God-Centered Self-Understanding

Light + Truth
Episode: 62
Speaker: John Piper
Series: The Transforming Power of the Cross
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:1-9
Playlist: • Light + Truth

[@ReubenDomingo1]

Thank you for this. I have been in the U.S. Army for almost a year now, and it has not been easy. Please pray that I can be faithful to the Lord as I serve the country for the remainder of my contract.

[@maryblessing2205]

You serve an almighty GOD; therefore, stay in the Bible. Pray. Don’t feed the flesh . (lustfully) when you pray, repent any sins. 🙏📖❤️

[@powerman247]

Thank you for you willingness to serve. Your post reminded me of these verses. Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. Serve the Lord Christ. - Colossians 3:23-24 LSB Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith brings about perseverance. And let perseverance have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. - James 1:2-5 LSB Put your trust in the Lord and lean not in your own understanding.

[@johnbarnette1815]

Wow brother I will pray for you! 88-91 army infantry

[@AHardesty]

Hello, Rueben! I was curious about you, as I’m ALSO a fellow brother in arms AND in Christ! It seems like you and I are on the same base! My mind is blown!! 🤯 (my name is Austin H) I’ve been in nearly 3 years now and I would LOVE to meet some time! Let me know if you wanna get connected and want a fellow brother to hang out with! (Im Air Defense, btw)

[@ReubenDomingo1]

@@AHardesty Any way I can contact you?

[@jessief5017]

Amen. How glorious and comforting that it’s His faithfulness!

[@READOBADIAH]

If God promises you something then gives what was promised to you to someone else - how can he be faithful??

[@brandedforchrist]

Do you know if that someone else has also been asking for the same thing long before you even started praying for it? God’s faithfulness is a fact, it’s a truthful statement and cannot be broken, He reigns in eternity and He does all things according to His own will and we who have believed in Him are fully persuaded that He will do what He has promised

[@READOBADIAH]

@@brandedforchrist (Obadiah 1:9-10) To the end that "EVERYONE" of the mount of ESAW may be "cutoff" by SLAUGHTER for thy VIOLENCE against thy BROTHER JACOB shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be CUTOFF FOREVER (Obadiah 1:18) And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of ESAW for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall NOT BE ANY REMAINING of the house of ESAW for the LORD hath SPOKEN IT (Malachi 1:2-4) yet I loved Jacob, And I hated E. S. A. U and they shall call THEM, The border of "WICKEDNESS" and, THE PEOPLE against whom the Lord hath indignation FOREVER (☝️ before Christ's sacrifice) (Romans 9:13) Jacob have I loved but Esaw have I hated (☝️after Christ's sacrifice) (Hebrews 12:16-17 kjv) Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as ESAW when he would have inherited the blessing, he was REJECTED: for he found NO PLACE OF "REPENTANCE" ☝️Will he fulfill the promise of destruction to this ethnicity of people - or did he change his mind??

[@Callummullans]

Don’t set your hopes on the world but in heaven, don’t store up treasures on earth but treasures in heaven

[@janwright4511]

Praying for you right now that your soul will hold fast to Him as His hand holds fast to you🙏🏼

[@julieschneider8335]

called to be....for the glory of God. So well explained! Thank you!

[@READOBADIAH]

Isaiah 45:12 - Isaiah 46:13 ☝️ You should actually read the bible

[@bobbydawkins3]

Gorgeous message! Then again, it is John Piper😊

[@connystardust9957]

From Germany: So important to know, so precious ! Praise to the LORD for everyone who received the grace to hear HIS call ! The really chosen ones ! A life-changing event for me ! But rarely to be found in the churches I visit. They listen and listen to sermons and pursue all kinds of activities. After decades you notice no change at all in their lives.

[@maryblessing2205]

Germany’s people over time have been deceived. Don’t fall into the secular trap of lies against the Bible. 🙏📖❤️🙏📖❤️🙏

[@TheCreepypro]

remind us who we are Lord only You can tell us!

[@RG-hf6rc]

I didn’t know I needed that today. Thank you.

[@anal.mendoza]

Amen to that!

[@mrmotozen]

Thank you for these words, Pastor. I get so much out of your preaching, especially when I listen to the podcast, follow along in the transcript, and read The Word from the passages where you are teaching from.

[@pinkroses135]

I agree with the monergism. I heard that i and p in the calvinist tulip lol

[@Lili-Benovent]

We have fasted for the required time and have observed the rituals of Baal, Tanit and Moloch. Tonight we partake of the Mandrake root to bring us closer to our inner selves and the spirits we serve, our rituals invoke the spirit of our beloved Lord Ahriman and we introduce sacrifices to our God Moloch the Devourer. Our offerings will ensure the harvest for the coming seasons will be plentiful. We renounce the false Prophet Jesus and all his teachings. O Lord Ahriman we renounce the teachings of the evil prophet Jesus, accept the sacrifices of your devotees and take our offerings as a token of our love. Blessed be.

[@brandedforchrist]

I can’t even imagine how disturbed you must be for you to come on a Christian channel to say all these delusional nonsense.. Your false gods cannot even give you peace of mind and that’s why you felt the need to come here to tell us how blind and deceived you are.. I pray that your present blindness doesn’t last forever, I pray that God in mercy will quicken you to life together with Christ 🙏🏾❤️

[@timothyflaherty5150]

You think you're funny, but what you're doing is disgusting and foolish. Look in the mirror with the eyes God made for you.The Lord Jesus rebukes you. Repent and believe that the Lord Jesus died for your sins, and live with God in undeserved eternal joy which Jesus gives freely to those who come to him, he is gracious beyond compare. Or, continue the path you are on to keep company with that wretched Devil in agonizing pain, misery and regret. With spittle and mold as your hat, and urine and dung for your dinners, your mirth will be cut short, forever. Again, think otherwise about your sin and feel regret. The Lord is gracious to forgive, and wonderful to know. He is Love, truth, life, wisdom, beauty. His value is thoroughly inestimable, he is GOD! What do you hope to gain from the life you are living in opposition to the living and holy God?

[@Adam-gm5tm]

There is no Gospel under Calvinism. If you are of the elect than you were never in danger of going to hell. If you are not of the elect you never had a Savior, and there is no good news.

[@wh4tevercomest0mind41]

You don’t who is elect and not elect, so just share the gospel

[@Adam-gm5tm]

@@wh4tevercomest0mind41 God is not choosing some people to believe and others to not believe. That is such a weird belief that makes absolutely no sense, and those who believe this have no choice but to believe that God is the author of all sins! We all know that we have the free will to believe or not believe in the Gospel we read in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4.

[@HearGodsWord]

There very much is a Gospel, it's the good news of Jesus Christ. Its those who aren't Reformed who often have a false Gospel, perhaps you're one of them? You didn't take the time to complete your weak points by proving what the correct lens it. It's a typical, limp, projecting anti-Calvinist comment with no substance.

[@Adam-gm5tm]

@@HearGodsWord We read the good news in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4. Calvinism is not needed in order to believe the Gospel we read in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4. In truth, Calvinism adds nothing in order for the Gospel to save. Follow the trail back to Augustine and the Catholic Church. The Gospel has been under satanic attack since the days of Paul as it continues to this day.

[@HearGodsWord]

@Adam-gm5tm good to see that you couldn't demonstrate that there's no Gospel in Calvinism.

[@jn5962]

Pastor, you exhort your listeners to emulate Paul, by: - identifying themselves in relation to God, - internalising a psyche that they are "called by the will of God and for the glory of Jesus Christ" into doing the jobs they do. These people ( illustratively: David, Ruth, Dennis, Noel) will say to you; ... dear Pastor: ▪︎tell me how do I know that it was God who sent me to the job I am now doing? ▪︎did God tell you that I am preordained to be financial planner, or teacher, or attorney or a homemaker? ▪︎where can I find anything or document confirming that I am destined by God, to do the work I do? Now Pastor, a stranger knocks at your door, saying: "Hi, good morning. I am an inspector, appointed by the Government. Please let me into your house", ☆ wouldn't you first check his credentials to verify if he is indeed who he says he is, before opening the door? So, you referred to Paul's letter to the Corinthians, as Paul identifying himself with God. - "Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, ...." 1 Co 11:9 Now, go, thoroughly investigate in the Bible, to verify whether Paul is who he said he is: "apostle appointed by the will of God". These are my findings: ▪︎Paul, who claimed to be resident in Jerusalem as student of Gamaliel, was unknown and unheard of until Acts 8:1. ▪︎In all three years of Jesus's public ministry, it is incredulous that Paul had never once met Jesus in person. ▪︎Paul clearly had no knowledge of Jesus’s teachings - because he never once quoted Jesus! ▪︎Nowhere, not even a slightest hint, in the entire Bible foretold of Paul’s coming (unlike John, the Baptist). ▪︎Paul had no witness testifying, "yes, what Paul says is true". Ananias (who allegedly removed the scales off Paul’s eyes), was never heard from nor seen again. So, all we have is Paul making verbal and unsubstantiated claims to be representing Jesus, by order of God. Now, isn't Paul that stranger at the door? Paul says the person in the "bright light" he saw on the way to Damascus, was Jesus - who blinded his eyes, and who later commissioned him into service. Now, please ponder over these: ▪︎would God come as a" bright light" to a person, then blind his physical eyes and force him into servitude to Himself? Answer: Surely not! ▪︎was the person in the "bright light" the devil himself? "For even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light." 2 Co 11:14 ▪︎wasn't the deep hatred Paul showed at Stephen's martyrdom, and subsequently to the followers of Jesus, synonymous with that of the devil? Finally, if Paul is correct that God did appoint him apostle, then God had made a costly mistake for not co-opting him earlier to avoid all the persecution he exacted on the followers of Jesus? So Pastor, ask yourself: are you edifying your listeners, or are you "blinding" them, like Paul?

[@jn5962]

@@coreysparks2311 I welcome your response. Thanks! Please allow me express my opinion, below. Yes, for sure God wouldn't wish upon anyone to sin by persecuting, even killing people, let alone His chosen. So, Saul (Paul) took to commit the grievous act of killing Stephen. There's nothing in the NT that named another person whom Saul had arrested or killed. This is odd. God’s perfect plan and timing, can be understood through a telescopic view of a time that is coming: Rev 21:3-6 3 I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, “Look, God’s home is now among his people! He will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them. 4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.” 5 And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!” And then he said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.” 6 And he also said, “It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega-the Beginning and the End. To all who are thirsty I will give freely from the springs of the water of life. 7 All who are victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will be their God, and they will be my children." Sin brings "death, sorrow, crying and pain" - hence the sin nature in those who are to live with God, must be eliminated. ▪︎Yours, mine and other's sin-nature must be removed to prevent new sins from occurring. ▪︎The sacrifice that Jesus gave of himself will erase all our former sins, as though they never were. ▪︎Then, a sinner that once was, is made holy, made able to live with God and with like-abled fellow humans. Jesus laid out the way: Jn 14:6 “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me." and, Jn 11:25-26 25 Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. 26 Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. Do you believe this, Martha?” So you see, the "salvation is free, by faith, by God's grace" is a lie. The one who believes in this falsehood will retain his/her sin-nature, and can never hope to receive eternal life.

[@brandedforchrist]

@@jn5962 What a pity 😞

[@nullskull6860]

Many logical fallacies and misunderstandings of the scripture in your words

[@jn5962]

@@nullskull6860 I must tell you the truth: ▪︎You have chosen Paul, the false apostle and false teachers of today, believing them to bring you words of salvation. ▪︎You have accordingly spurned the Saviour, Jesus Christ, the Messiah sent by the LORD God. God isn't with you. Mark my words: - the day will come when you will recall and realise these things I have said to you were true. I have spoken to you as one, a disciple of 34 years and who has traversed the full stretch of Jesus's Way: John 14:6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me." I tell you the truth: ▪︎I have come to the Father, my Father Who is the LORD God. ▪︎My Father has been teaching me many things, and has revealed His plan for this corrupted world. ▪︎Paul is a servant of the devil, teaching errors to distort God's words and to undermine the His plan. ▪︎Only those who choose to believe, obey and follow the Way of Jesus Christ, will receive eternal life.

[@JohnSmith-ir9wx]

Calvinist heresy