Well, we live in an age of hate.

One political party hates the other.

One nation hates another.

But the polarity of our national and international struggles of 2022 are nothing new, as you can

imagine.

There is old as sin.

40 years ago, Pastor John said in the sermon, quote,

the 1980s are quickly becoming the decade of hate, and oh, how easy it is for Christians

to be sucked into one group and start hating the other group, unquote.

That's the same today.

We're tempted to fall in line with the world and hate our human opponents, but oh, what

a very different calling God gives to his church.

And to understand God's countercultural calling for us today in 2022, we rewind 41 years

to hear a clip from a John Piper sermon who was preaching on 1st Timothy 2 versus 1

to 4.

It's one of my favorite sermons, especially when we face geopolitical chaos in the world.

It's an early sermon preached on January 20, 1981.

We heard another clip from the same sermon last Wednesday.

There I mentioned that this sermon was preached two days before the Iran hostage crisis

came to an end.

And the same day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as the new president of the United States.

So there was a lot of national and international news in the air when Piper preached on 1st

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