The following message is by pastor John Piper.

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Oh mighty God and Heavenly Father, I thank you so much that Christ has taken our sin and nailed it to the cross in his own body. I thank you that he has there put to public

shame all the principalities and powers of darkness and claimed a victory over them so that in their time they will be cast into the

lake of fire and now they can take no move beyond what he permits.

And so Father, I pray that you in the name of Jesus Christ would enclose, restrict, bind, and hinder all demonic powers in this room and in its building.

I pray that you would frustrate the designs of the devil to conceal the glory of Jesus

and the true way that leads to heaven.

I pray that you would open the hearts of people that never dreamed they would be open to the gospel of Jesus Christ crucified and risen today.

And I pray that Christ would be exalted and would stand in this room and in this building in such a way that those without him would fall back as on the night in

getseini when he said, I am he.

And the mob ready to crucify him fell back.

Nobody takes my life from me.

I lay it down of my own accord, and if I lay it down, I will take it again.

At that moment Jesus was in charge, and though Devil, you thought you had a victory, you had a victory.

And so Christ reigned now over these remaining minutes of this meeting,

and may all believers be praying, and may all those without Christ find themselves

drawn to a glorious salvation and an everlasting joy.

In Christ's name, I pray and everybody said, amen.

I would like to base my message this morning on Romans 1, 7 and 8.

If you have a Bible, you might want to open it.

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