The following message is by pastor John Piper.

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Jeremiah and God is the Gospel are the centers out of which this is flowing. So when you put those together and you go to

Jeremiah the verse that I landed on as a starting point and then I'm going to go

I'll just give that rest of the outline of the

message and and then we'll move I'm going to start with Jeremiah and a verse

about God is the gospel and then I'm going to go backwards in history to explain how did

this verse come about? How did God's relationship to Jews come about?

And how did humanity get into such a fix that he needed to have a relationship with Jews?

And where does humanity come from? that he needed to have a relationship with Jews.

And where does humanity come from anyway?

In other words, we're going to go all the way back to the very beginning.

And after we've done that and set up Jeremiah from the beginning,

we'll come back and then we'll look forward 500 years later to Jesus and what did he have to do with that and this whole thing. So what I want to happen tonight is to

orient what I say in the whole sweep of history, especially as the Bible records it at its center story, the history of

redemption. And we'll close by asking, so what did Jesus achieve when he died, when he rose again?

And how can I, as a man and you, get in on that or do I even want to?

Is it appealing what he accomplished when he came and died and rose again?

That's where we're going.

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