The following message is by pastor John Piper. More information from desiring God is available at

W. W. W. Desiring God. O.G. Lord, we really are thankful

that wretched creation-prefering hearts were not despised

were not despised by the Redeemer.

And that he bore our sins in his body on the tree,

that he might bring us home to you and that you've given us a quickening to begin to love

you as we ought and begin to treasure you as we ought and begin to see you and hear you and

embrace you and value you and be satisfied in you and follow you as we ought.

And we confess our abiding shortfall and our remaining corruption and

indwelling sin.

We hate it, and we renounce it together, and we ask for more help.

We want to come through this conference more loving toward Christ and more loving toward people.

We don't want to waste our lives in front of the mirror or in the manpoolles of the world.

We want to dive into your inexhaustible glory and grace manifest in Jesus.

So come and do a great deep decisive work

for the glory of your son.

In his name we pray, Amen.

What does it look like the unwasted life?

If the gospel is the solution to conquer my objective damnable position under a just

wrath and holy God by rescuing me so that it can be said

there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus and he has begun in sovereign grace and sanctification to transform this old

blind, dead, man-loving, God-belittling heart into a God-loving man-humbling, Christ-cherishing heart,

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