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The Pleasures of God

The Pleasures of God is perhaps the most important book that John Piper has written. It is certainly the freshest and most penetrating. Many preachers and writers are calling Christians today to be more God-centered. The irony is that even the call to be God-centered focuses attention on us, on what we must do. Certainly the Bible spends no small part of its pages telling us what we must do, but it does so out of profound God-centeredness. And here is a book that does not tell us what we must do to be God-centered; it simply is God-centered. Intoxicating.

D. A. C ARSON , research professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

There are quite a few books every Christian should read. And there are some that need to be read a second time to really digest them. But then there are a select few that should be read and reread and reread perhaps every year. John Pipers The Pleasures of God belongs on that to be reread every year list.

R ANDY N EWMAN , campus minister and author of Questioning Evangelism

John Piper takes ten of Gods expressed delights and searches their significance and implications with rare zeal. What a privilege to have someone think through these biblical realities so lovingly and seek out our biblical reactions so keenly. If all Christian books were offerings on an Australian barbecue, this would be one of the juiciest steaks aroundhot, healthy, and wonderful.

S IMON M ANCHESTER , senior minister, St. Thomas Church, North Sydney, Australia

In Desiring God , John Piper introduced us to the idea that the pursuit of Gods glory and the pursuit of our joy are not at odds, for the pursuit of Gods glory is our joy. In The Pleasures of God , Piper helps us to see that Gods glory is revealed in great part in what makes Him happy. The Pleasures of God is an invitation to meditate on what makes God happy. If what makes God happy reveals His glory, and if we become like Him as we behold His glory (2 Corinthians 3:18), then meditating on the pleasures of God will be a means for increased joy in God and gradual conformity into His likeness. If that is your desire, then take up this new edition and read it over and over again.

J UAN R. S ANCHEZ Jr., preaching pastor, High Pointe Baptist Church, Austin, Texas

This book is breathtaking in both its scope and its focus and constitutes a joyful yet prophetic call to adore and worship Godwhose infinite worth and excellence is revealed in what he loves and delights in. It is at once beautiful and moving, serious, stretching, and profound. The Pleasures of God surely ranks with J. I. Packers Knowing God as one of the most profoundly moving and world-view forming Christian books of modern times.

R EVEREND R ICHARD M. C UNNINGHAM , CEO of Intervarsity UK

Few books are genuinely life-changing. The Pleasures of God by John Piper is clearly one of them. Ive often said to people, If I were on a desert island and could have only three books, in addition to the Bible, Id choose Desiring God and The Pleasures of God by John Piper.

S AM S TORMS , president, Enjoying God Ministries, Kansas City, Missouri

Books have profound potentialparticularly the one you hold in your hand. John Piper is saturated with God, and his passion fills the pages of this book.

C.J. M AHANEY , Sovereign Grace Ministries

Run, dont walk, to buy this remarkable work.

J ONI E ARECKSON T ADA AND S TEVEN E STES

I encourage you to read [ The Pleasures of God ] twice; once to see the portrait as a whole, a second time to savor the sheer delight of loving a God so magnificent, so excellent, so holy.

E RWIN W. L UTZER , senior pastor, The Moody Church

In our fallen world, staring at the sun blinds us. But, by Gods grace, contemplating God gives us spiritual sight. Of all of Pastor Johns books, this is the most radical. Get this vision of God, and begin to see.

M ARK D EVER , pastor, Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington, DC

T HE P LEASURES OF G OD
P UBLISHED BY M ULTNOMAH B OOKS
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Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture references in the . Scripture quotations marked (RSV) are taken from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Italics in Scripture quotations reflect the authors added emphasis.

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The Library of Congress has catalogued the earlier edition as follows:
Piper, John, 1946
The pleasures of God: meditations on Gods delight in being God / John Piper.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-60142-291-0
1. God. I. Title.
BT102.P534 1991
231dc20

91-11364

Page references to Desiring God cited in this book correspond to the trade paperback edition published in 2011 unless otherwise noted.

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O THER B OOKS BY J OHN P IPER

Desiring God

The Dangerous Duty of Delight

Finally Alive

Future Grace

A Hunger for God

Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ

Whats the Difference?

Dont Waste Your Life

When I Dont Desire God

Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die

God Is the Gospel

What Jesus Demands from the World

When the Darkness Will Not Lift

Spectacular Sins

John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God

This Momentary Marriage

A Sweet and Bitter Providence

Think

Bloodlines

To My Sons

Karsten Luke Piper
Benjamin John Piper
Abraham Christian Piper
Barnabas William Piper

C ONTENTS

A CKNOWLEDGMENTS

To Jesus Christ I acknowledge infinite indebtedness. This is not an attempt to repay. That would be an offense to grace. It is an act of worship. From the time I came into being, I have gone deeper and deeper in debt to Christ, and I will continue to do so forever. Every breath, every heartbeat, every book, every friend puts me another degree deeper in debt to grace. In this I rejoice, because the Giver gets the glory (1 Peter 4:11).

Under the waterfall of this never-ending grace, people surround me with love and help. In the thirty-second year of my ministry at Bethlehem Baptist Church, I marvel at the support of my people and the elders of this church. They pray for me. They listen to me. They correct me. They encourage me. I thank God for more than three decades of mediated mercy.

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