I am a 62 year old widow who literally lost everything and 3 years ago began studying the Word after leaving the Catholic church at the age of 20 and this is the very first time that I felt an understanding to our Father's message. I am in tears and in such awe from this glorious message given by our Father - through this man who is chosen to 'preach' our Father's words to us. John Piper is certainly chosen for I have NEVER heard such truth of spirit come from ANY person as it did from him in this message. I am so moved I can find words. THANK YOU!
The BOLDNESS and at the same time HUMILITY of my dearest Pastor John Piper just blows my mind, just seeing him in this so-called christian church, talking how he's talking about what he's talking.... Hallelujah & Amén for his life in Christ!!!! Thank you Pastor John!!!!
God, what a husband! Lord bless Piper and his loved ones! What I would have given to have a husband like him... At 67, Christ Jesus is my friend, husband, and my everything. ✝️
My son told me to listen to Pastor John Piper and What a blessing God has shown me through him Im 60 years old and I’ve never been so glorified in the word as I am as when Pastor speaks Praise be to God,for Pastor Piper And my son for not keeping him a secret May God bless you all
'The essence of Love is not doing but delighting, when the object of that love is God', John Piper. Lord, please, give us a zeal that doesn't inspire us or enlarge our knowledge about You. All we want is to treasure You as the precious Rock you are. Please, melt our hearts by the transforming power of Your Joy to get us firstly and ultimately delighted in You . Thank you, dear Pastor. God bless you.
I have like 50 books of John MacArthur, I have books of J. I Paker, I have books from C. S Lewis but the presentation of the Word by John Piper is surpassing my experience with these other great preachers. He really is a gift to the church. greetings from Guatemala
Wow! I'm not even done listening yet, but I just wanted to say how much this blesses me to hear this. I'm sitting in my studio doing a painting, listening to this and saying "God...yes! I get to be with you! You've been with me in blessings and in trials. You are my portion!" My hand left hand goes up in praise as my right hand paints. How can you resist the presence of God? He is so sweet. There's nothing, no pleasure on this earth that compares! My soul magnifies the Lord! Thank you, John Piper and Desiring God ministries for bringing this delightful banquet to me today!
John’s your comments and sermons on job especially help me with my illnesses. Please continue and don’t stop preaching on job! The recent ones has been great! Please continue to talk about suffering! It is so soothing to me since I’ve suffered so long.. and can’t even live sometimes
I have never heard such a message, I laughed I cried and I saw God for the first time, a God in whom I can experience,. Experience him in the taste of honey, in the birth of a baby, and in the act of making Love to my husband, I am in tears. My eyes have been open to a whole new light of love and joy! As I come together with my husband, I know now I am experiencing God and as I put aside my will and submit to my husband’s well, i believe a spiritual shift takes place and now my spirit can go in and through,; then and only then I connect to His presence and experience God!! I hope this will bless a married couple. My life and my marriage has been changed forever, Thank you ever so much Pastor John Piper
❤🤍✨🕊️How wonderful to hear! It’s been four years since you posted this message, I hope you have continued your journey with John Piper! He also transformed my life, along with Dallas Willard. I thank God and the Lord Jesus everyday for their spiritually transformative work. Because of their work, I have recognized my own calling to be a servant of Christ. Amazing that even at this point in my life, I am changing careers from senior Occupational Therapist and going back to school to be a teacher doing the Lord’s work. ✝️ If someone would have told me this three years ago, I would have never believed them! But just as Saul of Tarsus said to Jesus before his conversion, “Who are you, Lord?” , I also have had little doubt about the meaning of what the Lord has been saying in His own way to me. 🙏🏼✨🕊️ Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ✝️
I have cried buckets listening to this sermon. Best love story ever told. Its a wonderful feeling to delight in God. Thank you Pastor John. May God abundantly bless you.
Look at all the souls in yiur audience ! Praise god ; there is hope! At times I feel all hope for “Nineveh” is lost; then I see this?! Praise God! Baruch HaShem Adonai!
Never in all my many years have I had the pleasure to revel in God's presence through this most excellent and heartwarming teaching on how to enjoy God. Thank you John Piper for confirming the truth about how to go about truly delighting in the presence of our precious Lord. Right now tears of joy are manifesting for the one I love more than anything else. I need nothing more than Him.
Thank you John Piper for faithfully preaching the glory of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ. What a blessing this man is. This message stirred a fire in my soul to recalibrate my affections and focus on the only thing that will ever matter - God and God alone. May God bless John Piper and Louie Giglio!
In His presence is fullness of Joy.. Once used an inappropriate line to express being in His presence; like having an orgasm in every cell of your being.. One moment in Your court is better than a thousand in another. Pastor Piper is always passionate and a joy to listen to and be fed by. Thank you for sharing🙌🙏✝️❤️
I began listening to Pastor John 3 years ago to help with understanding the Bible. His passionate love for God is an incredible gift God's given us in him. Now I put his playlist on and listen through the night as I've not been sleeping but drift off and dream of what he's teaching. Thank you for Pastor John Piper God XOX
Wow!!! All the things God gave us to enjoy in life and giving us Himself to enjoy can be compared to one grain of sand and the sun. The grain is (things) and the sun is (God)!!! What an exceeding great reward our Blessed Lord is and the greatest gift we can ever receive... Glory to the Most High God.,
Amen!! Praise Him in the morning, praise Him in the evening, Praise Him all day long because He’s so lovely, He’s so kind, He is such a friend to the very end
I have never heard someone put this into words before. Even though, I have felt and and experienced this in my walk with God. Wish the sound was better on this video. But really appreciate this most important teaching.
The first half of my life I lived trying to be satisfied in the world and the things of the world. I now delight myself in Him. Now I look back and see all those things which I chased after as empty delusions. Things that can only satisfy for a little and which took me away from God. Thank you again John piper for your work.
I really enjoyed this, it was truly refreshing as I blushed as I felt God's presence and weeped bc I'm not worthy of His beautiful delightful life giving presence. Grateful for Your love Father God.
Amen! Praise God! That last story is absolutely wonderful! How, our love for God isn't a duty. It's something we absolutely adore, and have it as our greatest absolutely greatest joy and pleasure in! Amen Lord 💖
I must confess how it's so much easier for me to enjoy a pizza or a football game or some orange juice than it is to enjoy God. Because I am still in the flesh, I find it so much easier to enjoy things that I can touch, I can feel, I can see, I can smell. How can someone so carnal as I enjoy such a Holy Holy Holy God in spirit & in truth? Thank you Lord Jesus for coming down to this world to save your wayward people. Thank you for purchasing such a great privilege for carnal sinners to know the gracious heavenly Father through you. Thank you for sending us the Holy Spirit to remind us of your great love whenever we enjoy a pizza, or a game, or some orange juice and thus delight in You. Thank you for the good work you have begun & thank you for being faithful to complete it. Be glorified Lord Jesus 🙏
If I was one of Job's friends & God was angry with me and directly told me what I said about Him was wrong --man I would be devastated beyond for the rest of my life!!
Tinker Diggens Dear, SO glad for you that you're hearing this at a young age!!! When heard in old age (and saved in later years, too), one of the first thoughts is "Ohmy how I could have been delighting in Him all those years!" When truly saved, redeemed, "born again" we can now give Him so very much praise and thanks and glory for His GREAT, unending, unimaginable love, to want to forgive us, His creations!
I cut my baby teeth on the bible. It was hand fed by my grandmother until I could read it myself age 5 after school started I started reading other things but always loved reading bible stories to myself before bed,
I taste German bread every day, that's why I know god😅. Just a joke. But it's so good to see that everything that exists should be used for us to enjoy God, even breathing the air he has given us, so good.
"How Deep the Father's Love for Us" Original Lyrics by Stuart Townend (verses 1, 3, 5) Additional Lyrics by Sean Morris (verses 2, 4, 6-7) 1. How deep the Father's love for us How vast beyond all measure That He should give His only Son To make a wretch His treasure How great the pain of searing loss The Father turns His face away As wounds which mar the Chosen One Bring many sons to glory 2. How deep the Father’s love for us, - Eph. 3:18 Reveal to us the measure. - Eph. 3:19 Thereby find fullness in Your Son, - Eph. 3:19 Show me the hidden treasure. - Eph. 1:18 His life was lost that I might gain! - 2 Cor. 5:21 The Father turns His face to me! - 2 Cor. 3:17-18, 4:3-6 I’m healed by Christ, the Risen One, - 1 Pet. 2:24 To live for His own glory! - 2 Thess. 1:11-12, Heb. 13:20-21 3. Behold the man upon a cross My sin upon His shoulders Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice Call out among the scoffers It was my sin that held Him there Until it was accomplished His dying breath has brought me life I know that it is finished 4. Behold the Man upon the Throne, - Eph. 1:16-23 Government He shoulders! - Isa. 9:6-7 So earth may hear the Christian voice, - Matt. 10:7-8, 28:18-20, Mk. 16:15-18 Proclaim it is not over! - Rom. 5:10, Php. 1:19-21, 2 Cor. 5:14-21, Rev. 2:26 In righteousness He sits up there, - Acts 2:34-36, 2 Tim. 4:1-2, Rev. Ch. 2-3 To will and to accomplish, - Php. 2:13, Col. 1:9-12 A law of Spirit and of Life; - Rom. 8:2-4 We know it is unfinished! - Rev. 21:6, 1 Pet. 1:5, Php. 2:12 5. I will not boast in anything No gifts, no power, no wisdom But I will boast in Jesus Christ His death and resurrection Why should I gain from His reward? I cannot give an answer But this I know with all my heart His wounds have paid my ransom 6. I will not boast in pow’r-less days, - 2 Thess. 1:11-12 In Christ is power and wisdom. - Eph. 1:19, 6:10, Col. 1:11, Acts 1:8 The gifts are ours in Jesus Christ, - Eph. 4:7-13 Through death and resurrection. - Eph. 4:20-24, Rom. 6:1-13 Why should I waste the Son’s reward, - Eph. 1:18, Matt. 25:14-30 And fail to give good answer, - Matt. 25:24-25 As God does search th' enlightened hearts, - Matt. 25:19, Rev. 2:2-5, 13-14, 19-20, 23, 3:1-5 Which owe because the ransom? - Matt. 25:14, 19, 27 7. How deep the Father’s love for us? From Cross to Throne our answer! Tis finished in truth - that right now, Begins th' unfinished Kingdom! We who for sins in-whole were sold, Now cherish the Lord’s ransom, So now in Christ our claims are bold, To raise th’ eternal standard!
The problem I've always had is I desire SO much to have a close relationship with Him and to love Him above ALL I want Him truly not things but because I cant see/hear/feel Him I find it hard so when I read the bible I know attributes about Him and I have affection to some degree but not overwhelming joy like it should be and when pray I don't feel Him like most people seem to I have doubts of salvation which surely isn't helping I don't doubt Jesus and God promises I doubt my own heart if I decieved myself even though I repented and accepted Christ genuinely I know there is false converts out there false repentant people even how can I know without doubt the Holy Spirit brought me to God and repentance rather than my own emotions and head knowledge ?
Mike Hill I'm going through the exact same doubts and struggles. I often struggle to be excited about knowing God and am all too rarely excited about prayer and reading the Bible. I think it does take a miracle to move from the affection you mentioned, into genuine, passionate love and enjoyment of the person of God, and that for this miracle to be worked in us, we must want that in our lives. The fact that you so clearly desire to be closer to Him is brilliant, and I do as well (most of the time), so I think we move forward with patience and in the confience of God's promises. He promises to help us, which must mean He also helps us in our doubts and unbelief. It is human to doubt, but keep your faith Mike, hold onto it. I don't think you could have a faith and desire to be closer to God such as you have, without God being behind it, drawing you to Him.
Ben Boyum That's true my desire wouldn't be there if God were not involved definitely I will never lose the faith but I to struggle to be excited about the Bible and prayer BUT I want to be excited I want what true Christians have full joy in Him and nothing else matters reading the Bible is the best thing ever I want that but patience is key as you mentioned :)
Mike Hill That's great! It helps me to remember that God won't judge me according to others, or compare me to them, in this case whether other Christians "feel it" more than I do. I am sure He is glorified in your faith now, and will build you up in accordance with His perfect timing :)
I am so so sorry that the organization behind this video needed to monetize it, for as I am listening to Pastor Piper go between whisper and yelling suddenly, and an ad starts not once but multiple times. I am stopping listening to these on TH-cam. I guarantee I would never buy from an advertiser that just wrecked Pastor Piper's message as it was changing me.
@@MadeOfConfusion you must not listen to him too much that's just his style of preaching there's no way to mix his audio normally, without keeping your hand on the fader non stop, only a master engineer could level his preaching out :-)
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I love the sermon. Amazing truths in there. Just curious though, if delight in God is our highest duty, where does that leave the great commission then, sharing the gospel. Not objecting anything, just want to hear some thoughts on that with biblical back up.
The only thing that comes to my mind is "To love God with all of your heart..." verse. I can see this being preeminent because by loving Him above all the result is a pleasing to God- life of complete obedience. "...that's the Law and the Prophets".
I am unsure of my salvation because I do not seem to delight in God or feel any love for Him. I obey Him out of obligation and fear of Hell, rather than obeying out of love. So what do I do now? How do I make myself feel the emotions that are necessary for salvation? Since I am asking God to give me those emotions and I am still not feeling them, does that mean that I am not one of the elect? John Piper often speaks of how delighting in God and treasuring Him above all else is necessary in order to go to Heaven, but what should one do if they do not delight in Him or treasure Him? I'm beginning to lose hope and I think I may be a lost cause.
Search through his word. learn about him. you will see how amazing the lord is. Don't do it out of obligation. You can't make yourself have the emotions. seeing God's amazing character through his word and things that he does in your life will do that. obligation does nothing. I will pray for you!! don't give up!
You're not a lost cause. I pray that the eyes of your heart are opened like the man in Matthew 13:44. Only the Holy Spirit's work in you can cause you to love God with all your heart all your soul and all your strength. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Your obedience out of fear will lead to a delight in the Father and will lead to Christ and the Father making His home in your heart. Ask God for genuine affection and joy in Him, keep asking. You're not alone in struggling with this. I find that writing out His promises as I read them allows me to read slow enough for my affection to build. Give yourself at least 30 uninterrupted and unhurried minutes per day over your open Bible and ask Him to speak to you. Luke 11:9-13.
Dear Kylie. Me too. It was so honest and courageous of you to say it. I am so oppressed. I honestly wonder how to feel like God is kind and loving. I hope you've found peace since you posted. Blessings.
Kylee, I have often experienced the same questions and feared their implications. I will pass on the response of my pastor when I went to him with my fears. He said, "You do not love God, though you wish you could? Good. That is a confession. When the prodigal son realized his failure, he began to travel back to his father to in order to confess his sin and ask only to be a servant in his house. But what did the Father do? 'While he [the son] was still a long way off, his father saw and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him, and kissed him.'" When we confess to God our failure to love him, we are still a long way off. Yet he is filled with compassion for us and runs out to us. We would be lost causes, except that he pursues us (runs out to us)........ Practically, I apply this knowledge by confessing to God the twisted desires of my heart and remembering that "even when we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Then I pray that he would open me and change me to see glimpses of his beauty - especially when I read scripture. Then, I take the advice of C. S. Lewis and act as if I loved God, even if I do not properly love him, in the hopes that as I obey him my heart would begin to turn towards him. I hope that this finds you well.
I wish I could hear this video he speaks so low and then yells and I have the volume all the way up. I could hear this whole sermon but what I can hear... I can tell that it's good
help me understand John 4:24 God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.....but on here Pastor John speaks alot of God is a person? and plz I'm not being funny... trying to understand.
God used to be a human being but he got killed on the cross for teaching his disciples about the Lord jesus christ. Which is him. So when he speaks like this he is talking past tense. God will return brother
@@perma45ACP god is god but is also Jesus who died but was still alive in heaven coz he is god BUT he is also the holy spirit and Jesus and god... makes sense
How can you love God when you don't know if he loves you. There are no verses in the Bible that are positive for women. I really want to know Gods love, but women seem to be created as an after thought and then are created out of a man not the same stuff as the rest of the world. Then they are treated as unimportant except for children. I'm not even sure if a woman can be saved only enslaved. I wish the proof didn't point to that but it does.
Bonnie...I am not a pastor or preacher....but want you to know that God loves the world. More importantly He is love...yes he did create woman from the man...and he did it in love. He created man from dust :-). Please read Genesis 1:26-28. 26 Then God said, “Let us make man8 in our image, pafter our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; rmale and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Note that God created them male and female and he "blessed THEM". The Hebrew root word for blessed means to "ADORE" - bârak, baw-rak'; a primitive root; to kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a benefit)...Creation is one of God's many acts of love or adoration. God knows the end from the beginning, so to Him nothing or no one is an afterthought. We were all born in the condition of sin...lost and had now hope...but god being rich in mercy sent His son. In him you are the beloved and very important as any man. Ephesians 2: 4-10 But3 God, being rrich in mercy, sbecause of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even twhen we were dead in our trespasses, umade us alive together with Christ-by grace you have been saved- 6 and raised us up with him and wseated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in ykindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved athrough faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus hfor good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Christ is the proof you need...put your trust in Him. And find God fearing women, who are trusting in him, to walk with you through this season. There is so much more to this....it will take some time...but God is patient and Kind.
God loves women. God sent his Jesus Christ through a woman, Mary. There's no greater proof that God delights in female gender than this. Carrying the God of the universe in your womb is saying more than saying women are child bearer. It is saying women are the crown of creations and so magnificent.
I used to think this also until i realized that God is protecting us, thus the reason a husband and father will be heald to higher standard for his actions. God bless. Seek the scriptures daily he will help you see. God bless
God LOVES everything (everyone) that he created. Why would he make something that he hates? If he didn't want women, he would have done something different. He made us for a reason. Women are doing great things for God in this day. He LOVES LOVES LOVES you!! Look in his word. Seek him and pray. Read Luke 7:36-50. GOD LOVES YOU!!
The Lord does not look down on women or treat us differently than men. God has made us different to compliment one another. Look how many stories of women are remembered in the NT. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Gal3:28-29
Stop preaching answer first the accusation of Justine Peters about his video implicating you as a big liar in the video "Heavenly Tourism". To all fellow believers don't be fooled by liars.
I like it better when you only saw Piper. Who cares how many people are there. Consant movement to show the audience is distracting. Not even 30 seconds and I'm done.
I don’t even watch the show, I only listen because I’m usually doing other things that I have to take care of, like walking the dogs, or cleaning up. If I’m lucky, I get to sit down and read and write down the scriptutal verses. ❤
The story of the Bible is outdated and needs to better balanced to today's modern day concerns without a preacher having to break down 1 sentence every 20 minutes. Even if you try to break it down and explain the verses to people, they are bored by your stories and that doesn't encourage the brain to be "turned on". - That's TRUTH. - I am not trying to be rude, my apologies for coming across this way, it is my intention to get your attention however. How do you enjoy the bible and the story that is being represented? There is a never ending representation of the works that will bring you to a point of resenting people for their striving to present parables as a mirroring truth. Also, if you understand Gnosticism...you understand whats trumy going on in the stories. Do people understand Gnosticism? All th e writers of the 66 books were Gnostics, Mystics or seers. Believe, their experience with God and Satan are on a MUCH DIFFERENT SCALE than anything we could ever imagine. However, the story has good morals and values. With todays competing story lines, children are losing interest. God bless...
You are a corrupt little human being who, if you lived in Germany in 1939, would rape, steal and participate in genocide. We all would because we are all corrupt. That's why Jesus came to save your corrupt soul.
Forcing yourself to delight and enjoy someone? Praying that you can just actually enjoy someone? That's like the stupidest thing I've heard. You don't have to convince and persuade someone who actually enjoys and loves God to make themselves love and enjoy God. So weird if you have to force yourself to love God you don't love God.
kevlar kevin Since everyone is sinful by nature (corrupt in every part of our being), we can’t and won’t EVER love and enjoy God in our own. Thus, God must, by the Holy Spirit, transform our hearts to love and enjoy him and to be satisfied in him. THAT’S the reason God “forces” us to love him (although he’s making us love the best thing for us in the world: Himself. So it’s not a bad forcing). Would you rather let God not change your heart and go to hell rather than change it and make you go to heaven?
I am a 62 year old widow who literally lost everything and 3 years ago began studying the Word after leaving the Catholic church at the age of 20 and this is the very first time that I felt an understanding to our Father's message. I am in tears and in such awe from this glorious message given by our Father - through this man who is chosen to 'preach' our Father's words to us. John Piper is certainly chosen for I have NEVER heard such truth of spirit come from ANY person as it did from him in this message. I am so moved I can find words. THANK YOU!
Give God the Glory for putting this man in your path🙂
@@miguelsalinas5273 A HUGE AMEN to your comment! Our Lord ALWAYS & FOREVER receives ALL the praise & Glory!!!
God is most glorified in your life when you are most satisfied in Him.
❤ Amen
Amen sister❤️❤️✝️🙏🏿💪🏿📖
"If God is your treasure, He will be your pleasure." 😍
The BOLDNESS and at the same time HUMILITY of my dearest Pastor John Piper just blows my mind, just seeing him in this so-called christian church, talking how he's talking about what he's talking.... Hallelujah & Amén for his life in Christ!!!! Thank you Pastor John!!!!
God, what a husband! Lord bless Piper and his loved ones! What I would have given to have a husband like him... At 67, Christ Jesus is my friend, husband, and my everything. ✝️
Nothing like confronting the prosperity gospel with the book of Job 😅👏🏼 John Piper is definitely one of my favorite pastors
Amén!! 😅
My son told me to listen to Pastor John Piper and What a blessing God has shown me through him Im 60 years old and I’ve never been so glorified in the word as I am as when Pastor speaks Praise be to God,for Pastor Piper And my son for not keeping him a secret May God bless you all
Amen❤❤
Received my brother in Christ God bless you too.
'The essence of Love is not doing but delighting, when the object of that love is God', John Piper.
Lord, please, give us a zeal that doesn't inspire us or enlarge our knowledge about You. All we want is to treasure You as the precious Rock you are. Please, melt our hearts by the transforming power of Your Joy to get us firstly and ultimately delighted in You .
Thank you, dear Pastor. God bless you.
I have like 50 books of John MacArthur, I have books of J. I Paker, I have books from C. S Lewis but the presentation of the Word by John Piper is surpassing my experience with these other great preachers.
He really is a gift to the church. greetings from Guatemala
R.C.Sproul is a best friend of both Pastors Piper and MacArthur
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Wow! I'm not even done listening yet, but I just wanted to say how much this blesses me to hear this. I'm sitting in my studio doing a painting, listening to this and saying "God...yes! I get to be with you! You've been with me in blessings and in trials. You are my portion!" My hand left hand goes up in praise as my right hand paints. How can you resist the presence of God? He is so sweet. There's nothing, no pleasure on this earth that compares! My soul magnifies the Lord! Thank you, John Piper and Desiring God ministries for bringing this delightful banquet to me today!
Fine Art by Matt Philleo
Amen
Amen brother.
Amen!!!!!
Your last name is my goal in life.
Amen
John’s your comments and sermons on job especially help me with my illnesses. Please continue and don’t stop preaching on job!
The recent ones has been great! Please continue to talk about suffering!
It is so soothing to me since I’ve suffered so long.. and can’t even live sometimes
@janelleschultz7025 God bless you, sister. Praying. God is our Rock, no matter what. 🙏🙌He is there for you and me!
God is so good for showing this to me!
I have never heard such a message, I laughed I cried and I saw God for the first time, a God in whom I can experience,. Experience him in the taste of honey, in the birth of a baby, and in the act of making Love to my husband, I am in tears. My eyes have been open to a whole new light of love and joy! As I come together with my husband, I know now I am experiencing God and as I put aside my will and submit to my husband’s well, i believe a spiritual shift takes place and now my spirit can go in and through,; then and only then I connect to His presence and experience God!! I hope this will bless a married couple. My life and my marriage has been changed forever, Thank you ever so much Pastor John Piper
❤🤍✨🕊️How wonderful to hear! It’s been four years since you posted this message, I hope you have continued your journey with John Piper! He also transformed my life, along with Dallas Willard. I thank God and the Lord Jesus everyday for their spiritually transformative work. Because of their work, I have recognized my own calling to be a servant of Christ. Amazing that even at this point in my life, I am changing careers from senior Occupational Therapist and going back to school to be a teacher doing the Lord’s work. ✝️ If someone would have told me this three years ago, I would have never believed them! But just as Saul of Tarsus said to Jesus before his conversion, “Who are you, Lord?” , I also have had little doubt about the meaning of what the Lord has been saying in His own way to me. 🙏🏼✨🕊️ Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ✝️
I have cried buckets listening to this sermon. Best love story ever told. Its a wonderful feeling to delight in God. Thank you Pastor John. May God abundantly bless you.
Our greatest treasure is our GOD and Savior Jesus Christ , more Thn anything this world cud ever think of offering .
Look at all the souls in yiur audience ! Praise god ; there is hope! At times I feel all hope for “Nineveh” is lost; then I see this?! Praise God! Baruch HaShem Adonai!
Never in all my many years have I had the pleasure to revel in God's presence through this most excellent and heartwarming teaching on how to enjoy God. Thank you John Piper for confirming the truth about how to go about truly delighting in the presence of our precious Lord. Right now tears of joy are manifesting for the one I love more than anything else. I need nothing more than Him.
Thank you John Piper for faithfully preaching the glory of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ. What a blessing this man is. This message stirred a fire in my soul to recalibrate my affections and focus on the only thing that will ever matter - God and God alone. May God bless John Piper and Louie Giglio!
If you're going to say something like that then you had better go line by line in depth, if you aren't a POS troll.
In His presence is fullness of Joy..
Once used an inappropriate line to express being in His presence; like having an orgasm in every cell of your being..
One moment in Your court is better than a thousand in another.
Pastor Piper is always passionate and a joy to listen to and be fed by.
Thank you for sharing🙌🙏✝️❤️
Thank you DesiringGod.org ALWAYS, for these resources and for making them accessible to us. Only God will repay. 🙏
God bless you Pastor John Piper. God has used you and is still using you to bless my life. Greater heights I pray.
Absolutely brilliant, your sensitivity to the most beautiful nuance is estraordinary! AmenXinfinity
Just heard this for the first time. God brought it bc it was much needed refreshment. Thank you!
This newness of life, Jesus Christ is aaawwwwsssome!!!!!! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 wooooowhoooo!!!!
"Even our sins bear witness to his worth."
Wow. WHAT A MESSAGE.
HALLE-YAWEH 👑 ✝️! Thank you Holy Paraclet and Advocate! Thank you Christ Jesus!♥️
I began listening to Pastor John 3 years ago to help with understanding the Bible. His passionate love for God is an incredible gift God's given us in him.
Now I put his playlist on and listen through the night as I've not been sleeping but drift off and dream of what he's teaching.
Thank you for Pastor John Piper God XOX
Wow!!! All the things God gave us to enjoy in life and giving us Himself to enjoy can be compared to one grain of sand and the sun. The grain is (things) and the sun is (God)!!! What an exceeding great reward our Blessed Lord is and the greatest gift we can ever receive... Glory to the Most High God.,
God bless you Pastor Piper. Great sermon.
Glory to God Almighty for the grace to live,move and have my being in Him. Amen
Thank you everyone at desiringGod. Beautiful message.
Amen!! Praise Him in the morning, praise Him in the evening, Praise Him all day long because He’s so lovely, He’s so kind, He is such a friend to the very end
Thanks be to God for pastor John Piper
I have never heard someone put this into words before. Even though, I have felt and and experienced this in my walk with God. Wish the sound was better on this video. But really appreciate this most important teaching.
The first half of my life I lived trying to be satisfied in the world and the things of the world. I now delight myself in Him. Now I look back and see all those things which I chased after as empty delusions. Things that can only satisfy for a little and which took me away from God. Thank you again John piper for your work.
You know the tenderness of God through the tenderness of John Piper. Thank you as always for my bread through you, John, in Jesus’ name.
I really enjoyed this, it was truly refreshing as I blushed as I felt God's presence and weeped bc I'm not worthy of His beautiful delightful life giving presence. Grateful for Your love Father God.
Amen! Praise God! That last story is absolutely wonderful! How, our love for God isn't a duty. It's something we absolutely adore, and have it as our greatest absolutely greatest joy and pleasure in! Amen Lord 💖
Beautifully encouraging! Thank you and God's continued blessings on your life and ministry.
I needed and delighted in this message.
Thank you Father for delivering your love thru John.
Pastor John, you really make us leave everything behind and start desiring God... All other things seems scrap.... 👍
This was a huge blessing to hear! Praise God! God bless you all and your walks with Him! love you all(:
God bless you for letting Him give us this Word through you. This is convicting, encouraging and it changes everything!
We pray that the Holy Spirit helps us become the people who find delight in God. Amen.
I want desperatly to return to my first love! Lord renew my passion in You‼️
Praise God for this man.
I love you John thank you and God bless you always for your ministry you are such a blessing! ✔️♥️
I must confess how it's so much easier for me to enjoy a pizza or a football game or some orange juice than it is to enjoy God. Because I am still in the flesh, I find it so much easier to enjoy things that I can touch, I can feel, I can see, I can smell. How can someone so carnal as I enjoy such a Holy Holy Holy God in spirit & in truth? Thank you Lord Jesus for coming down to this world to save your wayward people. Thank you for purchasing such a great privilege for carnal sinners to know the gracious heavenly Father through you. Thank you for sending us the Holy Spirit to remind us of your great love whenever we enjoy a pizza, or a game, or some orange juice and thus delight in You. Thank you for the good work you have begun & thank you for being faithful to complete it. Be glorified Lord Jesus 🙏
Glad he was given the gift of preaching.. some of us were given the gift of failure.
I am sure you have a new song different from this now.
Praise the Lord!
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful 🙏🏾
Love his passion, talking about bread😂🤗
Really touching and enlightening! Thank you!!
If I was one of Job's friends & God was angry with me and directly told me what I said about Him was wrong --man I would be devastated beyond for the rest of my life!!
Tinker Diggens Dear, SO glad for you that you're hearing this at a young age!!! When heard in old age (and saved in later years, too), one of the first thoughts is "Ohmy how I could have been delighting in Him all those years!" When truly saved, redeemed, "born again" we can now give Him so very much praise and thanks and glory for His GREAT, unending, unimaginable love, to want to forgive us, His creations!
Repentance and forgiveness are real in Christ and Jehovah, so if you're are of them, you wouldn't be!
I cut my baby teeth on the bible. It was hand fed by my grandmother until I could read it myself age 5 after school started I started reading other things but always loved reading bible stories to myself before bed,
Oh and corrections always included verses and a whipping .
Hallelujah to the Lamb of God!
Excellent
Glory be to christ
Wow GODS WORD SOUNDS IM LOST FOR WORDS
I taste German bread every day, that's why I know god😅.
Just a joke.
But it's so good to see that everything that exists should be used for us to enjoy God, even breathing the air he has given us, so good.
"How Deep the Father's Love for Us"
Original Lyrics by Stuart Townend (verses 1, 3, 5)
Additional Lyrics by Sean Morris (verses 2, 4, 6-7)
1. How deep the Father's love for us
How vast beyond all measure
That He should give His only Son
To make a wretch His treasure
How great the pain of searing loss
The Father turns His face away
As wounds which mar the Chosen One
Bring many sons to glory
2. How deep the Father’s love for us, - Eph. 3:18
Reveal to us the measure. - Eph. 3:19
Thereby find fullness in Your Son, - Eph. 3:19
Show me the hidden treasure. - Eph. 1:18
His life was lost that I might gain! - 2 Cor. 5:21
The Father turns His face to me! - 2 Cor. 3:17-18, 4:3-6
I’m healed by Christ, the Risen One, - 1 Pet. 2:24
To live for His own glory! - 2 Thess. 1:11-12, Heb. 13:20-21
3. Behold the man upon a cross
My sin upon His shoulders
Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice
Call out among the scoffers
It was my sin that held Him there
Until it was accomplished
His dying breath has brought me life
I know that it is finished
4. Behold the Man upon the Throne, - Eph. 1:16-23
Government He shoulders! - Isa. 9:6-7
So earth may hear the Christian voice, - Matt. 10:7-8, 28:18-20, Mk. 16:15-18
Proclaim it is not over! - Rom. 5:10, Php. 1:19-21, 2 Cor. 5:14-21, Rev. 2:26
In righteousness He sits up there, - Acts 2:34-36, 2 Tim. 4:1-2, Rev. Ch. 2-3
To will and to accomplish, - Php. 2:13, Col. 1:9-12
A law of Spirit and of Life; - Rom. 8:2-4
We know it is unfinished! - Rev. 21:6, 1 Pet. 1:5, Php. 2:12
5. I will not boast in anything
No gifts, no power, no wisdom
But I will boast in Jesus Christ
His death and resurrection
Why should I gain from His reward?
I cannot give an answer
But this I know with all my heart
His wounds have paid my ransom
6. I will not boast in pow’r-less days, - 2 Thess. 1:11-12
In Christ is power and wisdom. - Eph. 1:19, 6:10, Col. 1:11, Acts 1:8
The gifts are ours in Jesus Christ, - Eph. 4:7-13
Through death and resurrection. - Eph. 4:20-24, Rom. 6:1-13
Why should I waste the Son’s reward, - Eph. 1:18, Matt. 25:14-30
And fail to give good answer, - Matt. 25:24-25
As God does search th' enlightened hearts, - Matt. 25:19, Rev. 2:2-5, 13-14, 19-20, 23, 3:1-5
Which owe because the ransom? - Matt. 25:14, 19, 27
7. How deep the Father’s love for us?
From Cross to Throne our answer!
Tis finished in truth - that right now,
Begins th' unfinished Kingdom!
We who for sins in-whole were sold,
Now cherish the Lord’s ransom,
So now in Christ our claims are bold,
To raise th’ eternal standard!
This is the root, that’s fruit…awesome.
"Is God your preference?"
The problem I've always had is I desire SO much to have a close relationship with Him and to love Him above ALL I want Him truly not things but because I cant see/hear/feel Him I find it hard so when I read the bible I know attributes about Him and I have affection to some degree but not overwhelming joy like it should be and when pray I don't feel Him like most people seem to I have doubts of salvation which surely isn't helping I don't doubt Jesus and God promises I doubt my own heart if I decieved myself even though I repented and accepted Christ genuinely I know there is false converts out there false repentant people even how can I know without doubt the Holy Spirit brought me to God and repentance rather than my own emotions and head knowledge ?
Mike Hill I'm going through the exact same doubts and struggles. I often struggle to be excited about knowing God and am all too rarely excited about prayer and reading the Bible. I think it does take a miracle to move from the affection you mentioned, into genuine, passionate love and enjoyment of the person of God, and that for this miracle to be worked in us, we must want that in our lives. The fact that you so clearly desire to be closer to Him is brilliant, and I do as well (most of the time), so I think we move forward with patience and in the confience of God's promises. He promises to help us, which must mean He also helps us in our doubts and unbelief. It is human to doubt, but keep your faith Mike, hold onto it. I don't think you could have a faith and desire to be closer to God such as you have, without God being behind it, drawing you to Him.
Ben Boyum That's true my desire wouldn't be there if God were not involved definitely I will never lose the faith but I to struggle to be excited about the Bible and prayer BUT I want to be excited I want what true Christians have full joy in Him and nothing else matters reading the Bible is the best thing ever I want that but patience is key as you mentioned :)
Mike Hill That's great! It helps me to remember that God won't judge me according to others, or compare me to them, in this case whether other Christians "feel it" more than I do. I am sure He is glorified in your faith now, and will build you up in accordance with His perfect timing :)
Ben Boyum Very true He judges individually thats the beauty of God one of His many beauties :)
Mike Hill Psalm 130:5 I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope
Wow!
I am so so sorry that the organization behind this video needed to monetize it, for as I am listening to Pastor Piper go between whisper and yelling suddenly, and an ad starts not once but multiple times. I am stopping listening to these on TH-cam. I guarantee I would never buy from an advertiser that just wrecked Pastor Piper's message as it was changing me.
Delighted
God is good using his servant migtily john piper
So beautiful that desire.
Great sermon. But the audio is way low at times and way high at others. Can't hardly hear it in the car :|
Welcome to John Piper, haha! He gets so loud then quiet lol
thats just John piper ... frustrates me sometimes to lol.
@@MadeOfConfusion you must not listen to him too much that's just his style of preaching there's no way to mix his audio normally, without keeping your hand on the fader non stop, only a master engineer could level his preaching out :-)
@@tcgmedia2023 I listen to him quite a bit, my comment wasn't negative towards him LOL
That is John Piper!!!
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No revealng pearls,but I enjoy GOD.
Amen.
Amen 🙏🏾
Amen...............
I love the sermon. Amazing truths in there. Just curious though, if delight in God is our highest duty, where does that leave the great commission then, sharing the gospel. Not objecting anything, just want to hear some thoughts on that with biblical back up.
The only thing that comes to my mind is "To love God with all of your heart..." verse. I can see this being preeminent because by loving Him above all the result is a pleasing to God- life of complete obedience. "...that's the Law and the Prophets".
Actually that question was answered, now that I continued to listen.
@@chrislandaverdedf Thanks for your response bro. God bless you
always amen
Creo que el deseo es como la dirección de las acciones de nuestra alma. Solo convertida puede cambiar de sentido.
Thank you
German bread, oh yes!! 💪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪Hahaha♥️🤗😂
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46:22 xD
Wow how many people are there ?
I am unsure of my salvation because I do not seem to delight in God or feel any love for Him. I obey Him out of obligation and fear of Hell, rather than obeying out of love. So what do I do now? How do I make myself feel the emotions that are necessary for salvation? Since I am asking God to give me those emotions and I am still not feeling them, does that mean that I am not one of the elect?
John Piper often speaks of how delighting in God and treasuring Him above all else is necessary in order to go to Heaven, but what should one do if they do not delight in Him or treasure Him? I'm beginning to lose hope and I think I may be a lost cause.
Search through his word. learn about him. you will see how amazing the lord is. Don't do it out of obligation. You can't make yourself have the emotions. seeing God's amazing character through his word and things that he does in your life will do that. obligation does nothing. I will pray for you!! don't give up!
You're not a lost cause. I pray that the eyes of your heart are opened like the man in Matthew 13:44. Only the Holy Spirit's work in you can cause you to love God with all your heart all your soul and all your strength. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Your obedience out of fear will lead to a delight in the Father and will lead to Christ and the Father making His home in your heart. Ask God for genuine affection and joy in Him, keep asking. You're not alone in struggling with this. I find that writing out His promises as I read them allows me to read slow enough for my affection to build. Give yourself at least 30 uninterrupted and unhurried minutes per day over your open Bible and ask Him to speak to you. Luke 11:9-13.
Dear Kylie. Me too. It was so honest and courageous of you to say it. I am so oppressed. I honestly wonder how to feel like God is kind and loving. I hope you've found peace since you posted. Blessings.
Kylee, I have often experienced the same questions and feared their implications. I will pass on the response of my pastor when I went to him with my fears. He said, "You do not love God, though you wish you could? Good. That is a confession. When the prodigal son realized his failure, he began to travel back to his father to in order to confess his sin and ask only to be a servant in his house. But what did the Father do? 'While he [the son] was still a long way off, his father saw and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him, and kissed him.'" When we confess to God our failure to love him, we are still a long way off. Yet he is filled with compassion for us and runs out to us. We would be lost causes, except that he pursues us (runs out to us)........ Practically, I apply this knowledge by confessing to God the twisted desires of my heart and remembering that "even when we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Then I pray that he would open me and change me to see glimpses of his beauty - especially when I read scripture. Then, I take the advice of C. S. Lewis and act as if I loved God, even if I do not properly love him, in the hopes that as I obey him my heart would begin to turn towards him. I hope that this finds you well.
That’s the issue with John Piper and his teachings.
I wish I could hear this video he speaks so low and then yells and I have the volume all the way up. I could hear this whole sermon but what I can hear... I can tell that it's good
I can hear it fine
For a transcript, visit this sermon on desiringGod.org!
I'll say this, John Piper's videos allow you to answer. John MacArthur is such a coward he hides behind silencing everyone else.
Volume is too low!
the voice of ps John was too small
But what there is to enjoy in the Lord?
Everything? 🙂
Maybe he has a monopoly on God!
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help me understand John 4:24 God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.....but on here Pastor John speaks alot of God is a person? and plz I'm not being funny... trying to understand.
God used to be a human being but he got killed on the cross for teaching his disciples about the Lord jesus christ. Which is him. So when he speaks like this he is talking past tense. God will return brother
@@perma45ACP god is god but is also Jesus who died but was still alive in heaven coz he is god BUT he is also the holy spirit and Jesus and god... makes sense
I have a picture of God that saved you
Cz.titl. P l e a s .
Clean out your temple so the holy spirit can dwell there again.
How can you love God when you don't know if he loves you. There are no verses in the Bible that are positive for women. I really want to know Gods love, but women seem to be created as an after thought and then are created out of a man not the same stuff as the rest of the world. Then they are treated as unimportant except for children. I'm not even sure if a woman can be saved only enslaved. I wish the proof didn't point to that but it does.
Bonnie...I am not a pastor or preacher....but want you to know that God loves the world. More importantly He is love...yes he did create woman from the man...and he did it in love. He created man from dust :-). Please read Genesis 1:26-28.
26 Then God said, “Let us make man8 in our image, pafter our likeness. And let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens
and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing
that creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; rmale and female he
created them. 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply and
fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and
over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the
earth.”
Note that God created them male and female and he "blessed THEM". The Hebrew root word for blessed
means to "ADORE" - bârak, baw-rak'; a primitive root; to kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a benefit)...Creation is one of God's many acts of love or adoration.
God knows the end from the beginning, so to Him nothing or no one is an afterthought.
We were all born in the condition of sin...lost and had now hope...but god being rich
in mercy sent His son. In him you are the beloved and very important as any man.
Ephesians 2: 4-10
But3 God, being rrich in mercy, sbecause of the great love with
which he loved us, 5 even twhen we were dead in our trespasses, umade
us alive together with Christ-by grace you have been saved- 6 and raised us up with him and wseated
us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches
of his grace in ykindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved athrough faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we
are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus hfor good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we
should walk in them. Christ is the proof you need...put your trust in Him. And find God fearing
women, who are trusting in him, to walk with you through this season. There is so much more to this....it will take some time...but God is patient and Kind.
God loves women. God sent his Jesus Christ through a woman, Mary. There's no greater proof that God delights in female gender than this. Carrying the God of the universe in your womb is saying more than saying women are child bearer. It is saying women are the crown of creations and so magnificent.
I used to think this also until i realized that God is protecting us, thus the reason a husband and father will be heald to higher standard for his actions. God bless. Seek the scriptures daily he will help you see. God bless
God LOVES everything (everyone) that he created. Why would he make something that he hates? If he didn't want women, he would have done something different. He made us for a reason. Women are doing great things for God in this day. He LOVES LOVES LOVES you!! Look in his word. Seek him and pray. Read Luke 7:36-50. GOD LOVES YOU!!
The Lord does not look down on women or treat us differently than men. God has made us different to compliment one another.
Look how many stories of women are remembered in the NT.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Gal3:28-29
This man has no idea what The Lord wants... He(piper) claims the first sin was NOT disobedience...
who does know? - who is delusional enough to profess they can read the mind of a fictional deity???
@@SNORKYMEDIA look around you brother... these are growing pains and the time is short. Repent and believe in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Stop preaching answer first the accusation of Justine Peters about his video implicating you as a big liar in the video "Heavenly Tourism". To all fellow believers don't be fooled by liars.
It's not John Piper...it's Don Piper the one you mean...
I like it better when you only saw Piper. Who cares how many people are there. Consant movement to show the audience is distracting. Not even 30 seconds and I'm done.
I don’t even watch the show, I only listen because I’m usually doing other things that I have to take care of, like walking the dogs, or cleaning up. If I’m lucky, I get to sit down and read and write down the scriptutal verses. ❤
The story of the Bible is outdated and needs to better balanced to today's modern day concerns without a preacher having to break down 1 sentence every 20 minutes.
Even if you try to break it down and explain the verses to people, they are bored by your stories and that doesn't encourage the brain to be "turned on".
- That's TRUTH. -
I am not trying to be rude, my apologies for coming across this way, it is my intention to get your attention however.
How do you enjoy the bible and the story that is being represented?
There is a never ending representation of the works that will bring you to a point of resenting people for their striving to present parables as a mirroring truth.
Also, if you understand Gnosticism...you understand whats trumy going on in the stories. Do people understand Gnosticism?
All th e writers of the 66 books were Gnostics, Mystics or seers.
Believe, their experience with God and Satan are on a MUCH DIFFERENT SCALE than anything we could ever imagine.
However, the story has good morals and values. With todays competing story lines, children are losing interest.
God bless...
the story has good morals and values - well except the parts about slavery, rape, genocide, child abuse etc.....
You are a corrupt little human being who, if you lived in Germany in 1939, would rape, steal and participate in genocide. We all would because we are all corrupt. That's why Jesus came to save your corrupt soul.
Forcing yourself to delight and enjoy someone? Praying that you can just actually enjoy someone? That's like the stupidest thing I've heard. You don't have to convince and persuade someone who actually enjoys and loves God to make themselves love and enjoy God. So weird if you have to force yourself to love God you don't love God.
kevlar kevin i guess your new to piper's teaching... stick around and you'll understand...
kevlar kevin Since everyone is sinful by nature (corrupt in every part of our being), we can’t and won’t EVER love and enjoy God in our own. Thus, God must, by the Holy Spirit, transform our hearts to love and enjoy him and to be satisfied in him. THAT’S the reason God “forces” us to love him (although he’s making us love the best thing for us in the world: Himself. So it’s not a bad forcing). Would you rather let God not change your heart and go to hell rather than change it and make you go to heaven?
i agree with Jesse Thomas. Stick around dear brother. Listen to him. This is too early to speak just listening to one sermon..