If Christ didn't touch one of your earthly problems,

the gospel would be spectacularly, unspeakably, good news.

Why?

Because Jesus rescues us from the wrath to come.

If Jesus never touched one of your earthly struggles, the gospel would still be stunningly good.

That's what we discover when we answer the question, what does God save us from?

I'm your host, Dan Kroover. In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper centers our hope

not in circumstantial change, but in deliverance from the judgment we all deserve.

This message was originally delivered at Columbia International University on Thursday, February 25, 1999.

Let's pray together.

Oh, Father in heaven, the needs are Let's pray together.

Oh, Father in heaven, the needs are immense.

The need for answers.

Be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you,

reason for the hope that is in you.

There are so many questions.

This room is full of answers.

Every person is an answer.

Lord, make us answers, I pray. May our lives be an answer to Muslims and Hindus and

Jews and nominal Catholics.

Grant, I pray that there would be an anointing Father Apostol Catholics.

Grant, I pray that there would be an anointing, Father, upon these last hours together this day, that would turn this whole campus till Jesus comes into an answer to the world.

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