Lord Christ Jesus, bless you copiously Pastor John Piper! I praise Our Heavenly Father, Our Messiah, and The Holy Paraclet for your life and bountiful ministry. Amen

Thank you Lord God Almighty for this man whom you have put to feed your sheep. He is amazing.

Wow! Cutting to the bone and marrow. Lifting to the highest certainty. Healing to the depths others cannot reach.

This is indeed what the Bible says. Pastor John is the innoculating syringe in the hand of the Great Physician's Spirit. I thankfully praise the Lord for faithful teachers! Thank you Lord Jesus! Thank you Dr John Piper and everyone at DGM!

This was so helpful to understand sin.

Outstanding sermon!!! Very eye opening and heart waking up...o, how desperately we all need Jesus Christ as our shield 🛡️

Praise the Lord 🙌🏻🙌🏻

To me it is loving things that can't love you back in other words the the things of this world the Bible so vehemently says we should reject. From what I have seen Satan is fashioning a new golden calf every second for us to put on the throne that should only belong to Jesus the only one who will love us back with an unimaginable grace beyond the full comprehension of man.

This was amazing! I love that definition of faith.

The essence and root of all sin is the objection and intolerance of creatures toward the right and authority of God to sovereignly do whatever he pleases, in that he can and does decide to withhold from us satisfying pleasure in himself and yet also demands that we not seek supreme, satisfying pleasure in anything else. In other words, as creatures made in the image of God with an indomitable desire for pleasure at all times, we cannot live without the pursuit of pleasure so if we are not enjoying God our Creator supremely for satisfaction, which is something he must grant and we cannot take or demand from him, then we are bound to seek it elsewhere yet we cannot ever fully grasp it elsewhere so we are always dependent on God while also being subject to his righteous ordinance to not do what we are bound to do if he withholds himself, namely seek satisfaction elsewhere. This makes all of us consciously or unconsciously angry, indifferent, and untrusting of God in our core because we want full control of our pleasure at all times and we don't cope well with being subject to God's will which very often includes depriving us of satisfaction, and we also don't want to be restrained under law from seeking satisfaction in any other pleasure that may be available to us, both of which are reasons why Lucifer sought to dethrone God and take the means and object of his satisfaction into his own hands when he was not fully experiencing pleasure all the time. Lucifer sinned because he was not fully satisfied in God and thus wanted to be God in order to seize control of his own satisfaction and not have to deal with repercussions for any desires and pursuits he may have. God condemned Lucifer for his sin (intolerance of God's sovereign prerogative and his plans to regulate pleasure by his own will rather than by the preference and wiring of creatures) and when banished, Lucifer became Satan and deceived Eve and Adam that they could take their satisfaction into their own hands knowing that they couldn't because he couldn't, and when Adam took the bait Satan became the spiritual master of all mankind, thus dominating our will and decisions with the rebellious attitude and preference that he has so that we cannot worship God because we like him are so angry and dissatisfied with God's nature and the way he runs the world and our lives, many times subjecting us to deprivation and pain in the name of his "good purposes," which we deny can be truly good because they don't align with ours. God will not and cannot yield to our preferences and demands in his nature, character, and the manner in which he rules, but he can give us new hearts that bow to his nature, preferences, and demands, and he does this miraculously and independently in our new birth when the Holy Spirit gives us a grand foretaste of the satisfaction that we long for in Jesus Christ when we hear the Gospel, if we are the elect, then last we are enabled to and will repent and place our faith in him so that we can begin enjoying him as we were made to. Everyone's problem with God that gave rise to sin is that we don't like how God applies his sovereignty when it includes displeasure being experienced and punishment upon us for how we respond to his depriving us of pleasure, and the only remedy is for God to give us sufficient foretastes of the complete satisfaction we long for which we then respond to in faith and worship up until the time when our nature is fully changed and made sinless and God's glorious presence and blessings can be fully enjoyed.

@calebmills1446

5 ай бұрын

Sin is so basic, yet complex. It's a desire for autonomy

@phieble

5 ай бұрын

@@calebmills1446 Yes. Sin is basically the deception and prideful persistence of trying to obtain satisfaction and righteous status apart from the Creator God who designed us to only be satisfied in him and who alone is righteous and is able to make us righteous in his sight. The way sin manifests itself is complex, pervasive, and ugly and our only hope of deliverance is the Lord Jesus, so I pray that we all are granted that saving grace in Christ alone! ❤

Any chance a link could be added for the book he references?

How do I find next part of this please ??

Paul is saying exactly that in Galatians. That NO ONE can be justified by law.... It is only the grace of GOD and ONLY the grace of GOD that provides salvation. Judaism's talk of grace is there --because GOD'S SYSTEM WAS ALWAYS BASED ON FAITH AS THE WAY GRACE IS OBTAINED BUT IN JESUS' DAY, the practicing Jews -- esp those in high positions had become lost and were relying on themselves for justification. Period.

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Me: Indolence!

As a Calvinist, how can there be sin if GOD is causing EVERYTHING to happen?

@overcookedcooki5285

6 ай бұрын

Well, I don't know. Even if God isn't "causing everything to happen" we still don't get an answer. It is an intrinsic, Christian problem we don't get am answer to. There is simply no way (according to what lack of an answer we can find in scripture) that Satan could sin if it wasn't in him to be able and further will to, and there's no way Hh couldn't will to unless he was created with that desire in him. I'm not saying I'm answering your question, but consider this: why would God be at fault, why would it be wrong for God to potentially have inserted sin into Satan if it was for His own glory? Then, consider this, why do you want an answer? Why does Calvinism depend on this answer, and could it be just a Christian answer? Don't take me for one with answers, I just have a Bible, and a will to humbly accept it's truth no matter the cost, because understanding a hard truth means seeing the greater God, most likely, because, from what I can see, focusing only on what makes us feel good, and making that truth, risks losing aspects like the depravity of man and God's free grace. I hope I've helped you today, God bless.

@leotk4251

4 ай бұрын

I invite you to reason the fact that God will not create another God, whenever He creates something, that something is not God, that something is not as perfect as He is, from there we could move to the next fact, God is always working in His chosen creatures to bring them to the place He desires, the consummation of that work is infinitely more beautiful when His Image, the Only One that can represent Him, became the fruit of dirt to save dirt, not only that but a salvation executed through the torment, pain and suffering of a God that is the exact representation of the Only Immortal, He can’t be measured or reached by any creature, o even seen, The One who lives on unreachable light. God did not create sin, He only did not duplicate Himself.

This is SO destructive. Going through life having been told you're nothing, that you're broken is horrible. I know--I did it for 40 years. it wasn't easy but I got myself OUT of the cult of Christianity and my life's been the best ever since.

@tubecrazy3000

8 ай бұрын

Could you expand on that thought? Sounds like an interesting experience you went through. (Not undermining your experience by calling it merely interesting just am at a loss for a better word).

@DOno293

8 ай бұрын

So destructive. Are you saying You've wasted 40 years on a cult, felt you're good enough, then you are out? You haven't even seen even the tiniest glimpse of God's hatred and wrath and fury on your sins for 40 years to feel you are living the your best life now. Oh, how broken still you are and even leading others to destruction while you were never a Christian to begin with. Repent and turn back from your evil ways, you teacher of lawlessness!

@HearGodsWord

8 ай бұрын

What worries me is the cult you got into after apparently leaving Christianity, though your summary of it doesn't match up to what Christianity actually is.

Sin is not a thing; your moralizing entropy into a mystical force. And extrapolating that excess is a form of entropy in opposition to cold robotic functionality, meaning all recreation is deemed evil; but so called "sin" is required for functionality, pride is required for sanitation and preventing exploitation; otherwise your unkempt and easily taken advantage of. Greed is required for productivity, lust is required for reproduction. paradise is the trap of apathy that leads to the depravity you fear. With an easy life the mind has no challenges they have no character tempered and they fill up their time with new problems and distractions and you get the mouse utopia No philosophy supports excess. Not even classical hedonism, which was more about _(accept happiness because this world is filled with very few moments of it)._ Hard times build strong men, strong men build the American dream, the american dream builds liberals, liberal collapse society. The weak men die off. Hard times build strong men

This is a blessing an eye opening. Thank you Jesus Christ.