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Effort in Holiness by the Power of Another (Part 10) · Pastor John Piper's answers

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  Speaker 1: In our final session, I want to bring the providence
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  Speaker 1: of God right down to the kitchen, in the bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: in the workplace, to show how precious and powerful and
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  Speaker 1: needed it is, particularly in our battling our own sin, selfishness, pride,
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  Speaker 1: self pity, anger. How do you go about fighting your
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  Speaker 1: sin to produce instead of selfishness, generosity, and to produce
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  Speaker 1: humility and kindness and patience and all the fruits of
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  Speaker 1: the spirit. How do you pursue this in view of
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  Speaker 1: God's all governing, all ordering, all sustaining providence in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Because the reason this question is urgent is because there
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  Speaker 1: are people who think that because of the work of
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  Speaker 1: Christ and the providence of God, we should be passive.
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  Speaker 1: We become passive instead of responding to providence and to
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  Speaker 1: the work of Christ with energetic effort in opposition to
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  Speaker 1: our sin. And I want to show why that's an
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  Speaker 1: understandable mistake, and that it is a mistake when you
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  Speaker 1: think about the Cross first and then providence. When we
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  Speaker 1: read what achieved what was achieved on the Cross, we
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  Speaker 1: know all our sins are covered, our guilt is canceled, past, present, future.
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  Speaker 1: And therefore some people are inclined to think, well, if
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  Speaker 1: my sin is covered past, present, and future, then my
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  Speaker 1: own concern with my active holiness and overcoming my daily sinning,
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  Speaker 1: it's no big deal. It's all covered. There's nothing urgent
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  Speaker 1: about it. So you can see how the cross might
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  Speaker 1: have that effect. Same thing with providence. Well, if God
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  Speaker 1: rules me totally and is involved in my life and
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  Speaker 1: is sovereign overcoming everything, let him do it. Those are
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  Speaker 1: both mistakes. At first, I'll show it some mistake with
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  Speaker 1: regard to the Cross, and then with regard to Providence.
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  Speaker 1: There are three pictures I want to mention of how
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  Speaker 1: Christ saves us from sin in Paul's writings. Picture one,
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  Speaker 1: when he died for us, We died in him Romans six'.
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  Speaker 1: Five we have been united with him in a death
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  Speaker 1: like his. Dead does that produce? Passivity? NO a few verses,
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  Speaker 1: later verse, eleven you also must consider yourselves dead to
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  Speaker 1: Sin verse. Twelve let not sin reign in your mortal. Body,
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  Speaker 1: so because you died With, christ energetically put self to.
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  Speaker 1: Death here's the second. Picture we were bought by the
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  Speaker 1: blood Of christ One corinthians six. Nineteen you are not your.
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  Speaker 1: Own you were bought with a. Price, Okay i've been.
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  Speaker 1: Bought what does that do Nixt verse. Twenty Glorify god
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  Speaker 1: in your. Body put your body to active service in
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  Speaker 1: such a way as to Make god Look god. Glorious picture.
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  Speaker 1: Three we were Forgiven ephesians four thirty. Two god In
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  Speaker 1: christ forgave. You and the Way paul thinks here now
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  Speaker 1: is as you have been, forgiven be kind to one, another,
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  Speaker 1: tenderhearted forgiving one. Another so in every, picture the effect
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  Speaker 1: of the decisive work Of christ on the cross is
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  Speaker 1: to make me, active not, passive active in opposing my,
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  Speaker 1: sin putting my sin to. Death now the same thing
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  Speaker 1: is true Of. Providence and there are at least two
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  Speaker 1: texts THAT i simply cannot live without because they make
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  Speaker 1: so much sense of both the doctrine of providence and
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  Speaker 1: my experience of my own battle with. Sin and the
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  Speaker 1: first one Is philippians two twelve and. Thirteen, piper take
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  Speaker 1: it for, yourself work out your own salvation with fear and.
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  Speaker 1: Trembling so you take responsibility here and effect your final
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  Speaker 1: salvation in whatever way is by faith by the. Spirit
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  Speaker 1: do this, reason for it Is god who works in
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  Speaker 1: you both to will and to work to will and
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  Speaker 1: to work for his good. Pleasure it's not the other way.
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  Speaker 1: Around it's not, Like, OKAY i Guess i'm gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to work out my salvation SO i can Get god
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  Speaker 1: to work in, Me god to work for. Me, No,
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  Speaker 1: no you, work you exert effort in killing your, sin
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  Speaker 1: Because god is working in, you which means my working
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  Speaker 1: Is his working in. ME i think that's what it
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  Speaker 1: says when it Says he is at work to will
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  Speaker 1: and to work my very willing against my. Sin my
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  Speaker 1: very working against my sin is the willing and the
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  Speaker 1: working Of god in. Me and one of the REASONS
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  Speaker 1: i think that is because of this second, text namely
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  Speaker 1: One grindians fifteen. Ten by the grace Of, GOD i
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  Speaker 1: am WHAT i, am And his grace towards me was
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  Speaker 1: not in. Vain his grace toward me was not in.
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  Speaker 1: Vain on the, CONTRARY i worked harder than any of.
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  Speaker 1: Them god's grace resulted In paul's hardest imaginable. WORKING i
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  Speaker 1: worked harder than any of. Them and then he, adds
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  Speaker 1: but it was NOT i but the grace Of god
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  Speaker 1: that is with. Me so if anybody ever, said, yes,
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  Speaker 1: oh that big view of providence That John piper developed
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  Speaker 1: in those ten. Sessions that big view Of god's, meticulous, pervasive,
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  Speaker 1: sustaining governing ordering of all things just turns us into passive.
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  Speaker 1: Robots let this final word say, no that is not
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  Speaker 1: what it. Does it never has done. That for those
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  Speaker 1: who have been. Biblical In philippians two twelve and thirteen
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  Speaker 1: ways and One grinthians fifteen ten, Ways god's grace towards
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  Speaker 1: me has not been in. Vain BUT i worked. Hard,
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  Speaker 1: nevertheless it was NOT i but the grace Of god
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  Speaker 1: that was with. Me so neither The, cross in its
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  Speaker 1: glorious it is, finished Nor, providence in its meticulous, thoroughness
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  Speaker 1: neither of them produced passive. People, rather they produce haters
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  Speaker 1: of our own sin and successful mortifiers of our. Flesh,
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  Speaker 1: or to put it, positively they produce radical, lovers people
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  Speaker 1: who are willing to take. Risks when you live by,
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  Speaker 1: grace grace from The cross and grace from undeserved providential
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  Speaker 1: control in your. Lives when you live by, grace you
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  Speaker 1: pour out. Grace those who embrace the providence Of god
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  Speaker 1: are people who live to extend grace to other. People
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  Speaker 1: because all the work of The, cross all the work Of,
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  Speaker 1: providence was free and gracious through and. Through so the
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  Speaker 1: biblical truth Of god's providence is a precious. Reality my
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  Speaker 1: pursuit of my own joy In god and my desire
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  Speaker 1: That god be glorified through my pursuit of joy In
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  Speaker 1: god would be impossible without the power Of god's providence
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  Speaker 1: in my. Life May god take these ten sessions that
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  Speaker 1: we've enjoyed together and fill you with that kind of,
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  Speaker 1: humility that kind of, boldness and make you really active
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  Speaker 1: in the grace Of god for the good of others
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  Speaker 1: and for the glory Of Jesus. Christ