The following message is by pastor John Piper.

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The text for today's sermon is found in 1st John 3 versus 1 to 10. 1st John 3 versus 1 to 10. See what kind of love the Father has given to us that we should be called children of God, and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.

Beloved, we are God's children now and what we will be has not yet appeared, but we know that

when he appears we shall be like him because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes

in him purifies himself as he is pure. Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

You know that he appear to take away sins and in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him keeps on sinning.

No one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little children let no one deceive you.

Hoover practices righteousness is righteous as he is righteous. Whoever makes a practice of

sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning,

the reason the son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in Him,

and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.

By this it is evident who are the children of God

and who are the children of the devil.

Whoever does not practice righteousness

is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.

Let's pray together.

Father, I asked that now you would rescue people from despair and hopelessness because of the sin in their lives. And I pray that you would rescue people from coasting,

indifference, a kind of cavalier presumption about the sin in their lives,

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