Hope in Eternal Purity, Aim at Daily Purity

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🗓️ 4 November 2015

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The new birth changes our status before God and how we act in the world. We now fight for purity as adopted children of the Most High.

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0:00.0	How do we know if we have truly experienced the spiritual reality of new birth?
0:10.4	How do I know if God has acted on my life?
0:13.9	This is such a critical question in our lives, and John Piper addressed it in a 2007 Christmas
0:19.6	sermon of all places.
0:21.6	We pick up with John Piper citing 1 John, chapter 5, verse 12.
0:26.2	Whoever has the Son has life, whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
0:38.8	The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glorious of the only
0:43.7	Son from the Father, full of grace and truth, and from His fullness we have all received
0:50.8	grace upon grace.
0:52.7	That's where our life comes from.
0:55.0	The Son, the Word, made flesh is our life.
1:01.2	This is the testimony.
1:03.4	How do you know that your child will go?
1:05.6	How do I know that John Piper is alive?
1:08.0	It's my birth certificate.
1:10.1	Does anybody believe you're alive because you have on file a birth certificate?
1:16.6	You don't, it's because you breathe, it's exactly the same with Jesus Christ.
1:21.3	You know that your child of God because you breathe.
1:26.1	You're alive.
1:27.5	You see Him for who He is.
1:29.9	You love Him for who He is.
1:32.0	You trust Him for who He is.
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