So what's the call? It's not what's coming out of my mouth. It's the work of God through what's coming out of my mouth to create faith. That's the call. The sovereign call of God, let there be light. Second Corinthians 4-4, the light of God has shown into our hearts to give us the knowledge of the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

Just as God said, let there be light, he now says let there be faith.

Have you ever wondered why some people hear the gospel and believe while others don't?

John Piper gives a clear and humbling answer here.

I'm Dan Kruver.

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper points to 2 Corinthians 4 to show that faith begins with the voice of God saying,

Let there be faith.

His session was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on Wednesday evening, February 12, 1992.

And while the audio is rough in spots,

we're including this episode,

because we know that it will encourage you.

To start with, I want to read a few, maybe two quotes

from this little book on the puritan golden treasury and then pray with you

that god would be our teacher tonight and build us up in the faith and make us strong and

humble and hopeful this is a quote from Thomas Adams paradise had four rivers that

watered the earth and however neglected by many they make glad the city of

God so spoke Bernard sweetly eternal life is granted to us in election, promised in our vocation,

sealed in our justification, possessed in our glorification. Conclude then faithfully to your own soul,

I believe, and therefore I am justified.

I am justified, and therefore I am sanctified.

I am sanctified, and therefore I am called.

I am called, and therefore I am elected. I am elected, and therefore I am called. I am called and therefore I am elected. I am elected and therefore I shall be saved.

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