Love That Leads to Fear

Light + Truth

Desiring God

Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

How does God prevent your separation from Christ’s love? In this episode of Light + Truth, that’s the question John Piper answers from Romans 1:6–7.

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0:00.0	Now listen Christian, you got to know this love, you got to know this love, this is precious
0:06.4	beyond words.
0:08.0	What is it that will keep you from being separated from the love of Christ?
0:12.6	Answer the love of God.
0:17.4	That's the glorious reality that John Piper rejoices over from Romans 1, 6 and 7 in this
0:24.4	episode of Light and Truth.
0:28.1	This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on May 24, 1998.
0:39.3	This is covenant love.
0:41.8	I chose Noel to be my wife.
0:48.0	And I made a covenant with her on December 21, 1968.
0:54.8	And I sealed that covenant with a vow, sacred and holy before God Almighty, and by grace
1:02.5	I will never break that covenant.
1:05.7	And God sealed that covenant in heaven.
1:08.3	What God has joined together, what God has joined together, let no man put a sunder and
1:15.1	she is mine and I am hers.
1:18.8	And the love that I have for her henceforth is absolutely unique, even though there are
1:28.0	many other people I would die for.
1:38.0	This is covenant love, this is married love, this is vowed love, this is I am yours and
1:45.6	you are mine love and this is not the general love that made the sun come up this morning
1:54.8	on a wicked city.
1:56.2	It's more.
1:58.2	I said I want to enlarge your love, that is your grasp of the love of God.
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