Where do you get any comfort if you don't know the covenant love of God,

distinguishingly setting his favor upon you, making you his own,

putting his spirit within you and sealing you for the day

of redemption, unbreakable, because of the blood of Jesus. There's a difference between hearing

God loves you and knowing that he set his love on you. And once that really begins to land, it changes how you see

yourself and how you see everything else. I'm Dan Kruver. In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper turns to Romans 1, 6 and 7 to take us into the covenant love of God that not only saves us, but keeps us.

This message was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on May 24, 1998.

This is covenant love.

I chose Noel to be my wife.

And I made a covenant with her on December 21st, 1968, and I sealed that covenant with a vow sacred and holy before God Almighty and by grace I will never break that covenant and God sealed that covenant in heaven what God has joined together what God has joined, let no man put asunder and she is mine and I am hers and the love that I have for her henceforth is absolutely unique even though

there are many other people I would die for.

This is covenant love.

This is married love.

This is vowed love.

This is I am yours and you are mine love.

And this is not the general love that made the sun come up this morning on a wicked city.

It's more.

I said, I want to enlarge your love that is your grasp of the love of God.

I want to make it smaller this morning.

I want to make it bigger.

I want to make it deeper.

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