Faith, biblical faith, is a reaching out to all that God is for us in Christ, and a being satisfied

with that so that the root of all these competing pleasures is severed by that superior satisfaction.

You ever wonder why real faith actually changes people, why it bears fruit and doesn't just sit there static.

It has everything to do with who satisfies your heart.

I'm Dan Kruver. In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper opens up what it means to reach

for all that God is for us in Christ and how that kind of faith actually severs the root of sin.

This message was originally delivered at the EFAC National Conference in Melbourne, Australia

on June 28, 1996.

Let me try to rehearse where we were yesterday and then connect with the questions that I said I would raise tonight.

I said that the Reformation creeds all say that the faith which alone justifies never remains alone,

but is always accompanied by good works.

And I quoted the Westminster Confession

and knowing I should have quote from the 39 articles.

So I went back and found them, and now I will do that,

so that you hear from the horse's mouth what truth is,

and it's the same as the truth in all the other confessions.

But I'll read it here under paragraph or whatever you call them.

Twelve.

What articles?

Articles.

Of good works.

Albeit that good works, which are the fruits of faith

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