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Desiring God (John Piper) June 19, 2025 12m

Jesus’s Warnings to the Comfortable

Summary

This sermon addresses the pervasive Western obsession with wealth and greed, contrasting it with Jesus's warnings to the rich found in Luke 6:24-26. It explores the tension between these "woes" and the blessings of the poor in spirit mentioned in Matthew's Beatitudes. The practical takeaway is to reconcile our comfortable lives with these challenging biblical teachings on materialism.

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