John Piper Sermons You Don’t Know God If You Don’t Love Christ
This new teaching by Pastor John Piper titled “You Don’t Know God If You Don’t Love Christ” is what we are bringing to you to listen to and meditate on.
Pastor John starts by telling us that We all know Jesus’s answer to the question, “What’s the first and great commandment?” The first and great commandment is “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37). And other Gospels say, “and with all your strength” (Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27). So, loving God with your heart and all that you are is the first and great demand of Jesus.
And then in Matthew 10:37 (it’s interesting how these verse references are memorable — 22:37 and 10:37): “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me,” Jesus says. “Whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” Now you’ve got two powerful, deep, life-transforming commands: (1) love God the Father with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and (2) love Jesus more than you love children, more than you love parents — surely, more than you love anything.
What’s the relationship between loving God and loving Jesus? Pastor John tells us that the answer is this: you can’t have the one without the other. Loving Jesus is the test of whether you love God. Loving God is the test of whether you truly love Jesus.
Another question is What is the nature of this love? Pastor John goes further to tell us that of course it would include obedience. But oh, it is not less than being transformed by a love of treasuring, admiring, delighting in, being satisfied by this most beautiful treasure of all — like Paul said in Philippians 3:8, “I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.”.
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