How can we not believe in the power of faith in future?

I've got a possession, folks, called the presence of Jesus.

And I would rather have that than anything in the world.

Everything is rubbish compared to that.

It is a better possession and an abiding one.

And if I have that, then if that Lord calls me to this sacrificial service of love,

and it costs me me I can see.

Have you ever felt like being grateful or thankful isn't enough to carry you through the hard stuff, the difficult times in life, that you need something stronger to hold you up?

I'm Dan Kroover. In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper turns to the book of Hebrews

to show us the power of faith in future grace

when everything else is stripped away.

This message was originally delivered

at the EFAC National Conference in Melbourne, Australia on June 28, 1996.

Well, let me illustrate from some texts how the New Testament, especially the book of Hebrews,

shows love to come from faith in future grace.

Before I jump to Hebrews, let me take you to Matthew 5.

If you're going to open your Bibles, I'll just show you.

These are samples.

I could do this in dozens of texts, what I'm going to do right now with three or four,

but we'll only have time for a few.

Matthew 5, I did my dissertation at the University of Munich on this text, verse 43.

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