Sinning Less, Loving More
Light + Truth
Desiring God
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🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you are justified by faith, you are inhabited by the spirit of Christ. |
| 0:12.3 | You are not neutral. |
| 0:13.9 | He's not neutral. |
| 0:15.3 | He's not passive. |
| 0:17.0 | He is at work in you to create a newness of mind and a newness of heart that loves and serves |
| 0:24.0 | and is not lawless. |
| 0:27.7 | Have you ever wondered what it is about Christianity that ensures our growth in Christ-likeness? |
| 0:35.8 | I'm Dan Kroover. |
| 0:37.1 | In this episode of Light and Truth, |
| 0:39.3 | John Piper ventures into the middle of Paul's letter |
| 0:43.3 | to the Romans to answer that very question. |
| 0:47.3 | This message was originally delivered |
| 0:49.3 | at Bethlehem Baptist Church on January 28, 2001. |
| 1:01.7 | What's he doing here in these first six verses of chapter 7? |
| 1:15.1 | Answer, he's still explaining verse 15, 14 and 15 of chapter 6. |
| 1:23.7 | He is still answering, shall we sin because we're not under law but under grace? |
| 1:26.1 | See, here's the perplexing thing. |
| 1:35.2 | He said, sin will have no dominion over you because you're under grace, not under law. |
| 1:42.1 | And then in his explanation from verses 16 to 23, he never mentions law. |
| 1:44.5 | Not once. |
| 1:47.7 | So you're kind of sketching your head by the end of chapter 6. Well, now wait a minute. |
| 1:49.8 | The problem was, the problem |
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