We are people of the cross.

The Lord submitted himself to crucifixion willingly to save his enemies,

and we are called to take up our cross and do the same.

Every time we bring justice to bear on anybody, whether we're firing an employee or sitting in protest,

we are taking the log out of our own eye.

When you pull a log out of your eye, it hurts enough that there are tears.

And tears is what the world needs to say.

One of the hardest things about following Jesus is that we're called to love the people we most want to avoid or correct.

I'm Dan Kroover.

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper explains how justice that flows from

the cross looks different from what the world expects and why that matters.

This message was originally delivered at the Cove in Asheville, North Carolina,

on July 29, 2007. Let's go to verses 1 to 7 and conclude with this government piece.

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God.

Democrat, Republican, they're all from God.

Whoever gets elected? next November a year will be God's choice.

And dictators in Cuba, North Korea, China, Vietnam, they're all by God's design.

And those that exist have been instituted by God.

Therefore, whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed and those who resist will

encourage judgment for rulers are not a terror to good conduct but to bad good grief paul wake

up don't you want to say that i mean let's be of the Bible, but you won't ever penetrate to the

meaning of the Bible if you don't get upset by the Bible. If you don't find problems in the Bible,

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