Episode notes
Based on a sermon by one of my professors, Dr. John Piper,
II Corinthians 4:16-18
DO NOT LOSE HEART
Intro: Did anyone come here today hoping, praying, longing, for someone to sing something, pray something, or preach something that would strip all your hope away?
• Did anyone come here hoping to be discouraged?
• Did anyone come to the show today hoping that someone would knock all the wind out of your sails?
• No! Nobody came here that way today.
Nobody came saying, “Please hurt me. Please strip away all my motivation for serving the Lord. Please discourage me. Please defeat me.”
• We came here looking for the opposite, didn’t we?
• We came here looking for encouragement, seeking hope, desiring to be motivated to greater things in the Lord.
• We came here looking for help.
• If I told you there was a secret that would allow you to have hope in this world, would you want to know what it was?
• In a world that is so filled with hopelessness, discouragement, and defeat, if I told you that I knew a way you live your life every day and not “lose heart”, would you refuse to hear me tell you that secret?
• Of course not! That is why we are here.
Let’s read from the Word of God!