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  DON'T WASTE YOUR LIFE - PART 6
  by John Piper
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Summary: The sermon calls listeners to prioritize Christ above all
things, take risks and sacrifices for Him, and raise up a generation to
display His worth.

Duration: 5:49 Topics: "Suffering For Christ", "Spreading The Gospel"
Scripture References: Matthew 16:24, Mark 8:35, Romans 8:18, 1 Corinthians 15:58, Philippians 3:8, Colossians 3:17, 2 Timothy 2:3, Hebrews 12:2, 1 Peter 3:15, Revelation 2:10

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of embracing suffering, pain, and
shame for the joy of knowing Jesus, calling on the audience to display
Christ's worth above all else. It challenges individuals to be a
generation that treasures Christ, takes risks, and sacrifices for the
sake of spreading His supreme value to the nations, believing that
through such commitment, many will come to know and believe in Jesus
Christ.

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CONTENT
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Then maybe 1 Peter 3.15 would come true for us. I believe with all my
heart that if God raises up a generation like that who doesn't waste
their lives, the Great Commission will come to pass. Because if you are
not the generation, if this generation does not embrace suffering, does
not embrace pain, does not embrace shame for the surpassing value and
joy of knowing Jesus, you will simply be passed over and God will get
His work done another way, perhaps by the New Christendom, as Philip
Jenkins calls it, in the South and in the East.

So, I call you to embrace Christ and embrace suffering and embrace the
reward of knowing Him. If your passion is to display Christ, if your
passion is to treasure Christ above all things, if your passion is to
take risks and sacrifice whatever it takes in order to display His
worth, then the Middle East that you're committed to, East Asia that
you're committed to, Sao Paulo, Brazil that you're committed to, then
Toulouse, France that you're committed to, then these commitments will
be filled and thousands of people will see the supreme value of Jesus
Christ in your life and they will believe and written over their life
and your life and I pray my life will be the words, this life was not
wasted. This life gladly displayed the supreme worth of Jesus Christ.

Let's pray. Oh God, no words of mine, but only the power of the Holy
Spirit can raise up a generation in which 200,000 young people will say,
I'm going, I'm laying it down, I will count Jesus Christ as precious
above all things, I will risk my life, I will indeed, if you call,
sacrifice my life in order to display among the unreached peoples of the
world the sweet beauty and infinitely satisfying glory of Jesus Christ.
Oh God, come, I pray, and perform in the lives of these young people
whatever it takes so that they can say at the end, I didn't waste it and
hear the words, well done.

Good and faithful servant, in Christ I pray.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/Jp6Ykhf85rk.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/john-piper/dont-waste-your-life-part-6/
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