Why Do We Need to Be Born Again?

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🗓️ 9 December 2007

⏱️ 42 minutes

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John Piper | If God did not make us alive to his grace and glory, we would remain dead — completely enslaved to our sins.

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0:00.0	The sermon text for today is found in Ephesians chapter 2 verses 1 through 10.
0:18.0	And you were dead in the trespasses and sin in which you once walked, following the course of this world,
0:20.0	following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience,
0:27.0	among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature
0:36.0	children of wrath like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
0:45.0	even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ.
0:50.0	By grace you have been saved.
0:52.0	And raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus
0:57.4	So that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
1:06.2	For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of
1:12.4	God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
1:17.0	For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
1:27.0	Let's pray. But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us, made us alive.
1:48.0	Oh God, thank you.
1:55.0	Father, I pray that a humble gratitude would wash over this people for life in the spirit. And I pray, oh God, that any who is dead here, who does not embrace Jesus as Lord, rest in Jesus as Savior, treasure Jesus as gold would tonight today.
2:38.7	North campus, south campus and here be made alive.
2:45.0	This is your work, not mine.
2:50.0	I plead with you to make it happen in Jesus name. Amen.
2:57.0	The first sentence in one of the greatest books that has ever been written about God
3:07.0	about 500 years ago, namely John Calvin's Institutes begins or is this sentence.
3:17.0	Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say true and sound wisdom consists of two parts, the knowledge of
3:29.6	God and of ourselves. Now it probably doesn't require any reminding today that the knowledge of God is difficult to come by and to
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