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Kill Your Ego, Find Your Joy · Pastor John Piper's answers

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  Speaker 1: Of late, we've been looking at how to kill fleshly
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  Speaker 1: instincts inside of us. Killing self indulgence that was an
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  Speaker 1: episode twenty two fifty seven, killing the desire to retaliate
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  Speaker 1: in episode twenty two to fifty eight Last Time, and
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  Speaker 1: Nixon line today, killing the love of applause. Because, of course,
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  Speaker 1: it feels so good to be applauded. You would think
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  Speaker 1: that getting the credit for something getting recognized, You think
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  Speaker 1: that would feel amazing for a while, And it does
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  Speaker 1: feel great for about thirty seconds, and then you need
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  Speaker 1: more and more and more, a new hit of praise,
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  Speaker 1: until I become the center of this little depressing universe
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  Speaker 1: called me. Today, an asked Pastor John, kill your ego,
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  Speaker 1: find your joy. Priya in Houston, Texas asks about a
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  Speaker 1: recent Psalm in our bibble reading, Pastor johnlo to you,
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  Speaker 1: we read in Psalm one fifteen, verse one that the
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  Speaker 1: Sawmist declares this not to us, o Lord, not to us,
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  Speaker 1: but to your name, give glory because of your love
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  Speaker 1: and faithfulness. Why do you think it is so important
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  Speaker 1: to give glory to God as opposed to seeking out
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  Speaker 1: glory for ourselves. How does this whole dynamic challenge the tendency. Naturally,
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  Speaker 1: we have to take credit for our achievements or blessings
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  Speaker 1: in this life. In what ways can we better practice
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  Speaker 1: humility and recognize God over our lives, especially in moments
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  Speaker 1: when we experience success or recognition from others.
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  Speaker 2: I don't watch many movies. I don't find the vast
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  Speaker 2: majority of them good for my soul. But I've watched
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  Speaker 2: one movie twice, maybe more, at least parts of it more,
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  Speaker 2: namely Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth starring Kenneth Brennan. For two reasons,
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  Speaker 2: King Harry's speech on the eve of the Battle of Ajancor,
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  Speaker 2: and then, best of all, the response of the English
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  Speaker 2: soldiers to their victory over the French. King Harry looks
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  Speaker 2: at the statistics of how many French perished and how
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  Speaker 2: many English perished, like ten to twenty five, and he
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  Speaker 2: says that if anybody in his army takes credit for
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  Speaker 2: this victory, they should be put to death, and they
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  Speaker 2: are to sing thee no nobis as Latin, no nobis
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  Speaker 2: on their way to Calais. And I get the shivers
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  Speaker 2: up and down my spine when I listen to those
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  Speaker 2: soldiers walking across the battle ground singing no nobis domi
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  Speaker 2: ne domi, nay said nomini to O dog glorium. It's
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  Speaker 2: the first line of Psalm one fifteen. Not to us,
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  Speaker 2: o Lord, not to us, but for your name give glory.
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  Speaker 2: I think the reason that scene moves me so deeply
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  Speaker 2: is not only because the setting is just such terrible
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  Speaker 2: carnage in the battle, but also because this is the
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  Speaker 2: ultimate and final point of the Bible and the ultimate
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  Speaker 2: and final purpose of the universe. Not to us, o Lord,
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  Speaker 2: not to us, but to your name give glory. I
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  Speaker 2: think these words of God in Ezekiel thirty six could
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  Speaker 2: be spoken over the whole world. Over God's purpose for
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  Speaker 2: the whole world and for his people in it. He
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  Speaker 2: is what Ezekiel thirty six, twenty two to twenty three says,
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  Speaker 2: say to the House of Israel. Thus says the Lord God,
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  Speaker 2: it is not for your sake, o House of Israel,
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  Speaker 2: that I am about to act, but for the sake
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  Speaker 2: of my holy name, which you have profaned among the
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  Speaker 2: nations to which you came. And I will vindicate the
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  Speaker 2: holiness of my great Name, which you have profaned among
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  Speaker 2: the nations, and which you have profaned among them, and
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  Speaker 2: the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares
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  Speaker 2: the Lord God. When through you I vindicate my holiness
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  Speaker 2: before their eyes, and he may he's going to save Israel,
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  Speaker 2: not for your sake, but for the vindication of my holiness.
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  Speaker 2: God created the world. God governs the world so that
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  Speaker 2: the holiness of his name, that is, the utter, transcendent
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  Speaker 2: purity and worth and beauty and greatness of his name
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  Speaker 2: himself would be known and enjoyed with white hot affection
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  Speaker 2: by a redeemed people who have found in Him their
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  Speaker 2: supreme treasure. Here's Isaiah forty three six. Bring my sons
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  Speaker 2: from Afar, my daughters from the ends of the earth,
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  Speaker 2: everyone who is called by my name, whom I created
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  Speaker 2: for my glory. He created the world at the beginning
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  Speaker 2: for the manifestation of his glory, and his son is
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  Speaker 2: coming back at the end, so that he might be
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  Speaker 2: marveled at and glorified in his people. Tewond Thessolonians one ten.
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  Speaker 2: Between creation and consummation, over and over again, he declared
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  Speaker 2: this to be his purpose in all that he does.
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  Speaker 2: Why did he deliver his people from Egypt? I acted
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  Speaker 2: for the sake of my name, that it should not
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  Speaker 2: be profaned in the sight of the nations Ezekiel twenty
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  Speaker 2: He leads us in paths of righteousness for his namesake
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  Speaker 2: Psalm twenty three. For your namesake, Oh Lord, pardon my guilt.
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  Speaker 2: That's why he pardons us Psalm twenty five. For your namesake,
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  Speaker 2: you lead me and guide me. Psalm thirty one. Deliver
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  Speaker 2: us and atone for our sins. For your Name's sake
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  Speaker 2: Psalm seventy nine. He saved them for his namesake that
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  Speaker 2: he might make known his mighty power. Some one O
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  Speaker 2: six and perhaps the most powerful summary statement of God's
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  Speaker 2: purpose in all of history is Isaiah forty eight nine
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  Speaker 2: to eleven. For my Name's sake, I defer my anger
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  Speaker 2: for the sake of my praise. I restrain it for
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  Speaker 2: you that I may not cut you off. Behold, I
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  Speaker 2: have refined you, but not a silver. I have tried
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  Speaker 2: you in the firmness of affliction for my own sake.
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  Speaker 2: For my own sake, I do it, for how should
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  Speaker 2: my name be profaned? My glory I will not give
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  Speaker 2: to another. In other words, not to us, o Lord,
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  Speaker 2: not to us, but to your name give glory. So,
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  Speaker 2: when Priya asks, why do you think it is so important?
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  Speaker 2: To give glory to God as opposed to seeking glory ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: The first answer is, this is God's ultimate purpose for
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  Speaker 2: his people, for all of history, for all of creation.
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  Speaker 2: This is his ultimate purpose. We want to join God,
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  Speaker 2: don't we. We want to join God in his ultimate purpose. Indeed,
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  Speaker 2: he tells us to join him in his ultimate purpose
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  Speaker 2: in First Corinthians ten thirty one. Whatever you do, whether
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  Speaker 2: you eat or drink, do all to the glory of God.
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  Speaker 2: This is God's ultimate purpose. He tells us to join
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  Speaker 2: him in it. And then Praya asks, in what ways
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  Speaker 2: can we better practice and recognize God over our lives,
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  Speaker 2: especially in moments when we experience success or recognition from others.
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  Speaker 2: There's time maybe for one brief suggestion. The second half
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  Speaker 2: of Psalm one fifteen one needs to be included when
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  Speaker 2: we quote the verse not to us the Lord, not
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  Speaker 2: to us, but to your name give glory. And here
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  Speaker 2: it is for the sake of your steadfast love and
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  Speaker 2: your faithfulness. That has two implications. One is that when
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  Speaker 2: we succeed at anything and receive recognition, we realize it
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  Speaker 2: is a gift of God's steadfast love. We owe all
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  Speaker 2: our successes to God. All said, what do you have
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  Speaker 2: that you did not receive? And then when you receive it,
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  Speaker 2: why do you boast as if it were not a
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  Speaker 2: gift one Corinthians four to seven or Romans eleven. Who
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  Speaker 2: has given a gift to him that he might be
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  Speaker 2: repaid for From him and through him and to him
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  Speaker 2: are all things to him be glory, forever and ever. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And the other implication of Psalm one point fifteen is
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  Speaker 2: that self exaltation, the self exaltation of God is in
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  Speaker 2: a final sense, the exaltation of the fullness of his grace.
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  Speaker 2: So when he says he does everything for his namesake
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  Speaker 2: or for his glory, he means ultimately for the glory
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  Speaker 2: of his grace, which means that his self exaltation is
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  Speaker 2: a great act of love toward us. We are sinners
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  Speaker 2: and our lives depend on grace. So here's the key pria,
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  Speaker 2: we get the grace, he gets the glory. We get
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  Speaker 2: the pleasure. He gets the.
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  Speaker 1: Praise hemen, we get the grace, he gets the glory,
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  Speaker 1: We get the pleasure, he gets the praise. This God's
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  Speaker 1: centeredness is actually an act of love towards us, because
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  Speaker 1: when God gets the praise, we receive the grace and
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  Speaker 1: satisfaction that comes from treasuring His supreme worth. Speaking of
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  Speaker 1: this God's purpose for the universe, how does that then
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  Speaker 1: shape the way we understand our roles in life? Like today?
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  Speaker 1: What I do today? What mischedules us today? If you
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  Speaker 1: want to take the next step and look at productivity,
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  Speaker 1: see the aspectal John book section that I put together
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  Speaker 1: for you on purpose, productivity, and laziness, starting with that
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  Speaker 1: essential question why do I exist? On page eighty five,
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  Speaker 1: and then from there it gets more practical in working
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  Speaker 1: out God's purpose for my life, in the purpose of
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  Speaker 1: the universe. So if we exist to praise God's worth,
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  Speaker 1: then we have no worth of our own right wrong?
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  Speaker 1: So where do we find our self worth? Where does
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  Speaker 1: that come from? That's up next to Tony Ranky. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see you back here on Thursday.