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Spreading Great Joy in a Big God to the Next Generation · Pastor John Piper's answers

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Speaker 1: Welcome to this special episode of Ask Pastor John. This
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Speaker 1: is Tony Rankey, honored to spend a moment with you.
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Speaker 1: In this rare special Saturday edition of the podcast. We'll
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Speaker 1: hear from Pastor John here in a moment about some
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Speaker 1: new projects ahead for us. Our mission here at Desiring
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Speaker 1: God is to multiply joy in God around the world,
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Speaker 1: and over the past year, this mission took a few
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Speaker 1: leaps forward when we launched our next generation vision to
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Speaker 1: aggressively spread great joy in a Big God to the
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Speaker 1: next generation. It's a goal we're pursuing by upgrading our
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Speaker 1: technology and expanding the distribution of our resources far and wide,
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Speaker 1: all free of charge. But what does this look like
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Speaker 1: in reality? What new products will we make to aggressively
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Speaker 1: spread great joy in a Big God to the next generation.
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Speaker 1: To explain and to announce the launch in near completion
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Speaker 1: of some key projects you need to know about, here's
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Speaker 1: Pastor John.
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Speaker 2: The Book of Romans in the New Testament is not
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Speaker 2: just a mountain, It's a mountain range. When I was
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Speaker 2: completing the three hundred and thirtieth episode of Look the
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Speaker 2: Book on Chapters one to eleven, I came to and
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Speaker 2: crested one of the highest mountain peaks in the book
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Speaker 2: in the end of chapter eleven. Oh, the riches of
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Speaker 2: the wisdom and the knowledge of God. How inscrutable are
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Speaker 2: his judgments, How unsearchable are his ways? Who has known
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Speaker 2: the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor,
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Speaker 2: or who has ever given a gift to him that
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Speaker 2: he should be repaid for? From him and through him
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Speaker 2: and to him are all things? To Him be glory
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Speaker 2: forever and ever. When we created Look At the Book
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Speaker 2: about twelve years ago, I doubted that I would live
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Speaker 2: long enough to complete all thirteen of Paul's life letters.
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Speaker 2: And here we are with five chapters to go. And
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Speaker 2: my prayer, my request to you, is that you would
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Speaker 2: please pray for me, pray for us here at Desiring God,
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Speaker 2: so that we, by the end of the summer of
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, could finish all thirteen of Paul's letters,
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Speaker 2: all of Romans. We love the Bible here we believe
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Speaker 2: it's worthy of the most meticulous, careful, believing attention. So
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Speaker 2: join us in prayer that we could bring this to
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Speaker 2: a good climax. I interrupted my work on Look At
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Speaker 2: the Book last January in order to finish a little
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Speaker 2: book about one hundred pages that the staff here at
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Speaker 2: Desiring God asked me to write. We're probably going to
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Speaker 2: title it we are far too easily pleased fifteen Hard
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Speaker 2: Questions about Happiness. It's a book about my burden of
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Speaker 2: the next generation. Eighteen to twenty five was when God
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Speaker 2: blew up my world with the truth that God is
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Speaker 2: most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
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Speaker 2: So we're trying to capture that truth in a fresh
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Speaker 2: way for the next generation. And we hope that the
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Speaker 2: book will be ready in our hands by December of
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Speaker 2: this year, twenty twenty six, so that we can give
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Speaker 2: away tens of thousands of these to students at their
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Speaker 2: various Christmas conferences across the country and then Lord willing
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Speaker 2: around the world. Another milestone that we just passed in
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Speaker 2: our next generation vision. In fact, just two days ago
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Speaker 2: I saw it for the first time, namely the relaunching
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Speaker 2: of the solid Joy's web platform. Solid Joys is a
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Speaker 2: three hundred and sixty five day short daily devotional. Can
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Speaker 2: read them, you can listen to them. One of the
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Speaker 2: unique things about this relaunch is that it gives you
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Speaker 2: a first glimpse into the upgraded online web experience of
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Speaker 2: the whole website as the renewed website is rolled out
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Speaker 2: over the next two years, a personalized, AI powered multi lingual.
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Speaker 2: In fact, if you go to solid Joys, just type
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Speaker 2: it into your browser and get the solid Joys page.
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Speaker 2: There's a little glomb up in the right hand corner.
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Speaker 2: If you click on it, it says English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese.
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Speaker 2: I was just blown away by this new possibility of
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Speaker 2: reading these three hundred and sixty five devotionals in all
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Speaker 2: those languages. We really believe here at Desiring God, that
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Speaker 2: helping people all over the world get into the Bible
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Speaker 2: every day is really life transforming. Our fiscal year here
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Speaker 2: at Desiring God ends at the end of June thirtieth,
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Speaker 2: twenty s and this gives me a great opportunity to
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Speaker 2: say thank you to thousands of you, literally thousands of you,
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Speaker 2: who for years or a short time, have supported this
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Speaker 2: work and made it possible for us to give everything
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Speaker 2: away at the website free. If it can take it
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Speaker 2: away from the website, it's free freely. We have received
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Speaker 2: freely gifts. This has been our philosophy of ministry for
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Speaker 2: thirty years, and you have helped make it happen. You
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Speaker 2: know that giving things away for free all around the
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Speaker 2: world the way we do it is expensive. It's enough
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Speaker 2: free for us, and you have helped cover the cost
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Speaker 2: of free all around the world. And I would just
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Speaker 2: ask here, at the end of the fiscal year, would
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Speaker 2: you consider making a one time financial gift to us,
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Speaker 2: or even better, a monthly commitment to help us keep
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Speaker 2: doing this kind of free distribution of the truth we love.
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Speaker 2: There are millions of people who don't yet understand the
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Speaker 2: reality that God's God's centeredness, God's pursuit of his own
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Speaker 2: glory is not megalomania. And the reason it's not is
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Speaker 2: because He seeks to magnify his glory in and through
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Speaker 2: our being happy in him. Would you help us spread
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Speaker 2: that amazing, life transforming message that God is most glorified
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Speaker 2: in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
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Speaker 1: Yes. Amen, Freely we have received freely we give. That's
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Speaker 1: our strategy as a wonderful little glimpse into how our
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Speaker 1: vision for the future is taking shape in very specific projects.
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Speaker 1: As we begin this new ministry year, and with all
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Speaker 1: of this happening, will you help us to cover the
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Speaker 1: cost of free You can give a one time gift
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Speaker 1: door sign up for monthly giving right now at Desiring
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Speaker 1: Good dot org forward slash give. That's Desiring Good dot
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Speaker 1: org forward slash give to encourage us in the work
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Speaker 1: ahead for the next twelve months, whether you already support
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Speaker 1: us or are seriously considering it now. Thank you. Thanks
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Speaker 1: for your partnership, and thanks for listening to ask Pastor
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Speaker 1: John to messages, audio articles, and for watching those look
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Speaker 1: at the Book videos, reading our books articles and solid
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Speaker 1: Joy devotionals. For searching our site and sharing our free
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Speaker 1: resources with your friends and family. We'll see you again soon.