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Faith Alone: How (Not) to Use a Reformed Slogan

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

Christianity, Messages, Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Preaching, Desiring God, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, John Piper

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

No truth was more central to the Reformation that turned the world upside down 500 years ago: God justifies sinners by faith alone.

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The following resource is from desiring God.org.

0:04.0

Let's pray.

0:07.0

Lord grant us rest in you right now and all the energy we need to listen and speak

0:20.9

and may the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight,

0:27.0

oh God, my rock and my redeemer.

0:32.0

I ask this in Jesus name, Amen.

0:38.0

The greatest problem facing the world

0:50.0

is that the creator of the universe has sentenced every human being to everlasting condemnation,

1:00.9

because all of us have committed treason against him by giving the greatest affections we have for other things and not to him.

1:06.9

We have exchanged the pleasures of our Creator

1:09.2

for the pleasures of creation.

1:19.2

There is none righteous, no not one, anywhere in the world. The natural human mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God, indeed it cannot,

1:31.0

and those who have this treasonous state of mind cannot please God.

1:36.4

We are all rebellious and ruined.

1:42.0

Therefore, ruined.

1:48.0

Therefore, all mankind are by nature children of wrath.

1:58.0

The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness because we all suppress the truth. The whole creation is subjected to futility because of our sin.

2:03.1

It groans in the bondage to corruption.

2:06.5

The book of nature, the human conscience,

2:11.5

the law of God all testified to this so that we know every mouth is stopped and the

2:19.2

whole world is held accountable to God.

2:30.8

Therefore, a great and final day of wrath is coming upon the earth. The Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire

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