The Certainty of Our Salvation

Light + Truth

Desiring God

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

What makes our salvation both great and certain? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper explores Hebrews 2:3–4 to show how God confirms the truth of salvation through unimpeachable witnesses.

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0:00.0	Don't neglect your great salvation.
0:10.0	Don't neglect being loved by God.
0:15.3	Don't neglect being forgiven.
0:19.0	Don't neglect being accepted. Don't neglect being accepted.
0:22.6	Don't neglect being strengthened by God.
0:27.1	Don't neglect being helped and guided by God.
0:32.5	Don't neglect the love of the cross where your sins were nailed there forever. Don't neglect a free gift of
0:40.4	righteousness that comes to you by faith so that you can clothe yourselves with it and walk right
0:45.9	into the presence of a holy God and meet a smile rather than a frown of wrath.
0:53.8	What makes our salvation both great and certain?
0:59.8	In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper explores Hebrews 2, 3, and 4
1:06.1	to show how God confirms the truth of salvation through unimpeachable witnesses.
1:13.6	This sermon was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on May 5, 1996.
1:21.6	The first night I spoke at Bethlehem Baptist Church, July, 1980, my first evening message was entitled,
1:39.1	Life is not trivial.
1:45.0	This is your life.
1:46.4	I took a text from Deuteronomy.
1:48.2	This is your life.
1:50.0	Choose life.
1:52.1	Christianity is not trivial.
1:53.9	It is extremely serious business.
1:57.4	Not, don't confuse the word serious with sour or glum.
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