If you want to be right with God, don't turn to the law.

Is that clear?

Don't turn to the law. Turn to Christ.

Hi, I'm your host, Dan Kroover.

Can the law make you right with God or change your heart?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper turns to Romans 8 verses 1 to 4

to explain why the law can do neither. Only Christ received by faith can justify and transform.

This message was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on November 4, 2001.

Now, Father, as I attempt to, with your help, unfold these words concerning what the law could not do.

I pray that you would come and be powerfully in this service by your spirit,

quickening where there's no life and bringing into being what is not believing hearts,

establishing faith where you find it,

purifying lives that have become sullied,

strengthening the weak, healing the sick,

reconciling the estranged, encouraging the weak, healing, the sick, reconciling, the estranged, encouraging the downcast, giving hope to

the despairing, guidance to the confused, and a thousand needs in this room, Lord, 10,000.

That I know nothing about nor can even imagine that you see, know, care about.

That this word, like miracle bread would have a healing, saving, befriending effect where I can't even imagine.

It's yours, Lord. Watch over it to perform it. I pray in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Let's read verse 3 and I'll tell you where I'm going this time.

For what the law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh,

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