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John Piper - The Explosive Power of the Resurrection Sing! Conference Highlight · Pastor John Piper's answers

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  Speaker 1: The reason the resurrection has explosive power now is the
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  Speaker 1: same reason it did for him then. In his case,
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  Speaker 1: the hope of the resurrection had explosive power because of
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  Speaker 1: the joy that he saw holding him on the cross.
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  Speaker 1: And so it will be with us for the joy
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  Speaker 1: that is set before us in the resurrection. We will
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  Speaker 1: endure the cost of love, no matter how high, for
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  Speaker 1: the least deserving right that is Christianity.
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  Speaker 2: So let's take one crazy, glorious example of somebody who
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  Speaker 2: lived this way. In what it looks like.
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  Speaker 1: Acts, Chapter sixteen, the apostle Paul, as you know, is
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  Speaker 1: preaching in Philippi, and there's this demon possessed slave girl
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  Speaker 1: whose masters use her for fortune telling and make a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money. And she keeps crying out after Paul
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  Speaker 1: while he's preaching very annoyingly. These are servants of the
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  Speaker 1: Most High God, and Paul has just had it after
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  Speaker 1: numerous days, and he turns and he says, I command you,
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus Christ, come out of her.
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  Speaker 1: And the demon comes out, and these men lose their
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  Speaker 1: girl and their money. So, pastors, you preach all day,
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  Speaker 1: just don't mess with people's money unless you want to
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  Speaker 1: be faithful. So they're really angry at Paul, and they
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  Speaker 1: drag him before the magistrates, and they lie about them,
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  Speaker 1: and they strip them of their clothing and beat them
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  Speaker 1: with rods, throw them in prison without a trial, put
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  Speaker 1: them in the innermost prison, put their feet in stocks.
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  Speaker 1: So here's the picture. Paul and Silas shamed by being stripped,
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  Speaker 1: beaten with rods, sitting in the deepest prison, feet in stocks,
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  Speaker 1: sleepless at midnight. And you know what they're doing, they're singing.
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  Speaker 1: My wife and I read this last week. This is
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  Speaker 1: why I'm preaching on this sermon. My wife and I
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  Speaker 1: read this, and we read the Bible together every night.
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  Speaker 1: We pray. I read this story and we looked at
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  Speaker 1: each other and we just said.
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  Speaker 2: We don't do that.
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  Speaker 1: Saran is the one of the most convicting stories in
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  Speaker 1: the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: It's devastating. We grumble.
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  Speaker 1: You grumble, You grumble at the slightest thing. That's not
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  Speaker 1: the power of the resurrection. Grumbling is not the power
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  Speaker 1: of the resurrection. We're just like everybody else when we grumble.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm preaching to myself. You understand that it says
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  Speaker 1: they were singing hymns. Now there's a word for psalms.
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  Speaker 1: You read it in Ephesians psalms hymns, spiritual songs. And
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  Speaker 1: we know what psalms are. They're not singing psalms, they're
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  Speaker 1: singing hymns. Somebody wrote them. Besides David who wrote them.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who wrote them. Paul probably wrote them.
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  Speaker 1: Silas was the musician maybe, But here's the amazing thing.
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  Speaker 1: They knew him by heart. The greatest men in the
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  Speaker 1: world are singing men. I mean, can you see them
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  Speaker 1: walking from city to city, arm in arm, ready to
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  Speaker 1: go to jail, singing all the way.
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  Speaker 2: How else would they know them? It's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: It's midnight, sleepless, be with rods feeding stocks, dark in
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  Speaker 1: the prison, and they're singing.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to know, how can you do that?
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  Speaker 2: What is this power that.
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  Speaker 1: I so long for?
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  Speaker 2: More? That's my question.
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  Speaker 1: Four times in the Book of Acts, Paul puts in
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  Speaker 1: one sentence why he winds up on trial and in prison,
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  Speaker 1: over and over and over, And I'll read them to
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  Speaker 1: you before the Jews in Jerusalem x Twenty three. It
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  Speaker 1: is for the hope of the resurrection of the dead
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  Speaker 1: that I am on trial.
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  Speaker 2: Before Felix in Caesarea.
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  Speaker 1: It is with respect to the resurrection of the dead
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  Speaker 1: that I am on trial before you this day, before
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  Speaker 1: King Agrippa. Why is it thought incredible by any of
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  Speaker 1: you that God raises the dead before the Jews in
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  Speaker 1: Rome at the very end of his life. It is
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  Speaker 1: because of the hope of Israel that I am wearing
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  Speaker 1: this chain. The resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of
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  Speaker 1: all who are.
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  Speaker 2: In Christ
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  Speaker 1: Was the sustaining power of Paul's song in suffering and
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  Speaker 1: love for the jailer