John Piper - Prayer Changes Things - Sermon Jam

Thank you so much dear piper ...awesum leading by holy ghost ....i need to ask in his will ..for his glory...we have ask our father in his will so dat he will give us in his sovernity..our prayers are still in his will ...all we get is comfort through prayer...thank u jesus

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This is amazing! Thank you so much!!

Remember that good fruit is accompanied by the working of the spirit in us. Therefore if you truly have saving faith then you will produce fruits. And without the other each is dead. Some will say well you're saying we're saved by works. Not at all, we are saved by grace through faith in christ. But the evidence of the spirit dwelling in you is the production of its fruit through you. And these fruits are not ours but Gods less we nullify grace and faith. Therefore we are saved by grace through faith with the evidence of the production of good fruit by God through the spirit pouring out from our lives.

If by prayer we are able to change things, that means we can tell God to do something that He didn't want to do but He do it because we prayed? From this implication, who is sovereign? Us or God?

@Chip Kempston "Every conditional statement in the New Testament refutes Calvinism." Conditional truths are true regardless of ones ability to meet the condition. It does not necessitate that one must be able to accomplish the condition for the statement to be true. 
The truth is God brilliantly snares mankind by mans pride with conditional statements. "I can meet that condition" , "I can do that" , "I can do this". Typical flesh. All the while mercifully causing men and women everywhere to fulfill these conditions and confess but by the grace of God there go I. Works religion has you fooled.

Parece que predica muy bien

@chipk77 God saying we must do something doesn't mean he doesn't plan, enable, and irresistibly move us by the holy spirit to willingly do the act.

It's the same with being saved.  You must believe in Jesus and call him lord to be saved, but HOW do we do that? We're sinners, we love darkness and hate the light because our deeds are evil. We think Christ is foolishnessness and a stumbling block until God DOES something, opening our eyes to the light of the knowledge of the glory of God and calling us to himself.  We take the steps, willingly, only because God enables and CALLS, sovereignly. 

"Those whom he foreknew(loved), he also predestined. And those whom he predestined he also called. And those whom he called, he justified. And those whom he justified, he glorified."

My friend, our prayers don't change his plan--he planned our prayers.

Any idea what sermon this is from???

@fear123wz when you say a calvanist what exactly do you mean by that?

eh an unbeliever will always make fun of god

yeah i prayed about my salvation and i got an answer on my iphone LOL :P

Great work, i've been listening to this over and over again. Which John Piper Sermon is this?

TRUE

What is the song?

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@Brenan Duffy will do. I'm on my mobile now, but will pm you when I can jump on my pc.

Christ's law is not about obeying a list of commands, or about never sinning, which John is not saying, but about love. If you read the context, this is abundantly clear because John says it explicitly multiple times. John also contradicts your statement by making it clear that everyone sins (1 Jn 1:8). To respond further, I'd need to know which specific verse you are referring to in 1 John, because I don't think it says what you think it does.

Ro 8 is about the Christian's attitude toward suffering, not an exposition of Calvinistic predestination (yet another anachronism). In any case, the group to which the latter statements apply is still "those who love God." Those passages shouldn't really be termed "conditional" as there is no condition. They are "hina clauses" and therefore denote purpose rather than potentiality. This is evident in that they are not phrased "if...then" but "...so that..." Luke 13:3-5 is not a hina clause.