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Welcome to the Gospel Coalition Podcast, equipping the next generation of believers,

pastors and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

On today's episode you'll hear a keynote message from John Piper, originally given at TGC's 2023 conference.

Four hundred years before the events of the Book of Exodus, God said to Abram,

no for certain, this is Genesis 15, know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, slaves actually.

They will be afflicted for 400 years,

but I will bring judgment on that nation that they serve.

And afterward, they shall come out with great possessions.

To your offspring, I give this

Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates,

to which this cricket responds to that lion,

you're God.

You're gonna give him the land.

Give him the land now.

Not after 400 years of affliction.

To which the lion, God,

who has 10,000 reasons for doing everything he does of which this cricket knows 0.001 percent. 0 1%.

This, they will come back here in the fourth generation because cricket, the

the iniquity of the Ammerites is not yet complete.

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