John Piper Sermons

You are converted to Christ when Jesus becomes for you a treasure chest of holy joy.

God enjoys eternal happiness in himself, and he delights in satisfying his people with the overflow of that abundant joy.

There are at least four reasons for why God has given work to mankind.

The mindset of the new creation does not just agree that Christ died for sinners; it glories in the cross.

When you get your paycheck, do you look to the Spirit for how to use this money for God's kingdom?

If we really care about a person's ultimate welfare, we will confront them with their sin as well as comfort them in their trouble.

People who bear the fruit of the Spirit know they are worthy only of condemnation. They know that the only pay they can earn is the wrath of God.

A Christian is not a person who experiences zero bad desires. A Christian is a person who is at war with every distorted desire by the power of the Spirit.

Freedom flows forth in love just as surely as a bubbling spring flows forth in a mountain stream.

Being a loving person is absolutely essential to being saved, because the faith which saves by its very essence works through love.

Your enjoyment of freedom is much more important to God than many of the day-to-day decisions that fill us with so much concern.

For Paul, the experience of freedom is not icing on the cake of Christianity. Freedom in Christ is Christianity.

We are freed from the burden of the law when we are given the power to fulfill it from within. And that happens when Christ is formed in us.

If Satan can't get you to disobey God's commands, then he'll try to make you obey them with the wrong spirit.

When you entrust yourself to Christ you honor him, and he would be denying himself to turn you away.

If we don't understand why the law was given, we can kill ourselves with it.

It would be terribly wrong to say that the Mosaic law was opposed in its teaching to the Abrahamic covenant.

When Christ experienced the curse of the law on the cross it was not his own but ours.

If your life is flat, empty, without exhilaration, without significance, without a single and fulfilling orientation, it is because you do not see the risen Christ for who he really is.

Though arrogance and rage assail, conspiracy will not prevail.