When Mercy Overcomes the World
Light + Truth
Desiring God
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What are those two verses have to do with each other? |
| 0:10.3 | Bless those who persecute you. |
| 0:13.5 | Bless and do not curse them. |
| 0:17.2 | So this is mercy, right? |
| 0:19.2 | This is mercy. |
| 0:21.1 | Be disposed towards your persecutors the way God was disposed towards you. |
| 0:28.5 | And he doesn't just say, treat them well while you hate them inside. |
| 0:34.3 | He says, bless them. |
| 0:36.6 | You know what blessing is? It's wanting that things go well for them and speaking that blessing over them. |
| 0:44.3 | Wanting that our enemies prosper. |
| 0:50.3 | One of the hardest commands in the Bible is also one of the clearest. |
| 0:57.6 | Bless those who persecute you. |
| 1:00.4 | Not just tolerate, but bless. |
| 1:03.6 | I'm Dan Kroover. |
| 1:05.6 | In this episode of Light and Truth, |
| 1:08.7 | John Piper opens Romans 12, verses 9 to 21 to help us see how God's mercy |
| 1:14.9 | toward us is meant to spill over even toward our enemies. This message was originally delivered |
| 1:22.8 | at the Cove in Nashville, North Carolina on July 28, 2007. |
| 1:32.0 | Where does hope, which gives rise to joy, which gives rise to patience, come from? |
| 1:40.9 | It comes from God. |
| 1:42.6 | Turn Ephesians 1 with me for a minute. |
| 1:46.8 | Romans, 1 Corinthians, Gleic Ephesians. |
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