The following message is by pastor John Piper.

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Father in him we have much bigger things to think about than whether our voice is good enough or anything of that small nature.

I want to think about you.

We want to think about the terrible condition that we're in as

fallen and depraved human beings in

rebellion against our maker with hearts that by nature are not inclined to you, which even as regenerate people grieves us deeply,

when the remaining corruption tends to creep up and contaminate the good work that you're doing in our lives.

We are sorry.

So we begin on a note of contrition, the sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit, broken and

contrite heart, oh God you will not despise and so we come broken contrite needy realizing that we are

desperately dependent on you for grace.

Grace to understand these things,

grace to experience these things,

grace to teach and live out these things, grace to make you look great in these things.

Grace to make you look great in these things.

And so on you we lean for all of that are spiritually in

now come to be our our teacher

give us hearts that are spiritually in harmony with the truth of text that we will look at so that when we look at them, there doesn't rise up resistance in our hearts, but rather a co cohearing deep down in our hearts with what is really

there in the text. And so shape us by those texts we pray.

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