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Welcome to the Gospel Coalition Podcast, equipping the next generation of believers,

pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

Today, we bring you a message from John Piper on the Essential Achievement of Christ.

This message was originally delivered at TGC's 2021 National Conference.

Let's pray together. Father, we bow our heads together now to declare that we depend upon you

we need your help and we look away from ourselves to Christ who loved us and gave himself

for us and secured for us the fulfillment of all your promises to us and therefore we have

confidence that you won't leave us to ourselves here. You will fill us with everything we need.

You'll help us to be faithful to your Word and you'll give us the capacity to see Christ

in His greatness and to speak the truth. So come strengthen these folks with faith, with hope,

with joy, with holiness, with courage to live a life that magnifies Jesus.

I ask this in His name. Amen.

In a day when people are co-opting the message of Christ for political ideologies

and sometimes twisting it beyond recognition into a kind of rope that holds up the banner of our

social causes, I am very jealous that every pastor who believes the Bible, every person in their

churches would foreground the achievement of Christ without which all the other achievements fail.

Something that is so central and so foundational and so essential to the work of Christ that if

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