The Battle Is Real
Light + Truth
Desiring God
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The spirit often gives me victory. |
| 0:07.8 | The spirit is giving me increased victory. |
| 0:10.1 | The spirit will one day give me final victory. |
| 0:13.5 | And in that sense, the enemy has been defeated. |
| 0:17.5 | Its back is broken. |
| 0:18.9 | Its head is severed. |
| 0:25.6 | It's bleeding to death on the ground, and we fight it as a defeated foe. But that bleeding dead, decisively defeated enemy can do a lot of harm if we don't fight. |
| 0:38.3 | Does the Christian life promise freedom from sin's reach, or is the battle ongoing? |
| 0:47.3 | In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper unpacks Romans 7, 14 to 25, showing how believers fight sins persistence with confidence |
| 0:59.2 | in the victory secured by Christ. This sermon was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church |
| 1:06.5 | on August 19th, 2001. |
| 1:14.3 | Can a Christian? |
| 1:16.6 | Should a Christian say, |
| 1:20.3 | wretched man that I am, |
| 1:25.0 | who will deliver me from this body of death? |
| 1:27.0 | Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ, |
| 1:28.1 | I'm going to be delivered. |
| 1:31.1 | Yes, a Christian should say that. |
| 1:33.6 | That's argument number eight. |
| 1:34.9 | Here's number nine. |
| 1:39.2 | It's another response to a counterargument. |
| 1:43.5 | I think this is one of the stronger ones on the other side. |
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