Without a strong theology of grace in your life, covering your sin, overlooking your imperfections,

canceling out your hidden faults and guarding you from presumptuous sin, you'll be so burdened down and so enslaved

that worship will be a foreign word to you.

If you've ever walked into a church

weighed down by guilt,

trying to muster up enough sincerity to worship,

I get it.

I'm Dan Kroover.

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper explains why

worship never flourishes until grace goes deep. This seminar was originally delivered at Bethlehem

Baptist Church on Wednesday evening, September 19, 1990.

We're going to talk tonight about the heart and the head in worship.

And just sit back and listen to this text that God inspired for you, because I'm just assuming that virtually everybody in this room is a believer and can just absorb and enjoy what I'm

about to say to you.

While we were weak, at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly.

One will hardly die for a righteous man, and yet perchance for a good man, one might even dare to die.

But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Therefore, since we are justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were yet enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more shall we be saved

by his life. And not only that, but we rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom

we have received the reconciliation. I commend it to you for your memory.

It is just a rock. He died for the ungodly. He died for us while we were still enemies.

I mean, there is so much liberty of soul, soul liberty to be had

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