{"id":389,"date":"2011-04-03T20:26:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T01:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rogereolson.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2011-08-18T19:27:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T19:27:59","slug":"john-piper-on-gods-sovereignty-and-those-who-disagree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rogereolson\/2011\/04\/john-piper-on-gods-sovereignty-and-those-who-disagree\/","title":{"rendered":"John Piper on God&#39;s sovereignty and those who disagree"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Please view and listen to the following video clip on youtube.com:<\/p>\n<p>Why does God allow Satan to live? \u2013 John Piper<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not familiar with Youtube, just go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.youtube.com<\/a> and enter that title into the search field.\u00a0 Click on the title when you see it as a live link.\u00a0 It\u2019s only a few minutes long.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think John Piper is saying about those who disagree with him about God\u2019s sovereignty?\u00a0 His comment follows immediately after his explanation of those who say they do not agree with what he says about God\u2019s purpose for allowing Satan to live.<\/p>\n<p>Listen carefully.\u00a0 Then, if you please, comment here.\u00a0 Whom do you think he is talking about?\u00a0 What does he suggest (or say) will happen to them?\u00a0 What do you think about what he says?\u00a0 How do you think most impressionable, young people will think he means (even if you don\u2019t think he really means what it sounds like he says)?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please view and listen to the following video clip on youtube.com: Why does God allow Satan to live? \u2013 John Piper If you\u2019re not familiar with Youtube, just go to www.youtube.com and enter that title into the search field.\u00a0 Click on the title when you see it as a live link.\u00a0 It\u2019s only a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>John Piper on God&#039;s sovereignty and those who disagree<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Please view and listen to the following video clip on youtube.com: Why does God allow Satan to live? - John Piper If you&#039;re not familiar with Youtube,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rogereolson\/2011\/04\/john-piper-on-gods-sovereignty-and-those-who-disagree\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"John Piper on God&#039;s sovereignty and those who disagree\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Please view and listen to the following video clip on youtube.com: Why does God allow Satan to live? - John Piper If you&#039;re not familiar with Youtube,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rogereolson\/2011\/04\/john-piper-on-gods-sovereignty-and-those-who-disagree\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Roger E. 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