Whoever has the Son has life, and whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life,

as 1 John 5, 12.

But what exactly does it mean to have the Son of God?

How do we come into possession of Jesus?

And if we don't possess Him, we remain dead in our trespasses and sins.

So this is one of the most important questions in the universe.

The answer was expounded by John Piper in a 1985 sermon.

The following sermon clip is also a rare example of Pastor John drawing out metaphors

from a contemporary movie titled A Passage to India, which was released in 1984.

It's a widely celebrated film nominated for 11 Academy Awards.

So again, what does it mean to have the Son of God?

Pastor John in 1985.

In the film, Passage to India, there was a doctor, an Indian doctor, that is, Dr. who lives

in India.

He was arrested by the British colonial powers thrown in jail under the alleged claim

that he had assaulted a British woman.

The case becomes an extraordinarily tense point of conflict between the people of India

who want to be free from the British rule and the British colonial powers who were ruling

very insensitively over the Indian people.

And the whole colonialist power structure seemed to make the doctor's case utterly hopeless.

In jail, no advocate, no money, and they were going to get his flesh.

However, the most famous and able lawyer in India gets word of this.

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