{"id":3357,"date":"2009-01-09T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianwarnock.com\/2009\/01\/john-piper-on-exultation-in-preaching-2\/"},"modified":"2018-01-15T14:24:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T14:24:05","slug":"john-piper-on-exultation-in-preaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2009\/01\/john-piper-on-exultation-in-preaching\/","title":{"rendered":"John Piper on Exultation in Preaching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

This from John Piper:<\/p>\n

\u201cGod exists to be worshipped\u2014to be admired and treasured and desired and praised. Therefore, the Word of God is written primarily to produce worship. <\/a>This means that if that Word is handled like a hot-dish recipe or a repair manual, it is mishandled. And the people will suffer. The Truth of God begs to be handled with exultation. And our hearts yearn for this and need it. Something in us starts to die when precious and infinitely valuable realities are handled without feelings and words of wonder and exultation. That is, a church starts to die without preaching.<\/p>\n

But, of course, this assumes something massive. To treasure the Truth, and to love the Truth, and be impassioned about the Truth, and to exult in the Truth, you have to know the Truth. So it\u2019s not enough to say that preaching is exultation. We must also say it is \u201cexpository exultation.\u201d It is exultation in the Truth of God\u2019s Word. And the exultation is in proportion to the Truth delivered.\u201d<\/p>\n

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