You have heard this morning that love and readiness to embrace others who are suffering comes from an indomitable joy rooted in a confidence in a better possession.

How has Christ given us the confidence we need to love others even when there's a cost?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper opens Hebrews 10, 32 to 39, to reveal what it is that empowers sacrificial love.

This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on April 27, 1997.

Let's take the word knowing.

Knowing.

Knowing.

You've got to know this, folks.

You can't just say maybe there's something after the grave.

Maybe it's better and maybe it's long.

But I don't know.

You won't love long like that.

Not in dangerous situations.

You will make the most of this life for your private self

because you're just not sure that this might be the end of the line, baby.

And if you don't get as many toys as you can

have, here, you blew it. So you got to know this thing. You got to know that we are passing through

here. It's two seconds. It's a vapor's breath. And then eternal joy. I'll tell you, if you believe that,

if you believe that,

you will be one

great risk taker.

So how do you know?

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