John Piper Prosperity Speech

This is very powerful and moving.
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I know that some of your computers won't show YouTupe videos. So here is the message in text.
This is what he said.

I don’t know what you feel about the prosperity gospel…
But I’ll tell you what I feel about it
Hatred
It is not the gospel
And it’ being exported from this country to Africa and Asia, selling bill of goods the poorest of the poor
"Believe this message, and your pigs won’t die and your wife won’t have miscarriages
And you’ll have rings on your fingers and coats on your backs"
That’s coming out of America!
People that ought to be giving our money and our time and our lives, instead selling them a bunch of crap called the “gospel”
And here’s the reason it is so horrible…
When was the last time that any American, African, Asian ever-said, Jesus is all satisfying because you drove, a BMW?
Never
They’ll say, “Did Jesus give you that?…Well Yeah I’ll take Jesus!”
That’s idolatry. That’s not the gospel.
That’s elevating gifts above Giver
I’ll tell you what makes Jesus look beautiful…
It’s when you smash your car and your little girl goes flying through the windshield and lands…
Dead on the street…
And you say, through the deepest possible pain,
“God is enough.”
“He is good; He will take care of us; He will satisfy us; He will get us through this.”
“He is our TREASURE.”
“Whom have I in heaven but you? And on earth there is nothing that I desire besides you.
And my flesh and my hear and my little girl may fail but you are the strength of my hear and my portion forever.”
That makes God look Glorious.
As God, not as giver of cars or of safety or health
O how I pray that Birmingham would be purged of the health, wealth, and prosperity gospel, indeed America would be purged
And that the Christian church…would be marked by SUFFERING for CHRIST
God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him in the midst of lost, not Prosperity.
For more sermons by John Piper visit http://www.desiringgod.org/

(Just so you know, the story about the little girl... is true)
-Lib&Jare