The following message is by pastor John Piper.

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Romans 13. or

Romans 13 versus 11 through 14. Besides this, you know the time that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep.

For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

The night is far gone.

The day is at hand. So then, let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality,

not in quarreling and jealousy, but put on the Lord Jesus Christ

and make no provision for the flesh to gratify its desires.

Father up north where they're listening to this prayer and message and here I am sure in both services there are women who wish they could have children and to this point have not been able to and if this is a view I just ask that you would come now and work

And grant to a husband, he may be the difficulty or the wife, she may have the problem.

And I pray that you would heal. And grant the heart's desire of some couples who have been so longing

for children this way and haven't been able to yet have them.

We come to you as a father who loves children.

You adopted us and you caused us to be born anew. And so we ask that

you'd come. Glorify yourself in this way, pray and help me now open this passage of

scripture faithfully in Jesus name. Amen. Well here we are making the

transition now between verses 8 to 10 where we spend 3 weeks

and verses 11 to 14 where we will spend Lord willing two weeks. The connection between 8 to 10 and 11 to 14 is not as clear in the words

besides this that begin verse 11 as I would like it to be.

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