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  (CLIP) SUNNY DAYS DON’T MAGNIFY CHRIST MOST
  by John Piper
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of finding true
satisfaction in Christ, especially in the midst of hardships and
challenges. It highlights that true joy and fulfillment come from being
satisfied in Christ above all things, even in the face of suffering and
trials. The ultimate purpose of creation, redemption, and mission is to
magnify Christ among the nations, with missionaries being the bridge
between this purpose and the means of fulfillment.

Topics: "True Satisfaction in Christ", "Joy in Trials"
Scripture References: Psalm 67:3, Philippians 4:11, 2 Corinthians 12:9

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of finding true satisfaction in
Christ, especially in the midst of hardships and challenges. It
highlights that true joy and fulfillment come from being satisfied in
Christ above all things, even in the face of suffering and trials. The
ultimate purpose of creation, redemption, and mission is to magnify
Christ among the nations, with missionaries being the bridge between
this purpose and the means of fulfillment.

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CONTENT
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It's in the hardships, not the sunny days that you make most of Christ.
Anybody can be cheerful on a sunny day. Healthy, relationships all
working, no threat to your life, piece of cake, the world is not
impressed that you're happy on that day.

It is in the hardships and the dangers and the risks and the losses and
the suffering of the missionary life where the all-sustaining, all-
satisfying greatness of Christ shines most brightly in the soul of the
missionary servant who is so satisfied that that soul satisfaction
carries him through all missionary trials. So hence the title of the
message. Maybe cut it out, put it in the front of your Bible, some of
you especially.

Christ magnified in his world through servants satisfied in his worth.
Let's just say it like this, the purpose of God in creation and
redemption and mission, so the the total purpose. I like to have clear
the purpose of the universe or fit in.

The total purpose of the universe, all creation, all redemption, all
mission, the total purpose is Christ magnified among the nations. The
essential means, good so far, purpose means bridge. The means of that
purpose being fulfilled among the nations is nations so satisfied in
Christ, death can't break the joy.

That's how it happens. Let the nations be glad is not a clever book
title, it's a quote from Psalm 67. Missions is let the nations be glad
because gladness in God makes God look great, and he can look great
without it.

Not in that heart, and we want people to make much of God in their
heart. So the purpose, Christ magnified among the nations, the means,
nations coming to be satisfied in Christ above all things, the bridge
between purpose and the means is missionaries. Missions, and I'm arguing
in this sermon that those missionaries are souls so satisfied in Christ
that that soul satisfaction in Christ carries them through all
missionary suffering.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/NUQPwoo8h60.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/john-piper/clip-sunny-days-dont-magnify-christ-most/
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