You were bought and you belonged to another.

You were called by another.

You were set apart by another.

Who is this other?

God in Christ.

How should viewing ourselves in relation to God in Christ affect our lives?

John Piper answers this question in Romans 1-1 in this episode of Light and Truth.

The sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on April 26, 1998.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet, said,

I think that the epistle to the Romans is the most profound work in existence.

John Knox, not the Scott, but the New Testament scholar, said, Romans is unquestionably the most

important theological work ever written.

So here's the question this morning.

How did that happen?

How did a former Pharisee

who hated Christianity with all his might, breathed out murders against it,

according to Romans 9-1, participated in killing the first Christian martyr,

persecuted the church violently.

How did that man come to write a 7,100 word letter?

About 22 pages long in my Bible that has changed the face of the world.

That every Christian leader for 2000 years has lit his smoldering wick in this flame

for all these centuries.

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