After David Platt delivered his message “Divine Sovereignty: The Fuel for Death Defying Missions” at T4G 2012 I immediately knew it was a sermon I’d remember until I rest in the grave.

Ligon Duncan said that it was the best sermon on missions he has ever heard. John Piper tweeted, “This may have been the most powerful missions message I’ve ever heard. I needed to be quiet with God.”¹

The sermon was so singularly used by God in my life and ministry that I have since wondered when another such momentous event would occur.

Well it happened this last Thursday when Piper closed out T4G 2014 with a sermon entitled, “Persuading, Pleading and Predestination: Human Means in the Miracle of Conversion.”

When he stepped up to the pulpit the crowd was noticeably diminished. Those that had to leave early could not have known they would miss out on an exposition that left nary a dry eye in the building. When Mohler stepped up to close the conference he wept from the stage. I struggled to contain the torrent of tears that flowed from conviction and joy.

God used Piper in a powerful way.

WHAT I’LL REMEMBER

• I will never forget how the Mt. Everest of Romans 9 became rocket fuel for evangelism.
• I will never forget how the “somehow” of Romans 11:14 took on a whole new depth of meaning.
• I will never forget his exhortation to lovingly say “I want you” to sinners.
• I will never forget him singing “Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling.”
• I will never forget his statement, “I love precision.”
• I will never forget his channeling of Bill Piper asking, “Would you come? Would you come?”
• I will never forget the rhetorical questions, “Will you be those arms?”
• I will never forget singing “Softly and Tenderly” with thousands of brothers and sisters in response.

I will remember his sermon as being, up to this point in my life, the greatest embodiment of unction I’ve ever seen.

Do your life and ministry some good by listening or watching this God-besotted, Christ-exalting, and Spirit-powered “logic on fire.”