I hope all you believers are asking the question, okay, I want to know myself here.

I want to know what happened to me.

When I was six, I don't even remember it, right?

Or 14, or 24, 60, I want to know what happened to me. I have a teeny little

idea of how I got saved. I've been given categories and half of them are wrong. I just want

to know what God did for me. Hi, I'm your host, Dan Kruver.

What really happened when you believed?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper opens John 6, verses 41 to 51, to show that

coming to Christ was not your doing, but God's decisive grace from start to finish.

This message was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on December 6th, 2009.

There are two kinds of teaching, Father, the one that I can do with my mouth and the one that I can do with my heart and the one that you can do.

And that's the one we're desperate for.

I ask you, Father, to come and grant that you would teach through me.

Because if you don't become our teacher, nobody will be drawn to Christ.

No Christian will be drawn closer to Christ and no unbeliever will be drawn to Christ

if they only hear my teaching.

So come, we ask in Jesus' name. Amen.

Whenever we begin to focus on the particular work of God, overcome the rebellion of particular people and draw particular

people to the sun, we desperately need to keep in view.

We must never, ever forget God's global purposes, God's universal offer to save anyone who believes.

For example, John 219, behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

John 316, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in him

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