What Is the Joy of All Your Joys? - John Piper - 2014

[@kathleenwharton2139]

Joy of All Joys! Finding the Pearl of great price! Finding the TRUE Jesus! That HE has Delivered me From all the evil opinions of Men and women!

[@louiejohnluna9812]

thank You Lord for the message.

[@jcwood96]

Right, John. God’s glory is inextricably tied up in His love for us.

[@cullennally615]

Thank you

[@charitymachiela9754]

Pastor Piper, I can understand of feelings of being unloved. For example, even though verses in Ephesians 1 tells us that God planned, in the beginning, to choose us, to love us, to adopt us for His pleasure. The problem was, for me, as I was plagued with doubting thoughts, "Would if I lose my salvation, then what is the point of believing and celebrating those verses because I had no confidence in myself to keep myself in the hands of God. My righteousness was filthy as rags." I was truly beating my heart like the Publican's prayer. But when I learned and decided to choose to believe that I can never lose my salvation because of my faith alone, I was so transformed. I was a believer trapped in torments of doubt that the devil placed on me. Such hell on earth. I decided that I will not listen to the other side of the argument, at least, for a long time, because they sound so convincing and they have scriptures to back it up. The problem was I was seeing the trees and not the whole forest of God's word. I bought a book to help me to see the whole forest. (by Kenny Medlin) Now that I believe in the eternal security of God, I can truly experience his continual forgiveness, peace, love, and joy and celebrate and worship God for his wonderful Word. I can now read His Word with anticipation of what He has for me, WITHOUT FEAR. If there is a correction, it is without dread of judgment, but of love and grace for me to overcome sin and be changed from glory to glory. I am so thankful for God's patience over my life. As you can see, I can just keep going and going, so I am going to stop now. :) Thank you for your service to God to help us in our life's journey.

[@darkwaterrage]

OMG “same wants, new source” that was me until like five months ago 🙌🏼

[@dannyboyz7061]

"I care more about nominal hell-bound Christians who believe God loves them then I do about genuine heaven-bound Christians who don't feel God loves them." Is John saying he feels this way? Does anyone else feel this way, and do you feel this should describe all Christians or should only certain people feel this way as some sort of personal calling?

[@SowingWonder]

Well, I think it's important to include the next two sentences he says, otherwise it's wildly out of context; but by itself it is concerning. Right afterwards though he does make it clear that he is speaking of his worry, not neccessarily his care.