The following message is by pastor John Piper.

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I invite you to take your Bibles if you brought one and turn to Romans 13

verse 11 and if you didn't bring one just listen carefully and I'll try to say it enough time so that

you'll be able to follow along.

Two weeks ago we were on this text and we've spent the first message on

verses 11 and the first part of verse 12 on the nature of the time and now we'll finish

it Lord willing, today. So Romans 13 verses 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 and sensuality, not in quarrelling and jealousy.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh to gratify its desires.

Let's pray.

Father, we love the sunshine. We know that too much of a good thing can burn a bald head or make

a person go dizzy. And so, Lord, I pray that you would protect your people. Make this a glad day. May the word of

God arrive with power here as you are screaming your glory from the heavens. The heavens are telling the glory and

I pray that the the word of God the two books of God would be open this morning.

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