A final and perfect deliverance of my mind and my heart and my body from indwelling sin has not yet happened.

Oh, how you need to know that so that you don't shoot. not yet happened.

Know how you need to know that so that you don't shoot yourself or become arrogant in your presumptuous pride.

So what role does the mind play in the Christian life?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper turns to Romans 7, 14 to 25,

to show the vital connection between a spirit-renewed mind and the Christian's ongoing struggle against sin. This sermon was originally delivered

at Bethlehem Baptist Church on August 26, 2001.

Almighty God and Heavenly Father, we have thanked you. We have taken our stand upon you as our solid rock and we have said to you alone be the glory and we mean all that right now too too. We're thankful for your word.

We consider it a rock.

We want the exposition of it to be a means of your great honor and glory among us now.

And then in our lives this week.

So come and help me.

Speak faithfully what the scriptures say.

And apply it by your spirit to every mind and every heart in this room.

Guard us from the evil one who swoops down to pluck the word off the path when it's not understood and grant that there would be a safe place here now for another few minutes

where the word could lodge itself

in our minds and hearts and grow up and bear fruit 30, 60, 100 fold.

Oh, Father, work, I pray, as you have been working.

Save, sanctify, empower. as you have been working. Save.

Sanctify.

Empower.

Emboldened.

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