Desiring God Messages by John Piper Audio

John Piper | 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.

John Piper | 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.

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

John Piper | 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.

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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.

John Piper | 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.

John Piper | 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.

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.

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?

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.

John Piper | 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.

John Piper | 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.