Who cares about being forgiven? So what if you're forgiven? What good is that?

It's a really good question I ask.

Because you could give some very worldly answers that shows you're using God.

Like, I hate a guilty conscience.

I really, I don't sleep well when I have a guilty conscience.

Forgiveness means I don't have to have a guilty conscience anymore.

I sleep better.

That's a bad answer.

What do forgiveness, reconciliation, redemption, and the like achieve for us?

That's the question John Piper answers in this episode of Light and Truth.

This message was originally given in Phoenix, Arizona at the Desire and God 2006 Regional Conference.

Now, question.

We got event, you got achievement, the offer, the offer of this to you.

You should ask, especially if you're not a believer in this room.

You should ask, is there any way I could get in on that so that the wrath would not be

on me and my sin would be on him, and his righteousness

would count for me, and I would have eternal life.

Is there any way I could get in on what he achieved? And it would be really bad news if the answer were sure, work.

And therefore, essential to the gospel is that this is free for the believing.

Give you a couple of verses on that.

We hold, this is Romans 328, that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

Start to breathe a little easier. Or, Ephesians 2, 8 and 9,

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