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16. Express your personal cherishing of the sovereignty of God as the ground of all your hope as you face the human impossibilities of life. The very fulfillment of the New Covenant promises of our salvation and preservation hang on God's sovereignty...
11. Point the hurting to the momentous issues of sin and repentance in our own hearts and the urgent need to get right with God through his merciful provision of forgiveness in Christ, so that a worse fate than death will not overtake us. Luke 13:1-5...
In his blog, John Piper shares five specific benefits from Psalm 119: 67 and 71 that God gives in sending us affliction. He notes that, principally, affliction comes to help us learn God’s word, to understand God’s word and keep it. There are innumerable...
The Bible always has ways of reshaping our perspectives. The writer of Ps. 119 does exactly this when he expounds on one great reason for affliction. As John Piper examines just 8 verses of the longest Psalm, I was reminded of yet another wonderful good...
2 Cor. 1:4 gives us one reason for our sufferings: so that we will experience God's comfort and be able to comfort those who are in any affliction. It doesn't say it is limited to those who suffer in the same way as us, but to any kind of suffering...
Due to a change in schedule, there will not be a fourth message on Suffering as I originally intended. It seems to me that the last message accomplished much of what I would have liked in a fourth sermon, so I feel like it is ok to move on. Even with...
June 10, 2008 | By: John Piper When Christ died he purchased for you the Yes to all God’s promises (2 Cor. 1:20), and that includes the promise to use his sovereign power to govern all the inexplicable, maddening detours and delays of your life for wise...
Very rarely is something that is really worth knowing understood and loved immediately. Many times, we have to think over things, letting them stew in our minds until we see the beauty of the truth and love it. This is a supernatural process. God must...
In seeking to understand the implications of suffering for me, I found this blog entry by John Piper to be helpful: The Cost of Knowing & Showing Christ May 30, 2008 | By: John Piper Category: Commentary I suspect Paul’s experience when he was caught...
It is important to see that in the absolute worst situation imaginable (the slaughter of the totally pure Lamb of God), there was an incomprehensible good that was planned. “ For those who love God, all things work together for good ” ( Rom. 8:28 ). When...
The worst evil (the slaughter of the Lamb of God) was done to bring about the greatest good imaginable: the praise of God’s glorious grace. There was no other way to display the glory of the grace of God. Is God’s grace glorious enough in our eyes that...
One example of God ordaining an event he holds the human agent totally responsible for is found in Jer. 25:8-9, 12 . It is clear that even though the king of Babylon is doing the bidding of God, he will be held responsible for what he does: 8 “Therefore...
Scripture never attributes moral evildoing to God, even while it emphasizes that he has ordained and brings about what is evil. To attribute moral evildoing to God merely because he ordains and brings into being what is evil is to make a “category mistake...
Our Only Real Comfort and Hope: God Planned It The Bible proclaims time and again, throughout the entire book, that God is in control of everything from tsunamis to sparrows falling from a tree to the hairs on my head. The common comfort given to suffering...
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