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From John Piper’s sermon: The Danger of Drifting from the Word

The life of this world is not a lake. It is a river. And it is flowing downward to destruction. If you do not listen earnestly to Jesus and consider him daily and fix your eyes on him hourly, then you will not stand still, you will go backward. You will float by.

Drifting is a deadly thing in the Christian life. And the remedy to it, according to Hebrews 2:1, is, “Pay close attention to what you have heard.” That is, consider what God is saying in his Son Jesus. Fix your eyes on what God is saying and doing in the Son of God, Jesus Christ…

and then some hope…

One of the most powerful words to me in Kenya as I was teaching was the simple prayer in Psalm 90:14, “O satisfy us in the morning with your lovingkindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.” That is our “job” as Christians: being satisfied in the morning with the love of God spoken to us in the Son of God, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days—and so be free from the deceitfulness of downriver desires.

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