There are thousands of years of redemptive history.

There's 2,000 years of preparatory Israel work.

There's an incarnation of the Son of God into the world,

all leading to a cross where blood pours out of the veins of the Son of God,

so that you can say your

sins are forgiven and that rests on a basis outside you and your subjective feelings

outside you and any of your performances there is a foundation for the forgiveness of sins that is of

infinite value.

Hi, I'm your host, Dan Kruver.

What is the foundation of our forgiveness?

In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper turns to Ephesians 1, verse 7,

to show why the blood of Christ, not our feelings or efforts,

secures redemption.

This teaching was originally delivered on a Wednesday night at Bethlehem Baptist Church on November 17, 1997.

I used to teach college, and I used to ask students, what's the basis of redemption and we'd be reading this and they'd say the

love of God I said yeah I know that but we're studying Ephesians one seven look at the text and I would

just insist they get their answers from the text and so many people

don't use the Bible that way it seems like the Bible is like a oh no like a you push a button

it goes bz and whatever it comes into your mind when it goes b, that's what you say the text means.

It's a strange thing.

So it may seem so obvious to you, but I'm going to do it anyway.

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