John Piper, in a sermon, “The Full Assurance of Hope” There is a fight to be fought in the Christian life. There is a kind of effort and earnestness. Laziness and sluggishness are not the way to live. But the direct focus of the fight is not first on serving or first working or first … More Don’t get the focus wrong.
John Piper, in a sermon on Hebrews 5: What this means is that if you want to grow up and feast on the fullness of God’s revelation, you don’t do it by jumping from milk to meat. You do it by the way you drink the milk. The milk has to make you a certain … More How to Drink Milk
John Piper,in a sermon from Hebrews 4:12-13 “The Word of God: Living, Active, Sharp” Now the point of today’s text (Hebrews 4:12–13) is to help us do that by telling us about this Word. Be diligent, verse 11 says, because (verse 12 says) the Word of God is . . . And then it tells us … More Living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword
John Piper comments in a sermon, “Eternal Security is a Community Project” from Hebrews 3: Now this raises several questions. One is: Well, if our failure to hold fast our hope and confidence means we never were really partakers of Christ, what are we falling away from in verse 12? Take care, brethren, lest there … More A falling away
For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.—Hebrews 2:10 I find it interesting that the passage from Luke today speaks of Jesus’ perfect knowledge (see J.C. Ryle’s comment) and this passage in Hebrews … More Perfect through suffering
Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. —Hebrews 2:1 ESV John Piper, in “The Danger of Drifting from the Word” But in chapter 2 the first thing is a command or a duty—something we must do. And the connection with chapter 1 is very … More What do you listen to?
Dr. John Piper, in a sermon from Hebrews 1, “Jesus Christ: Infinitely Superior to Angels” He returns to where he started in verse 3—Christ sat down at the right hand of Majesty as King of the universe and as Son of God in power and as Heir of all things and as God—remember verse 8, … More Jesus Christ is infinitely superior to angels
Hebrews 1:1-2 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. John Piper, in the first of his sermons … More God is not silent or withdrawn
Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom … More Our Great Shepherd gives us what we need
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. John Piper comments, in a sermon “Jesus Christ is the Same Yesterday and Today and Forever” Why does it matter that the Jesus Christ of today be the same as the Jesus Christ of yesterday and tomorrow? Let me try to put the significance … More He is the same
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