Welcome back on Monday. We looked at whether or not life has morally neutral areas,

those gray areas, areas in life where we make decisions that are not necessarily sinful or

holy. And in that first episode of the week, ABJ 1846, Pastor John defines sin for us. He defines

sin with Romans 3 23 saying, quote, sin is first the disposition of the human heart to prefer human

glory, especially self-glory over God's glory. We exchange God's glory for something we prefer

more. We sin by exchanging the glory of God with another glory. That's verse 23. Then verse 24

gives the solution to the sin that we must be, quote, justified by his grace as a gift through the

redemption that is in Christ Jesus. In quote, that's Romans 3 24. This pair of glorious verses,

Romans 3 23, Romans 3 24, one verse defining sin, the other defining God's response to that sin,

holds the key to how we become unshakable people in this world. Those verses are according to

Pastor John more important than 10,000 books written by man to help you solve your problems.

So much so. Pastor John says, if you build your life on these two verses, make them the foundation

of your life. You will be strong and stable in a hundred crises of life. That's the bull

testimony of John Piper who makes those very claims in today's sermon clip, a clip from a 1999

sermon. Here's Pastor John to explain. Verse 23 describes the universal need of every human being

and verse 24 gives the all-sufficient remedy for that need. These two verses are more important

than 10,000 books written by man about how to solve your problems and make your future better.

These are the words of God through the Apostle Paul and they tell us about our true condition

and they tell us about what God has done to remedy that condition. If you will build your life

on these two verses, if you make them the foundation of your life, you will be strong and stable

in a hundred crises. If you will put these verses and the truth of them at the center of your life

like the sun at the center of the planets of the solar system of your life, then this truth will

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