Lord Jesus, help me to delight myself in loving you please, Amen!

I definitely wasn't expecting anything else from John Piper when he said "Joy" than this topic. XD May God bless this man!!

This is such a gem of a sermon and just what I've been praying about. Thank you so much! And John Piper is such a delightful preacher.

I thoroughly enjoyed this sermon. I thank God for His word and Spirit, and the privilege of listening to men such as John Piper.

John Piper in Grace Church? What a sight!

Makes my heart happy to see brother John Piper at Grace Community Church !!!!!

It takes precisely this measure of joy in Christ to die to ourselves and live for God. The cost of discipleship is nothing short of loving Him more than anything! We will never deny ourselves if we don't delight in Christ above ourselves!! May God raise up an army of preachers as faithful as John Piper.

Spiritual affections to God - Joy, sincerity, praiseworthy🙏👼❤️

Tough subject to preach on, so important for depth. Good dose of spiritual beef. Praise our great and gracious God. Thank you Jesus x

Thank you John, God bless your breath!

Thank you for your message, Lord. Delightful in loving God!

God bless you brother

Beautiful🙏🏽❤. Amen and Amen.

John piper in Grace church! It's Great!

Thank you for your prayers ✝️🙏

LOVE THIS DEAR SAINT!

Praise the Lord thank you Christ Jesus. Thank you for your servant John Piper. Lord, i delight, help thou mine undelight. Prayers Praise and Joy !!!

God my shield and exceedingly great reward

God bless you so much

Thank you!

Thank you Lord for your blessings when my "fire" came. You kept my leaves green....🙏🙏🙏

great word

Many of us today are concerned about the spiritual generation gap between us and our children without the least bit of concern for our generation gap of our forefathers.. my oh my how we need to reconnect with our roots before trying to pass down anything

A beautiful soul he is.

"Preach it John Piper, it is.. .is it not?.. th🎉 truth of the fact of obedience to our "Great God!Piper's preaching! and teaching approach is quite unique! and effective!.,All Glory be to "God Almighty!.. .Amen ,amen✝️

In Psalm 37 'delight yourself in the Lord' is followed immediately by 'the meek shall inherit the earth" The Son inherits the earth in Psalm 2, the meek inherits the earth in psalm 37 in the Son and by new hearts. Psalm 25 similar where god instructs sinners in the way also has the pure and humble inheriting the earth. The earth is inherited by those forgiven and changed and who delight in God.

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Amen!

must sleep but will be back with you tomorrow goodnight I Love You, Gods kids

Is there a way to know ahead of time who will be preaching? I don’t live in the area but I would like to come visit occasionally.

I dont think it was a coincidence that God used him to speak this message here.

Very good sermon. Question arises. Since Jesus quoted from Deuteronomy when he said that the greatest commandment is to love God, does the passage in Deuteronomy say that you shall love the Lord your God FROM your heart like the greek version in the NT?

Is this from the 2022 Puritan Conference at Grace?

Our LORD, GOD and SAVIOUR did create the simplest fabric (H²O) to sustain all of life here on earth. Just as the Jordan and the Euphrates are made of this fabric, so to also are the Bow and the Elbow. 🌹LIFE IS BUT A VAPOUR (H²O)🌹 HOLY BIBLE Habakkuk 3:9 Thy bow was made quite naked (bare), according to the oaths of the tribes (oaths were sworn over your arrows), even thy word, Selah. Thou didst cleave ( divided) the earth with rivers. 🙌ALLELUIA🙌 A-men' 🌿

Until we completely understand this can we truly really know Him?! Lord make anything else that I delight in above you be total rubbish held in comparison to you! My Lord, my God give your people hearts that only want you!

Pray a lot for me I was the victim of a lot of witchcraft and I have a lot of psychological problems depression anxiety etc I'm about to go crazy my name is André Gulherme and pray for my family and I'm suffering a lot with envy I need a lot of prayers and jenjum I thank whoever does this for me and I'm Brazilian

Pastor John, you look very much like Frank Sinatra here

Jesus is coming in this generation 🙏🏻

The gospel of I Corinthians 15:1-4 is truth. In v.3 God tells us our sins were forgiven on the cross. In v. 2 God tells us that we are saved when we believe the gospel. I Corinthians 15:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures. Jesus Christ was raised from the dead by the gospel of I Corinthians 15:1-4, as seen in II Timothy 2:8 II Timothy 2:8 8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel. God is great. Please help in sharing the gospel.

I notice in several of pipers sermons the crowd will laugh and laugh at something very important the he is teaching. Can people not handle the truth?

Piper and MacArthur are a contrasting 1-2 knockout combo that work in Biblical harmony

If it's a bad idea, this man can idolize it for over an hour. Very spooky.

Why do they keep laughing in moments I feel are serious? It’s an odd thing to listen to.

The people at Grace Church are laughing at times but Piper is a serious Preacher. They obviously do not know him.

Piper's point starting at 52:02 leading up to the statement, (53:11) "It is confounding and shaming to us that after all God is and has done for us that we could feel no delight in him," is problematic and quite confounding itself, ESPECIALLY considering Piper's theological views, his works in helping people to strive for delight in God who have been unable to, and his own experiences. It may be sinful on our part but it is not confounding that even though God is glorious, he is everything we need and could ever want, and he has already given us so much that we could still not delight in him. Our sin nature even while saved, the weightiness of sorrow and misery in our circumstances that God does not solve or take away immediately or at all in this life, and our constant busyness are all distractions and hindrances to our delighting in God. Also, God's own decision to hide himself and not draw near to us manifestly for his own purposes is the main reason why most Christians don't delight in God and it's important to keep in mind that just as loving God is not synonymous with obeying God but it results in obeying God, delighting in God is not the same as desiring God but desiring God should lead to delighting in God but doesn't always, at least not easily or immediately. All true Christians desire God as a result of their being born again and having the Holy Spirit dwelling in them through their faith in Jesus, but actually delighting in God depends upon God because he is a Person and it is possible and a sad reality for most people that if God give us possessions and goodness up to the world but doesn't give himself then it is impossible to delight in Him. Lucifer fell to sin because God withdrew himself and left him to seek delight in something or someone else and hence Lucifer became an idolater. Since God doesn't create or cause sin, it's the only explanation that makes sense. This could not have happened if God was always manifestly near to Lucifer because God's holy presence is overpowering for the senses and the majesty and loveliness of God compels admiration and worship, but when God withdraws his manifest presence we cannot feel his nearness and enjoy him and because of the way God designed our hearts to long for beauty and pleasure to latch ourselves onto for satisfaction if we can't get it from him we will seek it elsewhere and if God doesn't choose to make himself our chief delight AS WELL AS desire then we cannot make him. Piper knows better than this and also here at 53:37, I think that he should also know that the problem that so-called "reformed" Christians have with the experiential aspect of our relationship with God IS NOT that they believe emphasizing it will diminish the objective, doctrinal glory of God. That God's loveliness is to be experientially enjoyed IS an objective aspect of his glory although it may be experienced differently from person to person, and it is not contradictory to knowing God doctrinally, it is a validation of and the apex of what is know doctrinally. The problem that they have is that they may have never experienced God personally in such a dramatic way as other Christians may claim to have (some of which Christians might also have immature and horrendous doctrine of God btw.) Also, there is not nearly as many Scripture passages about what it like to experience God's presence and communion and how to go about seeking it as there are passages about what his character and personality is like, so all that these such Christians can be left with to rely on is what they see in Scripture and what God has revealed to them or not. I would argue, reverently so, that what is actually perplexing is why God has sovereignly chosen to withhold himself so much and not commune with all of his children more often and dramatically than he does. Perhaps it has to do with his holiness and our lack thereof and he wants to use this distance to increase our longing for what we have to await in Heaven. Whatever the purpose, in all of its perfection, the providence is greivous. I'll just finish by saying that I long to know and experience God a lot more than I do and I respect, admire, and love him more as time goes on and my sin and need is painfully exposed to me by his grace, but it would be a lot more helpful for Christians who supposedly experience God more regularly and easier to not criticize and make such statements as Piper did toward the end of this sermon but instead share their experiences and give guidance as to how the rest of us might have our own one day.

Demons

Hey John! Modern christianity is false. Here's why: Biblical redemption was ONLY from the curse of the old covenant law. That law was ONLY given to old Covenant Israel and has not existed for nearly two thousand years. No one alive today was ever under that law or its curse. The law was never your schoolmaster. You were never kept under the law. Did Christ redeem you from the curse of the law that Paul is referring to in Galatians 3?