You get in an accident or you get told by the doctor, you got something really wrong.

Your first thought is, what I do wrong?

Why are you against me?

And to be told with the authority of the living Christ, he is not against you in this.

That changes everything about the cancer or the arthritis.

There's a particular kind of fear that comes when life unravels.

And it's not just fear of the circumstance, but fear that maybe God is

settling accounts, that this is some form of payback. And John Piper says that cannot be true for

those in Christ. I'm your host, Dan Krover. In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper

presses Romans 8 into our deepest anxieties and declares that God is decisively for us.

This message was originally delivered at the Cove in Asheville, North Carolina, on July 9th, 2003.

I'd like to pray just one more time before we begin. It's so true, Father, it's been mercy all the way, and it will be mercy all the way home.

And then when we get there, it will be mercy forever.

We will never be able to present you with a lifetime of perfection.

For from the beginning we have been imperfect and when

we are finally perfected we will be still that part perfect and the former part

imperfect and ever dependent on your perfection in mercy.

And so we praise you for mercy.

I beseech you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God

to present your bodies a living sacrifice.

So Lord, surely mercy is a great way to summarize the first 11 chapters of the book of Romans.

Make us feel mercied.

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