Do you believe as you sit there that you are an air of the world? And what do you mean and what difference will it make this afternoon if you are an air of the world.

What does it mean for Christians to be heirs of the world?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper turns to Romans 4, 13 to 15, to explore one of scriptures most

astounding promises.

The sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on September 12, 1999.

Father, I ask for your help to bring this message concerning our airship of the world because I need

you and we need you.

And because this truth is too good to believe on our own,

we don't have the strength to believe it.

It will fly so far over us that will not be caught up into it if you don't catch us up into it.

And it will leave us stuck where we are if you don't link it to our souls and carry us

aloft with it. It is lofty, it is great, it is unspeakably beyond words, so I feel very inadequate to make it plain.

And yet you are adequate.

You are my adequacy now.

And I trust in you for myself and for these friends come and do this great work and make this truth known and loved and may it make us mighty in the spirit.

When hearts, I pray, and minds for yourself, I I pray in Christ's name. Amen.

I'm going to assume as a foundation in today's message.

Paul's teaching that Gentiles, most of us in this room

would be in that category, that Gentiles,

who trust in Messiah Jesus, you know the word Christ is Christos in Greek and Christos is

Greek for Machia and Machia is Messiah and therefore every time you say the word Christ you mean Jewish Messiah.

All Gentiles who trust in Messiah Jesus, are true Jews. They become heirs of the promise of Abraham and true circumcision.

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