The following message is by pastor John Piper.

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Tonight's scripture reading is found in Romans chapter 13 verses 8 through 14.

If you'd like to follow along in your Pugh Bible, it can be found on page 948.

Romans chapter 13, starting in verse 8.

Oh no one anything except to love each other for the one who loves another has fulfilled

the law the commandments you shall not commit adultery you shall not murder you shall not steal you shall not not your

love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.

Besides this, you know the time that the hour has come for you to awake from sleep,

for salvation is nearer to us now. that the hour has come for you to awake from sleep.

For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

The night is far gone, the day is at hand.

So then, let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy, but put on the

Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh to gratify its desires.

Let's pray together.

Father, here we are gathered now in the evening and in the morning.

One church across eight or nine miles, one church across 15 hours.

And we are glad to be together.

Under the word of God, in worship to the living God,

in the name of Jesus, under the blood of Christ, clothed in the righteousness of Christ,

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