Exodus 3:13–15
God is. Or to say it the way our text says it, God is who he is. Or to say it more philosophically, God absolutely is. This is the most basic fact and the most ultimate fact. Period. Of the billions of facts that there are, this one is at the bottom and at the top. It is the foundation of all others and the consummation of all others. Nothing is more basic and nothing is more ultimate than the fact that God is.
Nothing is more foundational to this church than that God is. Nothing is more foundational to your life or your marriage or your job or your health or your mind or your future than that God is. Nothing is more foundational to the world, or the solar system, or the Milky Way or the universe than that God is. And nothing is more foundational to the Bible and the self-revelation of God and the glory of the gospel of Jesus than that God is.
John Piper (geb. 1946) predigt seit 1980 als Pastor der Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis. Durch seine Predigten und Bücher hat er viele Menschen inspiriert, in allen Lebensbereichen ein Anliegen für Gottes alles überragende Herrlichkeit zu entwickeln. John und seine Frau Noël haben vier erwachsene Söhne und eine Tochter im Schulalter.