Look at the Book show

Look at the Book

Summary: Look at the Book is John Piper's ongoing series of 8-12 minute videos to help you learn to read the Bible for yourself.

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 1 Corinthians 10:13, Part 2: What Is the Way of Escape in Temptation? | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

How can God say he will provide us with an escape in our tests and trials while also saying he will help us endure them?

 1 Corinthians 10:13, Part 1: Is Every Temptation a Test from God? | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

Don’t limit the word “temptation” to something that lures us into sin. Anything that tries to pull us away from God is a temptation. Anything.

 Philippians 3:18–21: Our Bodies Will Shine Like the Sun | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

When this life comes to an end, when our frail bodies sputter for the last time, God will raise us from the dead and give us glorious bodies.

 Philippians 3:18–21: What Will My New Body Be Like? | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

Someday soon we get to exchange our crippled and lowly body for a glorious and heavenly one.

 Philippians 3:18–21: Live Like You Belong in Heaven | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

If you are Christ’s, you don’t belong here. This is not your home. Your citizenship is in heaven.

 Philippians 3:18–21: How to Be an Enemy of the Cross | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

Even though Paul could outdo every Pharisee in law-keeping, he had no confidence in the law. But he had full confidence in the cross.

 Philippians 3:18–21: Two Ways to Oppose God | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

God’s enemies will face God’s eternal wrath. So who are these enemies of the cross, and how do I know I am not one of them?

 Philippians 3:18–21: Two Ways to Nullify the Cross | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

The cross was designed by God to humble us. It reminds us that we need Christ’s blood to rescue us, and his power to strengthen us.

 Philippians 3:18–21: Are You Ruled by Your Desires? | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

To love the world and all its riches may scratch an itch for a moment, but it will cost you everything in the end.

 Philippians 3:18–21: A Mini-Theology of Hell | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

As hard as it may be, we must face the reality that hell exists and is promised to all of God’s enemies.

 Philippians 3:18–21: Do You Weep Over the Perishing? | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

God does not call us to learn just from Paul’s teaching but also from his emotions. Do you weep over the lost like the apostle Paul?

 Philippians 3:17: The Kind of Person You Should Imitate | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

The question is not if you are imitating, but who. We either imitate those who walk toward heaven or those who walk toward hell.

 Philippians 3:17: Should Someone Imitate Your Life? | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

God has given you life to honor him, display him, and summon others to follow him.

 Job 19:11–42:12: The Lord Gives and Takes Away | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

Though God may take away, he has made a promise — and sealed it with his Son’s blood — that he will give back more.

 Job 2:4–10: How a Fool Responds to Suffering | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

We have a refuge in times of trouble, safety amid life’s storms. Only a fool curses the shelter and runs into the eye of the storm.

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