The following message is by pastor John Piper. More information from desiring God is available at

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Let's pray.

Father, if all those who name the name of Jesus and claim to be his followers were to obey

verse 12, 10,000 racially oriented, and all other kinds of sins in relationships where we don't love each other but hurt each other would be taken away.

So Father, I asked that through the exposition of this text, by the power of your spirit,

you would awaken obedience from the heart.

May we become obedient from the heart

to this standard of teaching.

Whatever you would that others would do to you, you do that to them. This is

the law. This is the law.

the province.

What a Copernican revolution of priorities that would mean for us with others moving to

the center and ourselves moving out of the way.

Pray in Jesus' name.

It's a long title.

It's like a 17th century title. It's like a 17th century title.

The spring of persistent public love, marking the 200th anniversary of the abolition of legal slave trading in Britain,

a sermon on Martin Luther King weekend.

So there are three strands to be woven together. Strand number one, a biblical

portrayal of the origin of persistent public love.

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