# “The supremacy of Christ” by John Piper

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2011/06/14/the-supremacy-of-christ-by-john-piper/
- Published: 2011-06-14T14:27:59-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“Oh, that the risen, living Christ, therefore, would come to us even now by His 
Spirit and through His Word and reveal to us:

—the supremacy of His _deity, _equal with God the Father in all His attributes—the
radiance of His glory and the exact imprint of His nature, infinite, boundless in
all His excellencies;

—the supremacy of His _eternality _that makes the mind of man explode with the unsearchable
thought that Christ never had a beginning, but simply always was; sheer, absolute
reality while all the universe is fragile, contingent, like a shadow by comparison
to His all-defining, ever-existing substance;

—the supremacy of His never-changing _constancy _in all His virtues and all His 
character and all His commitments—the same yesterday, today, and forever;

—the supremacy of His _knowledge _that makes the Library of Congress look like a
matchbox, and all the information on the Internet look like a little 1940’s farmers
almanac, and quantum physics—and everything Stephen Hawking ever dreamed—seem like
a first-grade reader;

—the supremacy of His _wisdom _that has never been perplexed by any complication
and can never be counseled the wisest of men;

—the supremacy of His _authority _over heaven and earth and hell, without whose 
permission no man and no demon can move one inch, who changes times and seasons,
removes kings and sets up kings; does according to His will among the host of heaven
and among the inhabitants of the earth; so none can stay His hand or say to Him,“
What have you done?”

—the supremacy of His _providence _without which not a single bird falls to the 
ground in the furthest reaches of the Amazon forest, or a single hair of any head
turns black or white;

—the supremacy of His _word _that moment by moment upholds the universe and holds
in being all the molecules and atoms and subatomic world we have never yet dreamed
of;

—the supremacy of His _power _to walk on water, cleanse lepers and heal the lame,
open the eyes of the blind, cause the deaf to hear and storms to cease and the dead
to rise, with a single word, or even a thought;

—the supremacy of His _purity _never to sin, or to have one millisecond of a bad
attitude or an evil, lustful thought;

—the supremacy of His _trustworthiness _never to break His word or let one promise
fall to the ground;

—the supremacy of His _justice _to render in due time all moral accounts in the 
universe settled either on the cross or in hell;

—the supremacy of His _patience _to endure our dullness for decade after decade;
and to hold back His final judgment on this land and on the world, that many might
repent;

—the supremacy of His sovereign, servant _obedience _to keep His Father’s commandments
perfectly and then embrace the excruciating pain of the cross willingly;

—the supremacy of His _meekness _and lowliness and tenderness that will not break
a bruised reed or quench a smoldering wick;

—the supremacy of His _wrath _that will one day explode against this world with 
such fierceness that people will call out for the rocks and the mountains to crush
them rather than face the wrath of the Lamb;

—the supremacy of His _grace _that gives life to spiritually dead rebels and wakens
faith in hell-bound haters of God, and justifies the ungodly with His own righteousness;

—the supremacy of His _love _that willingly dies for us even while we were sinners
and frees us for the ever-increasing joy in making much of Him forever;

—the supremacy of His own inexhaustible _gladness _in the fellowship of the Trinity,
the infinite power and energy that gave rise to all the universe and will one day
be the inheritance of every struggling saint.”

–John Piper, “Sex and the Supremacy of Christ: Part Two,” in _[Sex and the Supremacy of Christ](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1581346972?tag=toletaupanre-20)_,
Eds. John Piper and Justin Taylor (Wheaton: Crossway, 2005), 38-40.

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## Comments

### By: Naveed Malik

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2011/06/14/the-supremacy-of-christ-by-john-piper/comment-page-1/#comment-6408
- Published: 2013-06-13T08:15:36-05:00

Great teaching. I have a great respect for John Piper. God bless you and keep on
doing gea work.

### By: praymillennials

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- Published: 2020-04-08T18:22:48-05:00

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