In my physical disability. Thank God I found the real joy by reading God's word (Bible ) and by listening and watching Christ -centered preaching such as this. Thanks be to the Lord for your life pastor John. Please include me in your prayer. I prayed for a complete recovery. Thanks.

How anyone can possibly think John Piper is lopsided, has never truly listened to all of his teachings and read his words in their entirety...God know his heart and I for one have been blessed by him beyond measure💜

when my grandma died, I was so sad because I was not able to keep many promises to her. but was also joyful to realize she is in heaven because she was saved and got baptized.

I love the way he explained the real meaning of life joy found in Jesus

I think this is my favorite sermon by John Piper. Thankyou!

pray for me that I have joy in my life i have not has a joy in my life long time i cant remember i has the Joy in the lord i know my joy is my strength

I want this. I want consuming satisfaction and joy in Christ. I WANT TO LOVE THE CHAIR! I’m not sure that I’m there yet. Someone who is there, pray for us.

God bless John Piper for reiterating a statement that was revealed to me this week through prayer about the significance of emotion in our worship and relationship with God and our lives. Emotions are NOT our enemy, satan is.

Thank you Pastor John for your teachings,I was in a bad season for the earlier part of my life,I leap for Joy now,because I know whom I belong too

This sermon touched my heart

I’m surprised he did not mention the first and foremost, the first commandment, the shema. You shall LOVE the Lord your God with all your heart, it doesn’t say obey. With love comes joyful obedience because of that love you have for Him.

what an awesome awesome word

Wonderful sermon, thank you Jon Piper.

The main.thing to have joy.in.christ. The most I satisfied in Jesus 😊

AMEN

enjoyed this

AMEN!!!

When you think that each and everyone of us have a whole life long opportunity to be with the infinite affectionate and loving Jesus, is hard not to be joyful that He granted them that much mercy and patience to live on His property!!! God in His marvelous Sovereign design made sure that each and everyone of us have no choice but to make a choice in everything we do. There's nothing in life that we think, say or do, that does not require a choice. It is impossible to live without making choices. Even when you don't want to make a choice, you made a choice... Don't get stuck in a parallel creation, that is merely a fiction of your imagination. Christ is Risen!!!

You are Faithful and True my friend. REVELATION 19:13 And he [was] clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

What happens to us when we die? 'But for him who is joined to all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion. For the living know that they will die; But the dead know nothing; And they have no more reward, For the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, their hatred and their envy have now perished; Nevermore will they have a share In anything done under the sun . . . Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.' Ecclesiastes 9:5-6,10 When you die the 'first' death, your body decays in the tomb - or 'Sheol' which is most commonly mistranslated as 'hell' in your KJV. The dead know nothing. If you die and your 'soul' goes to heaven or 'hell' and you know nothing..how can you appreciate paradise? The dead 'soul' knows nothing, it cannot feel love, so love of God in a perfect paradise is impossible, and hatred is no longer felt so a soul in hell cannot hate its situation. Why do smart men refuse the truths facing them in scripture? The ancient writers spoke of death as a 'sleep'. Not once but over and over we find the texts speaking of the dead 'sleeping''. If you are in heaven or 'hell' and you are sleeping and know nothing feeling no envy, no hate, no love.. Seems to be little point to being in either place. Men who died Millenia ago, if their reward was to go to a ficticious 'hell' then their punishment began Millenia ago, they have been suffering and burning for Millenia right up to this point in time..all for a single span of sinning for a human lifetime. Their suffering has gone on a lot longer than someone who died yesterday who rejected the gospel and died in their sins. How is this a just punishment? 'Hell' makes God a liar ..who told Adam and Eve they would surely die if they ate the fruit. He did not stipulate, that if they ate the fruit their bodies would die but they would live on in a eternally burning hell being punished unendingly. When we die we perish. Body goes back to dust, our spirit which is our life 'breath' and what constitutes our mind or personal being, all return to God who will bring it with Him when we are raised from the dead. Woken from sleep with new bodies our minds, spirit and breath united with new bodies so we can wake from our sleep and live again.

Why was his opening prayer edited?

When you think about Jesus's infinite, unforgiving hatred for the nonelect, and their infinite, unforgiven suffering for Jesus's glory -- it's hard *not* to be joyful!

Ps. John Piper please come to indonesia

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TO BE MORAL ONE MUST 1. Own no more wealth then the poor. 2. Use no force to overcome evil. 3. Condemn the more intelligent upper-half of society for hoarding all land and wealth. 4. Be a vegetarian.

EVIL --- CANNOT DIE WITHOUT IT 1. Evil existed before good, for good is the realm of life, while evil is realm of death. 2. Evil being death itself, it is a most essential part of reality, as it separates existence from non-existence, all that is in the grave, from all that has been spared the grave. 3. Sin does harm to life and causes living things to be dead, while evil is the place of the dead. Therefore, the effect of sin is most ungodly, while evil is a most beneficial and godly thing. 4. Organic matter is a living thing, even though it is putrid and decaying thing. But, if such slime did not suffer the evil of death, in time nothing on earth would be left alive except corrupting and all encompassing organic matter. 5. By the same token, by God having created the realm of sin, it allows for erroring freewill created beings to live, move and have their being. For if our harm was not transferred to the realm of sin where repentance and mercy may end our death sentence, the only thinking beings left alive would be perfectionists who live in a perpetual state of fear. 6. And the most essential and beneficial part of evil, is how it directs our thoughts toward repentance and the need to gain forgiveness from those we have harmed. For who would seek God's mercy if they felt no need for it? 7. And so, an eternal burning hell has to be fiction. For the very thought of hell destroys the desire for repentance, leaves no room for forgiveness and makes mercy impossible. For a realm of the living dead, such a thing would make it impossible for the realms of life, sin and evil to work in harmony to establish all the decency and harmony we know and love in reality. 8. As the realm of sin was created by God for a most beneficial purpose, surely, Christ crucified was for a more grand and awesome purpose then to appease the vengeance, in a God of mercy that has no room for vengeance. For to end the anger, vengeance and guilt in out mind, character and personality, to open the door to salvation for you and me, now this is just the way that the God of ours does things. 9. Therefore, remember that the only way to love God is to create the only thing that He cannot create, the only thing that we can create without help from God, a grateful heart for all the goodness in God.

repent John Piper. Do not bow to evolution.