john piper the supremacy of god in preaching

There’s another way to say this third reason for why I’m here: I’m here to torch a glacier. There’s no competition between God’s passion to be glorified and your passion to be satisfied, because they are one. So there’s no competition - and this is the marvel, this is the gospel to me, that I discovered in 1968, ’69, and ‘70 as God was doing a work in my life. Because the more we find our satisfaction in him, the more we drink deeply from him and eat at the banquet table which is him, the more his worth and his all-sufficiency is magnified. So the songs that we’ve been singing and the thirst we’ve been expressing are ways of giving glory to God. There is the sentence that I’ll come back to again and again: God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him. Because God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him. That is, to spread a passion for the supremacy of God and to be happy in God are virtually identical. I want you to leave from this place thrilled and happy in God.Īnd the third reason is I want you to see from Scripture that both reason one and reason two are the same reason. Reason number two is that I want to be a little match set to the kindling of your joy.

So that is reason number one for why I’m here. I want to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all of you and all the peoples of this world. So when I got an invitation, read about this conference, saw the word “passion,” and saw the truth behind Isaiah 26:8 - “We wait for you your name and your renown is the desire of our soul” - I was hooked. I think I can say without any hesitation that that’s my life mission as well as the mission of Bethlehem Baptist church.

We exist to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples. About a year ago we produced a vision statement that goes like this: One of the great advantages of being in a local church as a pastor for sixteen to seventeen years is that over the months and years the vision of the church and the vision of the pastor become one. I want to begin by telling you some of the reasons that I’m here.

John piper the supremacy of god in preaching