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Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (Third Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

The pursuit of pleasure is not optional. It is essential. Scripture reveals that the great business of life is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. In this paradigm-shattering work, John Piper reveals that the debate between duty and delight doesn’t truly exist: Delight is our duty. Join him as he unveils stunning, life-impacting truths you saw in the Bible but never dared to believe. The...

The verb tenses make John’s intention unmistakable: “Everyone who goes on believing [pisteuōn, present, continuous action] that Jesus is the Christ has been born [gennēsanta, perfect, completed action with abiding effects] of God.” Faith is the evidence of new birth, not the cause of it. This is consistent with John’s whole book (cf. 1 John 2:29; 3:9; 4:2–3; 4:7). Since faith and repentance are possible only because of the regenerating work of God, both are called the gift of God: Even when we were
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