Omnibus IV Secondary A Text Analysis

What does Piper say is the reason that there was joy in Gethsemane as Jesus was led away?

• Jesus knew he would rise again.

• Jesus knew God would send 12 legions of angels to save him

• Jesus had joy because he knew his action of obedience was pleasing to the Father.

• Jesus had no joy

What does Piper say happens when you aim to abandon the pursuit of full and lasting pleasure?

• You won't be able to fully abandon the pursuit of full and lasting pleasure

• You cannot love people or please God.

• You will receive peace that surpasses all understanding

• You will live a sad and gloomy life 

When does Piper say that our happiness found in God reaches its consummation?

• When it is shared with others in the manifold ways of love.

• When we die

• When we get married

• It never reaches its consummation

What does Piper say is the foundation of God’s happiness?

• Piper says the foundation of God's happiness is the sovereignty of God. 

• Piper says the foundation of God's happiness is in you!

• Piper says the foundation of God's happiness is in a new believer.

• Can God happy? I don't know!

According to the text, does God need us, or other things to make him happy?

• Yes, God does need us to make him happy! When we glorify him we make him happy!

• No, God does not need us to make him happy! 

• Yes, God does need us to make him happy! When we praise him we make him happy!

• Yes, God does need us to make him happy. If he didn't, why would he need us in the beginning?

Answer explanation

God’s happiness is in himself. He does not need humans to make him happy, he's all powerful, he can make himself happy with just a snap of his fingers.

Piper uses the words “God delights” in 3 sections. In what 3 things does God delight?

• God delights in us, in our praise of him, in our glorifying of him, in our obeying of his word.

• God delights in his glory, God delights in the glory of his son, and God delights in the glory of his work.

• God delights in me, me and ME.

Piper claims that glorifying God in worship is horizontal Christian Hedonism.

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Answer explanation

This is the definition for vertical hedonism, not horizontal! Pg 111

What does Piper say we should love (other than God)? (HINT: It's an attribute)

• faithfulness

• loyalty

• joy

• kindness

• happiness

What does Piper say that if you do it you cannot love people or love God?

• Aim to abandon the pursuit of kindness.

• Aim to abandon the pursuit of full and lasting pleasure

What does love cost? Pg 129

• Love often costs suffering however it is insisted that the gain vastly outweighs the pain. 

• Love often costs money?

• Love often costs time?

• Love costs...well, itself!