The following message is by pastor John Piper.

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org. The sermon text for tonight's message is found in Romans chapter 13 verses 8 through 14.

That's page 948 in your Pew Bible, Romans 13, starting at 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 covet, and any other commandment are summed up in this word.

You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

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 wake up 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, in 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, we do not take for granted the pleasures of worshiping your son around his table. It has been very sweet.

And I pray that I would not undermine anything that you've been doing

powerfully as we have sung together and eaten at the Lord's table.

But rather let this word continue in the spirit to save sinners to strengthen saints to humble the proud to

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