John Piper ✓
@JohnPiper · Minneapolis, MN · joined 29 Mar 2009
Senior Teacher, Desiring God. Chancellor, Bethlehem College and Seminary. Advocate for serious joy in God through Jesus Christ at any cost.
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“As the body apart from the spirit (breath) is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.” James 2:26
Body = Faith.
Spirit (breath) = works.
A body not breathing is dead.
Faith not working is dead.
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“When I fed them to the full,
they committed adultery
and trooped to the houses of whores.” Jeremiah 5:7
Are you full?
Now what?
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“O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?” Jeremiah 5:3
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“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.” James 1:27
So, sleeping around while serving the poor is not justice.
And staying out of bed while ignoring
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“I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.” Jeremiah 3:15
Preachers, remember: Solid knowledge and understanding precede motivation, illustration, and application. Week after week build their doctrinal framework.
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“I will send . . . to the nations . . . [and] to the coastlands far away, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.” Isaiah 66:19
“The light of the gospel of the glory of Christ.” 2 Corinthians 4:4
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“Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain,
but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
Give her of the fruit of her hands,
and let her works praise her in the gates.”
Proverbs 31:30–31
“Beauty is empty.”
The fear of the Lord fills with substance.
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“At the right hand of Moses the Lord divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name.” Isaiah 63:12
Implying: God does not intend to divide the Red Sea every day. This event is meant to do its God-glorifying work for generations.
Hence the precious place
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“Then Jesus opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.” Luke 24:45
He still does this amazing, supernatural, mind-freeing act.
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“Your people shall all be righteous;
they shall possess the land forever,
the branch of my planting, the work of my hands,
that I might be glorified.”
Isaiah 60:21
If you plant yourself, and make yourself grow, and cause your own fruit of righteousness, then you will get the
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“The sun shall be no more your light by day,
nor for brightness shall the moon give you light;
but the Lord will be your everlasting light,
and your God will be your glory.”
Isaiah 60:19
The point of venturing to express the inconceivable is to impress on us the reality that God
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“I will make you majestic forever, a joy from age to age.” Isaiah 60:15
How is Zion, the people of God, majestic?
They embody and they occasion the joy of all the earth in God.
Majesty of soul from God = joy of soul in God.
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“God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.” Acts 3:26
“God must do for us what he requires of us.” —Matthew Poole
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“Truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.” Isaiah 59:14
When truth falters, righteousness fails.
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“They have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.” Isaiah 59:8
These roads are written in books that ruin young minds with wrong views of God.
Oh, for straight paths of truth and peace.
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“Your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.” Isaiah 59:2
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“The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.” Proverbs 29:25
So the man who trusts is not easily snared.
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“Thus says the One who is high and lifted up,
who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
‘I dwell in the high and holy place,
and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly,
and to revive the heart of the contrite.’” Isaiah 57:15
What
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“An evil man is ensnared in his transgression,
but a righteous man sings and rejoices.” Proverbs 29:6
He sings.
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@JohnPiper John, Hebrews 12:3 is not written to the Body of Christ. It is to Hebrews under the kingdom program—endurance, warning, and “lest ye be wearied.” That is not Romans–Philemon.
You “ponder the so that” while preaching a book that can lose reward, be rejected, and fall s
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@JohnPiper When we are told to give up, Scripture shows us where to look: to Jesus. He suffered before us. He was hostilely treated and even carried the cross before us.
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@JohnPiper How can a deity that decrees everything “endure” anything?
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“Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.” Hebrews 12:3
Ponder this “so that.”
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“Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” Luke 24:26
“The Spirit of Christ predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories.” 1 Peter 1:11
“We are fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that
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@JohnPiper God’s forgiveness is unmerited, but it is not unconditional. It cannot be earned, yet it must be *received through repentance and faith.* (confess and forsake)
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@JohnPiper “…I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.”
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@JohnPiper None of you dull shepherds are anywhere near representative of mercy.
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“Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper,
but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.” Proverbs 28:13
Confession and forsaking do not earn it. It is still mercy. Sweet, sweet mercy!
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Against accounts of the same size
28 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views26 621this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %2.69%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %1.86%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 26 621 | 5 983 | 4.45× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 2.69% | 1.49% | 1.80× |
| Engagement rate | 1.86% | 0.93% | 2.00× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
28.8K17 Sep
26.7K
22.2K18 Sep
24.1K
24.1K19 Sep
32.2K
29.3K20 Sep
29.9K
28K21 Sep
29.4K
29.6K22 Sep
30K
24.4K23 Sep
7.2K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.87%17 Sep
1.63%
1.26%18 Sep
2.10%
1.43%19 Sep
5.33%
1.59%20 Sep
2.77%
1.70%21 Sep
1.94%
1.63%22 Sep
1.60%
1.86%23 Sep
2.31%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes82.3%11 170 in total
Reposts9.9%1 338 in total
Replies1.9%252 in total
Quotes0.4%57 in total
Bookmarks5.6%757 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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