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Since 1980 John Piper has labored in the ministry of preaching at Bethlehem Baptist Church under the conviction that “People are starving for the greatness of God.” Join John Piper as he exults in God through the exposition of the biblical text, and taste and see that the Lord is good.

What’s the problem here? Is this wrong? To plan and intend to go places and do things? No, not per se. In verse 15 he is going to say it is legitimate to plan to do this or that. What’s wrong then, if it’s not planning? What’s wrong is that the plan that is made in verse 13 is made in the mind and spoken with the mouth (“Come now you who say …”) without taking a true view of life and God into account. Verse 14 talks about the true view of life that is not being taken into account, and verse 15 talks