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Glorifying God by Enjoying Him Meet Nando · Pastor John Piper's answers

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  Speaker 1: Everybody wants to be happy, and everybody tries to get
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  Speaker 1: it in different ways. It was very good to be
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  Speaker 1: in the stage, and it was very good to be playing.
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  Speaker 1: To have five hundred or one thousand people clapping empowers you.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of an inebriating thing. It makes you feel important.
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  Speaker 1: What I was really looking for is it was to
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  Speaker 1: be happy. I put my strength on it, and I
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  Speaker 1: thought that I would find happiness in that activity. The
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  Speaker 1: more I looked to be happy in this way, the
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  Speaker 1: more frustrated I felt. At the moment that lights went down,
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  Speaker 1: happiness also went down. The idea of God was always there,
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  Speaker 1: but I think he wasn't my priority. I never thought
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  Speaker 1: about happiness, true happiness in God. When God enters in
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  Speaker 1: the game, it's a game changer. The more I disappeared,
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  Speaker 1: the more God is the lord, and the more God
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  Speaker 1: is glorified, and I get the joy that I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: finding before. Imagine that you are in a deep ocean
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  Speaker 1: and you know.
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  Speaker 2: That above you there's a big storm, but you are
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  Speaker 2: in a deeper place where that storm doesn't affect you.
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  Speaker 2: You know that you are in the storm, but you
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  Speaker 2: are safe. And that's what I feel about the peace
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  Speaker 2: that God gives me.
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  Speaker 1: All that God does, it's not for me but for
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  Speaker 1: His glory. And one of the main ways to glorify
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  Speaker 1: God is to have joined him.