The following message is by pastor John Piper.

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Since this is my last time with you, I wanted to thank you for being such a remarkable and receptive group. Thank you so much for your attention and for your support

these have been trying days because of the rain and

God is making a memory for you. You will look back and call this time names.

Wet or mud or.

I have the muddiest feet I've ever had at any conference and so I took a picture of my feet last night.

I got my camera out and I took a picture like this of my feet and I think I'll put it up on the website and call it beautiful feet.

And I wish I'd had the courage to take the picture of the barefooted fellows last night that I saw.

But I maybe I'll do that later.

Because then the feet would really be beautiful. I really do mean that.

There are some amazing stories of those who with bloodied feet went to villages

over many miles and because of their bloodied feet were

received as holy men and the gospel was able to be heard and so the Lord with these kinds of trials does prepare us, test us. He just tests us.

It says in Philippians, do all things without grumbling.

Well, well, that's quite a challenge.

Thank you so much for being here.

You are in a very important work. perhaps I'll save more on that and just close with that in a few

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