The text for Pastor John Piper.

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The text for Pastor John's sermon this morning comes from 2 Corinthians chapter 3,

verse 17 through chapter 4, verse 7. So please turn with me in your Bibles to 2 Corinthians chapter 3 starting with

verse 17. Now the Lord is the spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom and we all

with unveiled face beholding the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the

same image from one degree of glory to another.

For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God we do not lose heart, but we have renounced

disgraceful underhanded ways.

We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word.

But by the open statements of the truth, we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience

in the sight of God.

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are

perishing. In their case, the God of this world has blinded the minds of the

unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ,

who is the image of God.

For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servant for Jesus's sake.

For God who said, let light shine out of darkness has shown in our hearts to give the light of the

knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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