Thanks for the helpful overview.

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🌏✝️ Isaiah 61:1 Thank God I will always honor my marriage and. Kim Walker. Matthew 1:18-24

Thank you and God bless you Pastor John

Great teachings there Dr. John Piper, may God bless and keep u.

Main Point: The Plan, Goal and Instructions for Living in the Body of Christ

The fact is that there are uncountable denominations in Christianity proof that the true unity is but a few shall enter into God's rest. Matt7:13..., and those who find it are few.

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Though there is often much unity between them as well.

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@@HearGodsWord - Earthly unity cannot p!ease G-d.

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@@gojohnnygo3209 if 'earthly' unity doesn't please God then our disunity can't displease him. Just following your logic through.

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@@HearGodsWord - earthly unity leads to disunity, because they are under the curse of the Law. Proof: Every leader in this world want peace and every religion including Christianity teach on peace and love for more than 2000 years, but where is it? Christian prosecute Christian, Muslim prosecute Muslim, Jews prosecute Jews, even today.

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@@gojohnnygo3209 so you're complaining about both disunity and unity then! 😅

In accordance with this word and ephesians 4:1-16, jude 1:4, 2 corinthians 6:14-18 I bind myself, my family, friends, colleagues, neighbours, acquintances, opponents and the body of Christ freed of every unequal yoke and common share of truth and love with those where there is no unity of spirit in truth and love in accepting Christ as Lord and savior while binding one in unity in truth and love and binding to hell all disunity of truth and love in the body of Christ and binding to hell ungodly people dead in trespasses and sins being a member of the body of Christ, in the name and blood of Jesus Christ, amen and hallelujah!

Great teaching! What do you use to illustrate scripture and write on it? That is such a helpful tool for churches. Please let, me know if that's possible to use a tablet or phone to display on the screen.

Nice 8.19.23

(From Oct 22, 2020) “In a recent blog post, popular pastor John Piper asserts Republicans aren’t morally rigid enough. Whipping out the ultimate tool in the pastor’s complexifying toolbox, he employs biblical Greek to add authority to his case against Trump and against voting at all. (Some pastors love to do this. It is their way of saying “don’t try this at home.”) He says the president is guilty of “unrepentant sexual immorality (porneia), unrepentant boastfulness (alazoneia), unrepentant vulgarity (aischrologia), [and] unrepentant factiousness (dichostasiai).” One wonders how he knows Trump is unrepentant and precisely how he can be blamed for a factiousness. Did the president concoct a Russia collusion narrative? Did he spy on Hillary Clinton’s campaign? Did he illegally use the FBI to push false evidence? Did he do anything justifying impeachment? Did he support the looting, burning, and rioting in our streets? Did he take money from China through a family member serving as a proxy? As for his vulgarity and boastfulness, I suggest Piper get out more. Trump is fairly typical of the chest-beating, plain-speaking businessmen one finds in places like New York, New Jersey, Boston, and Philadelphia. Piper then uses a similarly fallacious argument of moral equivalence to that of Keller, suggesting that abortion is no more sinful than Trump’s hubris: I think Roe is an evil decision. I think Planned Parenthood is a code name for baby-killing and (historically at least) ethnic cleansing. And I think it is baffling and presumptuous to assume that pro-abortion policies kill more people than a culture-saturating, pro-self pride. By my count, Trump’s “self-pride” has killed no one. Indeed, he has transformed the judiciary, and in the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court there now exists the first real chance in decades to overturn the murderous Roe v. Wade decision. As president, Trump has even kept us out of silly wars, preserving yet more human life. But for Piper, Trump’s hubris is reason enough to abstain from voting. I am reminded of a quotation attributed (perhaps inaccurately) to George Orwell: “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” Orwell or not, the sentiment is true. Like many of those who do violence on our behalf for the sake of our freedom, Trump is a rough man. That’s too much for Piper. Oddly, Piper represents a segment of the evangelical population that demands his president bear the characteristics of an elder, pastor, or high priest. This runs counter to the biblical narrative. I am thinking of how the Lord used not merely ungodly kings, but outright pagan kings like Nebuchadnezzar and Darius to render justice on behalf of his people. In Esther chapters 4-8 we see Mordecai, a Jew, appeal to King Xerxes through his queen, Esther, to save the Jews from the plot of Haman. The king responds decisively and destroys the plotters. This story is not altogether different from the situation we face insofar as the lives of the unborn are at stake to say nothing of where the Left’s radical agenda will lead us as a nation. But in Piper’s estimation, Xerxes is no better than Haman. There is a difference between private sin and public policy, and it would be foolish to confuse the two. Does Piper make the same demands of his barber, his mechanic, his accountant, or his surgeon? Or does he look for someone who can do the job competently? Conclusion Tim Keller and John Piper have had long, fruitful ministries. No doubt both are under a great deal of pressure to declare decisively on this election. Moreover, Keller is battling pancreatic cancer and deserves our prayers and well wishes. That said, I believe both are egregiously wrong in this instance. Matthew 24:24 tells us the time will come when even the elect will be led astray. Such is the power of the “social justice” lie. Like Satan masquerading as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14), social justice-in this case, the thin end of a socialist wedge-holds out the hope of heaven on earth. But it cannot deliver on such promises. In her book The Russian Revolution, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick superbly characterizes the socialist revolutionary spirit: All revolutions have liberté, égalité, fraternité, and other noble slogans inscribed on their banners. All revolutionaries are enthusiasts, zealots; all are utopians, with dreams of creating a new world in which the injustice, corruption, and apathy of the old world are banished forever. They are intolerant of disagreement; incapable of compromise; mesmerized by big, distant goals; violent, suspicious, destructive. … They have the intoxicating illusion of personifying the will of the people, which means they assume the people is monolithic. They are Manicheans, dividing the world into two camps: light and darkness, the revolution and its enemies. They despise all traditions, received wisdom, icons, and superstition. They believe society can be tabula rasa on which the revolution will write. It is the nature of revolutions to end in disillusionment and disappointment.… All revolutions destroy things whose loss is soon regretted. It is the nature of socialist revolutions to end in “disillusionment and disappointment” because, as we have already noted, they begin with the wrong premise: there is no God. * * * * * The forces of darkness threaten to engulf this land as they have engulfed so many before it. They cannot be allowed to succeed. But if good men and women do nothing, how can we expect a different result? Let us exercise our freedom to choose our leaders judiciously as we pray for our nation.”” Larry Alex Taunton

I love Pastor John's teaching. However, every time he gets to the part about apostles and prophets, he speaks of them as something God ordained in the past and is no longer relevant today. The word "foundational" he used in this video states that is the case. I've watched many of his videos and the apostles and prophets are always regarded as a thing of the past. The problem with that idea is you will not find that they were an "in the past" office of the church. The Bible simply does not say that they are no longer relevant.