God became totally for you when you believed in Jesus, by His grace.

Totally for you.

I mean not one millimeter of against you.

From that moment on God does not have one micro ounce against you.

All the omnipotence of the universe is for you and not against you,

which means that the obedience to these dozens of imperatives

in chapter 12 and 13 do not make him more for you than he was before you obeyed.

What if we actually believed that God is totally for us?

Not just a little and not just on our good days, but entirely for us all the time in Christ.

I'm Dan Kruver.

In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper unpacks that very truth,

and it's a truth that can change the way we hear

every command in Scripture.

This message was originally delivered

at the Cove in Asheville, North Carolina,

on July 27, 2007.

I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God. Now, that phrase, I appeal to you by

the mercies of God, is Paul's shorthand summary of what came before in this book.

He could have just said, I appealed to you, therefore, present your bodies.

And the therefore would be all of chapters one to 11 is the basis of my appeal to present

your bodies as living sacrifices.

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