The following message is by pastor John Piper.

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O.G. Sermon text for this evening will be from the Gospel of John,

Chapter 3, versus 16 through 21.

John Chapter 3, verse 16.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever in him should believe should not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already because he is not believed in the name of the only

son of God.

And this is the judgment. The light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest

his works should be exposed.

But whoever does what is true comes to the light so that it may be clearly seen that

his works have been carried out in God.

It has been very encouraging to me, as I know it is to you to know that people are being saved in these weeks as we live in the

Gospel of John and got an email recently and I'm starting this way just because

of that it reminded me that I should be more aware and let you be more aware that I know that the other campuses are there

when I'm preaching here. And so I say that to the downtown Sunday morning group and to the north Sunday morning group and to the north Saturday night group that when I pray right now I include you because there was a young man who came to Christ

mightily through the video, through a campus where I wasn't present and so the word of God has power.

Father, I pray now, I pray that on all the campuses your word would have divine power to destroy

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