But at the edge of the Grand Canyon, when the soul is just drawn out and for a fleeting God-given moment they are non-self-conscious and only feel

wonder. and only feel wonder they have tasted a parable of what they were created for, God. What were we created for?

That's the question John Piper answers in this episode of Light and Truth.

This message was originally given in Phoenix, Arizona

at the Desiring God 2006 Regional Conference.

It's not surprising that you find the gospel described as the Gospel of the glory of Christ. Let's go to 2 Corinthians 4. 2 Corinthians, chapter 4. And here we learn what it is to be lost, what it is to be

converted, and how to minister to people between those two.

Chapter 4, verse 4 of 2 Corinthians,

in their case, the God of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers.

This is the definition of lostness.

To be lost is to be blinded to what? Here it comes. He has blinded the minds of unbelievers to keep them from seeing

the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.

In a sense, God is the gospel, that book over in the bookstore,

is one extended exposition of that verse.

The light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ

who is the image of God.

That's really big.

Oh, what is packed in to light of the gospel, of the glory of Christ, who is God, imaged forth in man.

Wow.

So just let it land on you that when Paul chose to describe lostness, he said it's blindness to glory.

It's blindness to glory.

It's blindness to glory.

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