John Piper Sermons – Ingredients for a Theology of Feasting

John Piper Sermons Ingredients for a Theology of Feasting

This new teaching by Pastor John Piper titled “Ingredients for a Theology of Feasting” is what we are bringing to you to listen to and meditate on.

Pastor John started by defining what feasting means. Feasting is the enjoyment of abundance.  When you turn to the Bible, you find that the word feast does not always have this connotation even of abundance in view. If you do a word search on the word feast in the Old Testament, it’s just full of “prescribed feasts,” as they’re called in English. And they include Passover, Feast of Firstfruits, Feast of Weeks, Feast of Pentecost, Feast of Trumpets, Feast of Booths.

Four Biblical Truths About Feasting

1. Feasting can be good — and bad.

First, the Bible is clear that feasting in and of itself may be a very good thing or a bad thing, depending on other factors.

“Mere abundance of food and drink does not make for a happy family or happy community. There must be more to it.”

For example, Proverbs 17:1 says, “Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.” In other words, mere abundance of food and drink does not make for a happy family or happy community. There must be more to it.

2. Feasting rejoices in God’s kindness. God intends that the abundance he provides for our physical enjoyment, the enjoyment of our senses, should echo in our hearts with thanksgiving to God and be made holy by the word and prayer. 1 Timothy 6:17, where Paul says we should set our hope on God, “who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.” In other words, the sights and sounds and smells and tastes and touch of good things that God has made are not mainly tests to see if we will make them our god and become idolaters, but rather, they are mainly pleasures to send our hearts joyful and thankful back to God. That’s their main purpose for existence.

3. Feasting is our destiny. One of the beautiful ways God describes the destiny of those who will accept salvation, his invitation, is a final feast with him in the age to come. Isaiah 25:6: “On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine. . . . He will swallow up death forever.” That’s a magnificent picture of our hope beyond this age, beyond the grave.

4. Feasting shows off Christ’s supreme value. In some measure now, and then perfectly at the last day, God himself will be our feast. Psalm 36:7–8: “How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind . . . feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.”

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