Wow! It's kind of a plebeian exclamation....but Wow! I don't know what else to say. This past weekend I was in a long conversation with other Christians....pouring my heart out on how hard it was to see loved ones....as decades roll on....continue to ignore the warnings and wonderful answers of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The conversation depleted me. It was emotional....and today....this morning....I boot up John Piper's sermon of the day....and lo and behold....praise God in his wonderful and mysterious ways....the topic of the sermon is directed to the very pleadings that have been vexing me. I laughed a few times in joy...and almost cried. Would you like to hear that sermon? Is God moving in your heart in this same way....in severe concern for the eternal souls of your loved ones? The easiest way to hear this sermon is simply to Google....John Piper....The Son Of Man Must Be Lifted Up....Like The Serpent....or you can go directly to John Piper's ministry....desiringgod.org.....click on the menu on the upper right.....click on podcasts....click on sermon of the day....click on subscribe....(you are not subscribing to anything)....click on Apple podcasts.....and then click on Latest Episode.
Addendum: John Piper ended the wonderful sermon mentioned above by reading Charles Spurgeon's conversion testimony from his own autobiography. It was Easter Sunday 2001....and my wife and son and I attended a worship service at Spurgeon's Metropolitan Tabernacle in London on the south side of the Thames. A film was made in 2010....a docudrama I guess it would be called.....C. H. Spurgeon: The People's Preacher. I watched it again tonight. The passage that John Piper relates in the sermon is dramatized in the film. It's a wonderful way to spend an evening....learning of the life of this.....The Prince of Preachers. Just Google it and watch. It's an 1:09 minutes.
