Piper's "Getting Old for the Glory of God"

[colored3x5s]

Philippians 1:6: "I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ."

Isaiah 46:3-4, "[You] have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb; even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save."

Comments

[dantsai]

so you ended up listening to the sermon after all :)

[colored3x5s]

yeep.

didn't know you had an lj, btw.

clavid

[anonymous]

i just checked my gReader and saw this post and the post you shared about Christ being our sanctification. some questions i've been thinking about.

If God is 100% for us now b/c of Christ...
1. What exactly does "God being for us" mean?
2. What then does it mean to strive to please God?
3. How then is it possible to displease God? How is it that by our sinfulness on this side of salvation can still detract from God's pleasure in us?
4. What then of differing levels of treasures in heaven? Are we somehow adding to Christ's righteousness?

Re: clavid

[colored3x5s]

I'm guessing 4 builds upon 3 builds upon 2 builds upon 1... I'm not sure how 1 and 2 are related, buut... I found something that might help clarify what Piper means by "God being for us". You can read Is God for Us or for Himself?.

We praise what we enjoy because the delight is incomplete until it is expressed in praise. If we were not allowed to speak of what we value and celebrate what we love and praise what we admire, our joy would not be full. Therefore, if God is truly for us, if he would give us the best and make our joy full, he must make it his aim to win our praise for himself. Not because he needs to shore up some weakness in himself or compensate for some deficiency, but because he loves us and seeks the fullness of our joy that can only be found in knowing and praising him, the most beautiful of all beings