God's Sovereign Grace: Transforming Our Relationship with Him

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God decides what makes for an authentic relationship with him and he tells me the most thrilling satisfying eternity long relationship you and I could ever have is if I put earnestness for me in your heart and I say put it in put it in. [00:00:18]

Now the God of Peace who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the Eternal Covenant even Jesus our lord is the prayer may he equip you Christians with every good thing to do his will working in us that which is pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory forever and ever amen. [00:00:52]

It's my prayer that your love may abound more and more with knowledge and all discernment now don't miss this he's praying that their love would abound more and more so where does more love come from God no point in praying to God that your love will abound more and more if you're the one who's finally responsible. [00:04:18]

Obedience is worked in Us by God through Jesus that's the Fulfillment of the New Covenant this book of Hebrews is all about the New Covenant and the New Covenant you remember is I will take out of you the Heart of Stone I will will put in the heart of Flesh I will write my law upon your heart and put my Commandments in your mind and cause you to walk in my statutes. [00:05:42]

Thanks be to God who puts the same earnestness on your behalf in the heart of Titus for he not only accepted our appeal but being himself very Earnest he has gone to you of his own accord now let me give you the background he wanted Titus to go ahead to Corinth to help get the money ready. [00:06:52]

I think there is real willing here and it is perfectly compatible with God put it in the heart he himself was very Earnest he was very Earnest and God put it there he was Earnest and God put it there he went of his own accord but it grew out of God's initiative. [00:11:37]

God decides what makes for an authentic relationship with him and he tells me the most thrilling satisfying eternity long relationship you and I could ever have is if I put earnestness for me in your heart and I say put it in put it in and I if if he comes and says that to me and I said no no no no no no no no the the only way you and I can have an authentic relationship is if that earnestness arises from me sovereignly ultimately arises out of nothing from me and then I can offer it to you and there's real genuine reciprocity. [00:14:34]

We are slaves to will sin without the influences of God's Sovereign Grace we are slaves to will sin that is we we are bound to will sin without the influence of God's Sovereign Grace these are familiar verses and this is a familiar Truth for for many of you. [00:16:34]

You you were dead in your trespasses and sins in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world according to the prince of the power of the air the spirit that is now working in the sons of Disobedience that's a frightening thing we not only are are morally spiritually dead apart from Grace. [00:17:05]

But God in spite of all this bad news here being rich in Mercy because of the great love the rich Mercy great love with which he loved us even when we were dead see he's prescribing here not me we're dead I'm not bringing anything to this table in our trespasses made us alive that's that's my only hope God made us alive. [00:18:51]

You all in this room right now who are born of God should look back whether it happened like me when you were six and you can't even remember it or maybe it was when you were 40 and you remember it glowingly or 18 or 17 like Tom Stellar what happened to you though you may not have known it or articulated it is that a miracle of new life was imparted to you and the deadness of rebellion and resistance and indifference suddenly was gone was gone and you were reading the Bible differently you were listening to the sermons differently you saw the World differently. [00:19:34]

This is light and Truth god-centered preaching to help you see Christ clearly and treasure him truly I'm your host Dan kruer thank you for listening on our next episode John Piper begins a five-part series titled trusting God in Trials I hope you'll join us for more resources visit Desiring god.org. [00:20:33]

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