Salvation is not mainly about getting well from a disease. It's not mainly about prospering in your business. It's not mainly about a fixed-up marriage. It's not mainly about escaping hell. It's not mainly about reunion with mom in heaven. It's mainly about seeing, savoringoring and saying God is great.

What is our ultimate gain in salvation? That's the question John Piper answers in this episode of Light and Truth.

This message was originally given in Phoenix, Arizona at the Desiring God 2006 Regional Conference.

Let me pray.

Whom have we in heaven but you, O Lord, and on Earth there's nothing that we desire besides you.

Then in everything that we desire we would be desiring you.

He loves thee too little, who loves anything together with thee, which he loves not for

thy sake. That's a mystery Lord. How you can be everything to us in all the people we love, in all the recreation we love, in all the food we love, in all the art and music that we love in all the Bible that we love we don't have to be

idolaters. We dare not be idolaters. So would you work this miracle, Lord, of so permeating all of our

loves with a delight in you, an affection for you, and a thanks to you,

and a treasuring of you so that you have no competitors in our life. That's the mystery and the miracle that we are after in these days.

So I ask for it now. Make me an instrument to perform that miracle in people's hearts.

I pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

What I mean by God is the Gospel is that the highest, best, final, decisive good that comes to us in the good news and which all the other elements of the good news

are intended to lead to and without which all the other elements

of the good news would not be good news is the revelation of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ for your everlasting enjoyment.

Everything is means except God.

And so we're going to review and then move forward in our bullet points.

So I've got it down to 23. We moved from our wedding 38 almost years ago.

We moved through Oscar Kouman in a class in Germany. We moved through Oscar Kouman in a class in Germany.

We moved through signs and wonders, struggles, and wrestling in the 80s.

We moved through Stanford University and an illuminating moment there in the early 80s.

...