Don't Waste Your Life (By John Piper)
No Challenge - No Change ! (Joyce Meyer - Joyce Meyer Ministries)
Since Sept. 11, 2001, I have seen more clearly than ever how essential it is to
exult in the importance of Jesus Christ crucified for sinners and risen from the
dead. Jesus Christ must be fully revealed in all our God-talk. It will not do, in
this day of many religions, to talk about the glory of God in vague ways.
God Without Jesus Christ Is No God. And A no-God Can't Save Or Satisfy
The Soul. And a no-God, whatever his name or whatever his religion -- will
be a wasted life. God-in-Christ Is The ONLY True God And The Only Path
To Joy.
To bring us to this highest and most durable of all pleasures, God made His Son,
Jesus Christ, a bloody spectacle of blameless suffering and death. This Is What
It Cost To Rescue Us From A Wasted Life. The eternal Son of God "did not
count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing." He
took "the form of a servant" and was born "in the likeness of men....He humbled
himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross"
(Philippians 2:6-8).
All Things Were Made For Him (Jesus)
This Jesus Was And Is A Real Historical Man In Whom "All The Fullness Of
God Lives iI Bodily Form (Colossians 2:9 NIV). Since He is God of God, Light
of Light, very God of very God," as the Nicene Creed says, and since his death and
resurrection are the central act of God in history, it is not surprising to hear the Bible
say, "All things were created through Him (Jesus) and for Him" (Colossians 1:16).
For Him! That Means For His Glory.
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Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper is courtesy of Good News Tracts.
Please visit their website: www.GoodNewsTracts.org.
Note: Some words and phrases in this tract have been more clearly stated for the easier
understanding of the reader.
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