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John Piper: Would You Help Expand Free Access? · Pastor John Piper's answers

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  Speaker 1: Twenty twenty six is almost here, an important moment for
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  Speaker 1: us to stop and look ahead. Hello, and thank you
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  Speaker 1: for listening to ask Pastor John. This is Tony Ranky
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  Speaker 1: here with a brief special episode to thank you for
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  Speaker 1: joining us this year and for subscribing and listening and
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  Speaker 1: making Pastor John and myself a part of your life.
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  Speaker 1: We are truly honored to be a part of your
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  Speaker 1: weekly routine. The calendar changes in just a few days.
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  Speaker 1: Looking ahead is important, but looking ahead requires energy too, dreaming,
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  Speaker 1: planning and visioning, enthusiasm for what's possible, and then the
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  Speaker 1: energy to actually do new things. It's a lot, especially
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  Speaker 1: desiring God, because we stand on a legacy of seventeen
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  Speaker 1: thousand resources, now all of them totally free online, and
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  Speaker 1: we have that kind of history decades of God's blessing.
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  Speaker 1: The natural impulse is to breathe the sigh of relief,
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  Speaker 1: to look back, to admire the achievement and maybe get
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  Speaker 1: a little sentimental. But here's the problem. Dwelling on the
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  Speaker 1: past isn't a plan for what comes next. It won't
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  Speaker 1: accomplish the important work still ahead of us. So where
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  Speaker 1: does energy for the future come from. Here's Pastor John
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  Speaker 1: to answer that very question.
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  Speaker 2: The older I get, the more relevant Philippians three point
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  Speaker 2: thirteen becomes for me. Forgetting what lies behind and straining
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  Speaker 2: forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the
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  Speaker 2: goal for the prize of the upward call of God
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  Speaker 2: in Christ Jesus. Now, I don't think that means you
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  Speaker 2: become less aware or less thankful for decades of past
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  Speaker 2: ministry and past blessings. I think it means prioritize hope
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  Speaker 2: over nostalgia, prioritize future purpose over past achievement. And for
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  Speaker 2: young people that's just natural, the whole future lies in
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  Speaker 2: front of them. But for older people it takes an effort.
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  Speaker 2: And that effort for me has been made so much
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  Speaker 2: easier by being a part of desiring God, just because
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  Speaker 2: there's so much energy for the future here and not
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  Speaker 2: just thinking about the past. So I get caught up
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  Speaker 2: into it as a contagion, and I feel, Come on, Piper,
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  Speaker 2: finish the projects you're working on. Press on with them.
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  Speaker 2: You've only got eight more chapters to go to finish.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the book on all of Paul's letters, Get
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  Speaker 2: on with it. What about the book, Piper, you're writing
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  Speaker 2: a book to introduce young people to Christian hedonism afresh,
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  Speaker 2: and you're building it around seventeen questions that they usually
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  Speaker 2: ask about joy in the Christian life. Get on with
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  Speaker 2: it and finish it. Don't just think about the past,
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  Speaker 2: work on the future. So yeah, I'm really honored and
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  Speaker 2: excited to be a part of Desiring God. What a gift.
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  Speaker 2: This place is just bursting with fresh initiatives, fresh initiatives
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  Speaker 2: in rebuilding the website, fresh initiatives in campus ministry, fresh
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  Speaker 2: initiatives in prison ministry, fresh initiatives in global translation projects,
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  Speaker 2: and amazingly all of it for free. We don't charge
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  Speaker 2: anybody for anything online. For thirty years, we've never charged
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  Speaker 2: anybody for anything online. The key is that we hope,
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  Speaker 2: we pray, we encourage those who've been blessed by the
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  Speaker 2: Ministry to join us in what we call now paying
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  Speaker 2: the cost of free for millions more people. And so
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  Speaker 2: if you've done that, if you're part of project, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: We're so thankful for thousands of people who have partnered
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  Speaker 2: with us in that way. And may I just encourage
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  Speaker 2: all of you to consider here at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the year, investing with us in that way to pay
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  Speaker 2: the cost of free, so that we can keep saying
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  Speaker 2: to the world that God is most glorified in you
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  Speaker 2: when you are most satisfied.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. That's a great principle for all of life. Never
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  Speaker 1: get to the point where you are more contented with
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  Speaker 1: what you have already done than you are excited with
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  Speaker 1: what is yet to be done. And so drives our
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  Speaker 1: work now new energy for the future. Dreaming of new
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  Speaker 1: ways to do this with your partnership essential to us
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  Speaker 1: along the way as we continue in the sweet ministry
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  Speaker 1: of work, and specifically as we begin building a new
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  Speaker 1: campus ministry, a new website, and new libraries translated resources
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  Speaker 1: for the world. If you have been blessed by free
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  Speaker 1: access to our resources and you want to offset for
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  Speaker 1: others the cost of free, consider a one time gift
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  Speaker 1: or a monthly gift to help support everything that we
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  Speaker 1: do here. You can make that gift or set up
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  Speaker 1: monthly giving right now at give dot Desiringgod dot org.
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  Speaker 1: That's give dot Desiringgod dot org. Your financial support turns
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  Speaker 1: our energy for the future into reality and helps offset
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  Speaker 1: the cost of free for thousands of users. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for listening, for watching, for reading, and for helping us
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  Speaker 1: make this entire ministry possible in twenty twenty five and
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  Speaker 1: again in twenty twenty six. For all of it, we
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  Speaker 1: say thank you. We'll see you again soon.