The following message is by pastor John Piper.

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If you didn't have the Bible with you, which most of you don't, probably you might reach one under the pew there. I think you'll want to look at this and if not just listen carefully.

I'm going to look at two passages of scripture with you.

The first is 2 Corinthians Chapter 7.

Is that page 967 in your Bible?

I just checked it and forgot it.

This one just sets the stage for the second one. For the second one.

Verse 10, for Godly grief, this is 2 Corinthians 7, verse

10, Godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret,

whereas worldly grief produces death.

So what I want to do is just highlight the fact that at the end of the year, everybody has regrets.

We have

regrets.

some of it, and we have regrets. Some are big and some are small.

We're sinners. We don't like sinning, therefore we regret sinning, therefore everybody has regrets.

And notice there are two kinds of regret. There's the killing kind and there's the saving kind. So let's read it in.

Godly grief, regret, sorrow over things that we've done,

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