Who are you counting on to rescue you from the wrath of God because your conscience tells you you have not lived up to his law and you

are under judgment.

You don't need the Bible to tell you that, though it does. Who are you counting on to rescue you from

the wrath of God? The answer of the New Testament is that there is one person who can

rescue us from the wrath of God and only one

God. Only God can rescue us from the wrath of God.

How do we become more confident in God's grace and love?

In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper turns to Romans 5, 9 to 11, to strengthen our confidence that God is for us.

This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on December 12, 1999.

Lord, we could just pack it up and go home.

Right now, there's been so much wonderful truth sung to us and bias.

But you have one more word to say to us from these two verses that we're going to talk about here and my

hearts cry is that you would say it with heart opening power like you did to

Lazarus. Lazz Lazarus, come forth,

and the dead man obeyed.

Lord, speak like that this morning I pray to all of us for while some are

spiritually dead others are dead-like and sleeping in their Christian walk. Waken us. Show us yourself. Make yourself loved

like we've never loved you before and obeyed and glorified.

In Jesus, name I pray, Amen.

Our focus is on just two verses now this morning,

verses 9 and 10 in Romans 5. The main point of the passage I'll tell you in advance is in

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