Limited Atonement

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🗓️ 15 March 2008

⏱️ 59 minutes

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John Piper | The doctrine of limited atonement teaches that God did more in the cross than obtain a bonafide offer of forgiveness for all who believe; namely, he also secured the saving faith of all the elect.

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0:00.0	The following message is by Pastor John Piper.
0:03.5	More information from Desiring God is available at
0:07.0	W. W.
0:10.0	D. Desiring God.
0:11.0	O. Before I pray, God dot O-R-G.
0:13.0	Before I pray, I want to pose a question now as we are moving into the section on the
0:20.5	atonement. And the question is what is all of this about? What's the
0:28.0	meaning of everything that we're talking about in this seminar on Tulip.
0:35.0	Why did God create the universe?
0:38.0	Why does he govern the universe the way he is governing it? What's the point of it all?
0:48.0	Is Jesus coming and dying and rising a means to that point or that point himself.
1:08.0	The answer to that question is not simple.
1:15.0	When human beings fell,
1:20.0	became rebellious, began opposing their Creator,
1:25.0	instead of worshiping their Creator,
1:30.0	they needed at that moment a Redeemer.
1:35.0	They needed a substitute.
1:37.0	They could never save themselves
1:40.0	and recover the possibility of worshiping God and enjoying Him forever, ever again.
1:47.5	They were doomed and there had to be a remedy for the fall and Jesus is that remedy. Jesus became a means to the end that a people could be saved and fulfill the ultimate end of
2:11.8	seeing and savoring and displaying the glory of God
2:17.2	which the universe was created to manifest.
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