John Piper – How the Supremacy of Christ Creates Radical Christian Sacrifice
Updated: 2011-10-27 – Corrected links
How the Supremacy of Christ Creates Radical Christian Sacrifice (Together for the Gospel Conference 2008) MP3
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I have very few words for this sermon right now, except to say that it is powerful… even life-changing. This should ignite a fire in us all. I have said time and time again:
If 99% of Christians knew what God expected of them, they wouldn’t even bother trying.
But oh, for the grace of God we can not only try, but endure and receive our reward in Christ! It is my new prayer that God would work this out in me.
Additional Resources
- Together for The Gospel Conference
- Matt Chandler – Preparing Your Church for Suffering (T4G 2010)
- John Piper – Suffering and the Sovereignty of God
- John Piper – Stand: A Call for the Endurance of the Saints
- John Piper – Sermons on Hebrews
- John MacArthur – The Glory of Christian Suffering
- John MacArthur – Hebrews, Volume 1 (Sermon Series)
- John MacArthur – Hebrews, Volume 2 (Sermon Series)
- John MacArthur – Hebrews, Volume 3 (Sermon Series)
- John MacArthur – Hebrews, Volume 4 (Sermon Series)
- R.C. Sproul – Suffering and the Sovereignty of God (Ligonier 2010 Winter Conference)
- R.C. Sproul – Surprised By Suffering
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[...] I’ve said this before, and while I suspect that it is true, I nonetheless wish it were not. As K.P. mentions in this sermon: What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.Matthew 18:12-14 (ESV) [...]