense Of Purpose?

God Created Me—and You—to Live With A Single, All-embracing, All-transforming Passion—namely, A Passion To Glorify God By Enjoying And Displaying His Supreme Excellence In All The Spheres Of Life.

Seeing & Savoring Jesus Christ Is The Most Important Seeing And Savoring You'll Ever Do.

God Created Us With Sexual Passion So That There Would Be Language To Describe What It Means To Cleave To Him In Love And What It Means To Turn Away From Him To Others.

The Ultimate Purpose Of Life Is To Show That Jesus Is More Precious Than Life.

Marriage Is Not Mainly About Prospering Economically; It Is Mainly About Displaying The Covenant-keepin G Love Between Christ And His Church. Knowing Christ Is More Important Than Making A Living. Treasuring Christ Is More Important Than Bearing Children. Being United To Christ By Faith Is A Greater Source Of Marital Success Than Perfect Sex And Double-income Prosperity.

I Don’t Know How People Pray Who Don’t Believe In The Sovereignty Of God To Do The Impossible. Because All The Things I Want To Happen Are Impossible. If They’re Possible I’ll Do Them.

Worship Is Ultimate, Not Missions. Because God Is Ultimate, Not Man.

I Just Want To Preach So Bad I Can Hardly Stand It. I Love What I Do.

The Root Cause Of Abortion Is The Failure To Be Satisfied In God As Our Supreme Love. And, For All The Great Legal Work That Needs To Be Done To Protect Human Life, The Greatest Work That Needs To Be Done Is To Spread A Passion - A Satisfaction For The Supremacy Of God In All Things. That's Our Calling.

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