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Only a New Creation Counts

Aug 28, 1983
The mindset of the new creation does not just agree that Christ died for sinners; it glories in the cross.
John Piper
Aug 28, 1983
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Do Not Grow Weary in Well-Doing

Aug 21, 1983
When you get your paycheck, do you look to the Spirit for how to use this money for God's kingdom?
John Piper
Aug 21, 1983
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The Law of Christ

Bearing Each Other's Burdens

Aug 14, 1983
If we really care about a person's ultimate welfare, we will confront them with their sin as well as comfort them in their trouble.
John Piper
Aug 14, 1983
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Walk by the Spirit!

Aug 7, 1983
People who bear the fruit of the Spirit know they are worthy only of condemnation. They know that the only pay they can earn is the wrath of God.
John Piper
Aug 7, 1983
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The War Within: Flesh Versus Spirit

The War Within

Flesh Versus Spirit

Jun 19, 1983
A Christian is not a person who experiences zero bad desires. A Christian is a person who is at war with every distorted desire by the power of the Spirit.
John Piper
Jun 19, 1983
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Freed to Love

Jun 12, 1983
Freedom flows forth in love just as surely as a bubbling spring flows forth in a mountain stream.
John Piper
Jun 12, 1983
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Saving Faith Produces Love

Jun 5, 1983
Being a loving person is absolutely essential to being saved, because the faith which saves by its very essence works through love.
John Piper
Jun 5, 1983
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For Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free

May 29, 1983
Your enjoyment of freedom is much more important to God than many of the day-to-day decisions that fill us with so much concern.
John Piper
May 29, 1983
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Hagar and Slavery Vs. Sarah and Freedom

May 22, 1983
For Paul, the experience of freedom is not icing on the cake of Christianity. Freedom in Christ is Christianity.
John Piper
May 22, 1983
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O, That Christ Would Be Formed in You!

May 15, 1983
We are freed from the burden of the law when we are given the power to fulfill it from within. And that happens when Christ is formed in us.
John Piper
May 15, 1983
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Don't Go Back from Sonship to Slavery

May 8, 1983
If Satan can't get you to disobey God's commands, then he'll try to make you obey them with the wrong spirit.
John Piper
May 8, 1983
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If You Are Christ's, You Are Heirs of the Promise

May 1, 1983
When you entrust yourself to Christ you honor him, and he would be denying himself to turn you away.
John Piper
May 1, 1983
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Why Then the Law?

Apr 24, 1983
If we don't understand why the law was given, we can kill ourselves with it.
John Piper
Apr 24, 1983
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The Law Does Not Annul the Promise

Apr 17, 1983
It would be terribly wrong to say that the Mosaic law was opposed in its teaching to the Abrahamic covenant.
John Piper
Apr 17, 1983
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Christ Redeemed Us from the Curse of the Law

Apr 10, 1983
When Christ experienced the curse of the law on the cross it was not his own but ours.
John Piper
Apr 10, 1983
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Those Who Have Faith Are the Sons of Abraham

Mar 20, 1983
The central concern of your life is to ensure that you are a child of Abraham.
John Piper
Mar 20, 1983
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Can You Begin by the Spirit and Be Completed by the Flesh?

Mar 13, 1983
The essential mark of a Christian is not how far you have progressed in sanctification, but on what you are relying to get there.
John Piper
Mar 13, 1983
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I Do Not Nullify the Grace of God

Mar 6, 1983
The transgression against God is to presume that you can climb your way up a ladder of morality into his favor.
John Piper
Mar 6, 1983
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In Sync with the Gospel

Feb 27, 1983
When you finally hear and believe the drumbeat of the gospel, the rhythm of your step changes. There is a life in step with the gospel, and there is a life out of step with the gospel.
John Piper
Feb 27, 1983
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That the Truth of the Gospel Be Preserved for You

Feb 20, 1983
Very few people today stand up and praise the unity and coherence of truth.
John Piper
Feb 20, 1983
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This Is Not Man's Gospel

Feb 13, 1983
To try to explain the change from Paul's pre-conversion persecution to his post-conversion passion for the gospel merely by the work of men is to grasp at a straw.
John Piper
Feb 13, 1983
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When Not to Believe an Angel

When Not to Believe an Angel

Feb 6, 1983
There is one, and only one, gospel. It is therefore astonishing — and tragic — to turn away from it and lose both God and his grace.
John Piper
Feb 6, 1983
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To Deliver Us from the Present Evil Age

Jan 23, 1983
The freest people in the world are those who submit most fully to the authority of Christ in Scripture.
John Piper
Jan 23, 1983
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