One Act of Righteousness
Light + Truth
Desiring God
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🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Most sin in the world |
| 0:08.7 | after the awakening of conscience |
| 0:11.9 | comes from despair |
| 0:14.4 | at ever being good enough. |
| 0:18.8 | And the gospel is Christ, Christ was good enough. And the gospel is Christ, Christ was good enough. Christ was good enough. And the issue of being |
| 0:30.2 | saved is to rest in him. Now that's good news. |
| 0:45.1 | So what did Christ do to rescue us from the despair of never being good enough? |
| 0:53.5 | That's the question John Piper answers from Romans 5, 12 to 21 in this episode of Light and Truth. |
| 0:59.6 | The sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on August 20th, 2000. |
| 1:06.9 | Versus 18 and 19. |
| 1:12.3 | So then, I think that means here's the summary. |
| 1:13.5 | Here's the summary. |
| 1:17.0 | As through one transgression. |
| 1:18.3 | Are you with me in verse 18? |
| 1:22.5 | As through one transgression, now that's Adam's sin. |
| 1:25.9 | There resulted condemnation to all. |
| 1:31.6 | Even so, in a similar way, here's the correspondence. |
| 1:36.2 | Through one act of righteousness, namely Christ's, |
| 1:39.6 | there resulted justification of life to all men. |
| 1:41.2 | We'll come back to who that all is, |
| 1:43.6 | and whether that means nobody goes to hell or not sounds kind of like it |
| 1:45.5 | but is that what it means verse 19 for as through the one man's disobedience that's adam again |
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