The Michael Berry Show I want you to join me on the front pew

For a sermon that is going to challenge perspectives and ignite hearts with the

transformative power of the message of Christ.

I'm talking about a renowned preacher by the name of John Piper and his message about how Jesus defeated our greatest enemy from the inside.

So picture this, a battle of cosmic proportions raging not on distant battlefields but within the very depths of our souls, a tempest in a teapot of our own individual souls, a battle against sin, darkness, you know your demons, against all that seeks to separate us from the love of God.

And in this struggle stands Christ, our Savior, our Redeemer, our ultimate champion.

In this sermon, as you're going to hear, John Piper takes us on a journey

into the heart of this,

I mean it really is spiritual warfare, revealing that Christ doesn't just defeat

sin and death from the outside but from within, not just foreign enemies but domestic, literally.

The depths of human brokenness, I was going to say brokenness, but brokenness is what he penetrated.

Our struggling, our suffering, our temptations, and the ultimate victory.

It's a beautiful message. Jesus, you think about it, didn't just come to

earth as some distant observer passing judgment from afar. He walked among us, felt what we feel, experienced our pain. He was

made man. It was made of the flesh, just us our sorrows our humanity our pain or suffering and in

that he conquered the very forces that sought to destroy us.

Pastor John Piper unpacks what I consider to be a profound truth and he does it with with what was just clarity, conviction and he talks about

how this is not just a one-time event, but an ongoing continual consistent reality and it is

available to us today. Through his death and resurrection Jesus broke the power of sin and death once and for

all offering us the hope, the prayer, the opportunity of new life and freedom in him.

Here we go.

In the beginning it was the word, and the word it was the word and the word was with God and the word was God.

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