Why Do So Many Reject Jesus?

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

When the light of Christ shines upon the darkness of our sin, we either run to Christ as the only covering for our shame, or we run further into darkness.

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0:00.0	Happy Wednesday and thank you for listening to the podcast.
0:07.0	Last time we were together on Monday, we took some time to look at several judgment
0:12.4	texts in the New Testament to answer a sharp Bible question.
0:16.8	And one of the points Pastor John made on Monday caught my attention.
0:19.6	It may have caught your attention too.
0:21.9	It was how Jesus described judgment in John 319.
0:27.1	And this is the judgment, Jesus said.
0:30.2	The light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light
0:36.1	because their works were evil.
0:40.7	As Pastor John said on Monday, it's the world's love of the darkness that judges them in
0:46.7	the end.
0:47.7	I want to press into this point, press deeper into this text and go back to John Piper's
0:52.8	sermon on this text preached back in 2009 with that, here's Pastor John.
1:00.8	So verse 19 says, there is a kind of judgment.
1:04.5	How so?
1:05.5	How so?
1:06.5	How is it that when light, this light comes into the world, judgment happens.
1:10.6	How is that?
1:12.3	The rest of the text explains.
1:14.9	This is, let's read it again, this is the judgment that light has come into the world
1:19.5	and here's what happens, here's the split.
1:24.8	People loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
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