The following message is by Pastor John Piper.

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Let's pray together. God dot O'R G.

Let's pray together before we begin.

Father forbid that I or any here would glory or boast in anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world was crucified to us

and we to the world.

And I pray for those in the room perhaps who are not yet dead in this way that

you would do the necessary killing tonight so that we would be dead to ourselves, dead to the world,

dead to sin, and alive forever more to yourself.

In the arms of our Savior, there are 10,000 charms.

And as sinners, we don't want to go there.

There are any other arms we prefer, and I pray that that would die and that the

cross of Christ would be the most precious thing in the world to us, and that you work in us to glorify the crucified and risen Christ now.

In Jesus name, I pray, amen.

So let me review with you from this morning to put this in context.

Wherever the passion for Christ, the treasuring of Christ, the affexional embrace of Christ is missing.

Doctrine becomes intellectualistic and the counter error is

debunking doctrine as though it's not important and wherever that passion is missing and wherever that

treasuring of Christ and that joy in Christ and that satisfaction of Christ is

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