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john piper gave a sermon on boasting only in the cross and i lost it. but yay! today i read it in one of his books!!! i'm so excited! can't you tell?! i've never heard/read anyone explain Gal. 6:14 so well in my life. i just love it. so i'm going to share some of it with yall. get excited!
"When paul says in Galatians 6:14, 'Far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.' he is saying that God's will is that the cross always be magnified-that Christ crucified always be our boast and exultation and joy and praise-that Christ get glory and thanks and honor for every good thing in our lives and every bad thing that God turns for good."
"if we desire that there be no boasting except in the cross, then we must live near the cross-indeed we must live on the cross.... And until ourselves are crucified there, our boast will be in ourselves."
" 'life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain.' What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.... If we would make much og God, we must amek much of Christ. His bloody death is the blazing center of the glory of God. if God is to be our boast, what he did and what he is in Christ must be our boast."
"Paul means something that will change every part of your life. he means that, for the christian, all other boasting should also be a boasting in the cross. all exultation in anything else should be exultation in the cross. if you exult in the hope of glory, you should be exulting in the cross of Christ. if you exult in tribulation because tribulationworks hope, you should be exulting in the cross of Christ. if you exult in your weaknesses, or in people of God, you should be exulting in the cross of Christ."
"When paul says in Galatians 6:14, 'Far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.' he is saying that God's will is that the cross always be magnified-that Christ crucified always be our boast and exultation and joy and praise-that Christ get glory and thanks and honor for every good thing in our lives and every bad thing that God turns for good."
"if we desire that there be no boasting except in the cross, then we must live near the cross-indeed we must live on the cross.... And until ourselves are crucified there, our boast will be in ourselves."
" 'life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain.' What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.... If we would make much og God, we must amek much of Christ. His bloody death is the blazing center of the glory of God. if God is to be our boast, what he did and what he is in Christ must be our boast."
"Paul means something that will change every part of your life. he means that, for the christian, all other boasting should also be a boasting in the cross. all exultation in anything else should be exultation in the cross. if you exult in the hope of glory, you should be exulting in the cross of Christ. if you exult in tribulation because tribulationworks hope, you should be exulting in the cross of Christ. if you exult in your weaknesses, or in people of God, you should be exulting in the cross of Christ."
