This text leaves no doubt about which God plans for you.

He means for you to hear today the verdict in the courtroom not guilty.

In order that, you might walk according to the spirit by having a mindset that loves the things of the spirit

because there's a spirit who's working life and peace in you which delivered you from the bondage of slavery to your hostility to God.

What if the reason we struggle to love the things of God isn't because we haven't tried hard enough,

but because we haven't fully heard and believed God's verdict.

John Piper says that the Spirit works life and peace in those who are not condemned.

I'm your host, Dan Kruver.

In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper unpacks how the gospel frees us from slavery

to hostility to love what God loves. This message was originally delivered at the Cove

in Asheville, North Carolina on July 9, 2003.

Now, I know that my love is imperfect.

So let me try to give three reasons why I think my imperfect love and what will follow fulfills the just requirement of the law when it is

worked by the Holy Spirit, which is what's coming.

One, my imperfect love is nevertheless real God-dependent, spirit-enabled, Christ-exalting love, Based on my justification. It is spirit wrought.

It is through faith. It is God dependent. It is Christ exulting. And that's what the law is about.

And so imperfect as it is, it is a fulfillment of what the law is after. Here's my second

reason. My imperfect love is the first fruits of a final perfection that I will experience

in the twinkling of an eye at the coming of the

Lord, or if I die, my heart will be morally perfected in heaven.

This text does not say in order that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled

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