This next post in the Essential Piper Series focuses on John Piper's teaching of the Supremacy of Christ—the truth that Jesus Christ is preeminent in every way over every thing. Here, in these quotes from "Sex and the Supremacy of Christ, Part 2" given at our 2004 National Conference, John Piper exhorts us to savor the supremacy of Christ by making him supreme in our everyday lives.
All the planets of your life—your sexuality and desires, your commitments and beliefs, your aspirations and dreams, your attitudes and convictions, your habits and disciplines, your solitude and relationships, your labor and leisure, your thinking and feeling—all the planets of your life are held in orbit by the greatness and gravity and blazing brightness of the supremacy of Jesus Christ at the center of your life. And if he ceases to be the bright, blazing, satisfying beauty at the center of your life, the planets will fly into confusion, and a hundred things will be out of control, and sooner or later they will crash into destruction.
… Oh, that the almighty God would help us see and savor the supremacy of his Son. Give yourself to this. Study this. Cultivate this passion. Eat and drink and sleep this quest to know the supremacy of Christ.
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