The following message is by pastor John Piper. More information from desiring God is available at

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D. D. desiring God. O.R-G.

Thank you very much, Rick, and thank you all for your encouragement.

And what I want to do before I pray is to finish last night's message.

Because I realized it just struck me that I told you there were five elements in the gospel and I got lost in number four and I all I talked

about was number five but I never called it number five so here's here's the

review and and the completion.

If you just focus on the gospel at its center, what happened in and around the cross and the resurrection.

There are these five elements.

Number one, an event, Christ died.

No event, no gospel. And he rose. Number two, there's the achievement of the event, that is,

wrath was absorbed, sin was covered, righteousness was consummated, eternal life was purchased,

those things happen objectively outside of you, an achievement of the cross. And the third is the free offer.

If there's no event, no gospel. If there's no achievement in the event, no gospel.

If it's offered on the basis of works rather than

faith, no gospel. So the offer matters and is essential to the gospel being the

gospel. And the fourth was the application.

You do not benefit out from the event or the achievement or the offer unless you receive the offer and are united

to Christ.

When you're united to Christ, that wrath, absorption becomes yours and that covering of sin becomes yours and that righteousness

performed becomes yours and that eternal life purchase becomes yours and until that happens all that objectivity

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