John Piper Sermons

For Paul, the experience of freedom is not icing on the cake of Christianity. Freedom in Christ is Christianity.

We are freed from the burden of the law when we are given the power to fulfill it from within. And that happens when Christ is formed in us.

If Satan can't get you to disobey God's commands, then he'll try to make you obey them with the wrong spirit.

When you entrust yourself to Christ you honor him, and he would be denying himself to turn you away.

If we don't understand why the law was given, we can kill ourselves with it.

It would be terribly wrong to say that the Mosaic law was opposed in its teaching to the Abrahamic covenant.

When Christ experienced the curse of the law on the cross it was not his own but ours.

If your life is flat, empty, without exhilaration, without significance, without a single and fulfilling orientation, it is because you do not see the risen Christ for who he really is.

Though arrogance and rage assail, conspiracy will not prevail.

The central concern of your life is to ensure that you are a child of Abraham.

The essential mark of a Christian is not how far you have progressed in sanctification, but on what you are relying to get there.

The transgression against God is to presume that you can climb your way up a ladder of morality into his favor.

When you finally hear and believe the drumbeat of the gospel, the rhythm of your step changes. There is a life in step with the gospel, and there is a life out of step with the gospel.

Very few people today stand up and praise the unity and coherence of truth.

To try to explain the change from Paul's pre-conversion persecution to his post-conversion passion for the gospel merely by the work of men is to grasp at a straw.

There is one, and only one, gospel. It is therefore astonishing — and tragic — to turn away from it and lose both God and his grace.

The freest people in the world are those who submit most fully to the authority of Christ in Scripture.

Jesus makes it clear that eternal life hangs on whether we are ready when he comes.

The essence of lukewarmness is the statement, "I need nothing." The lukewarm are spiritually self-satisfied.

The point of Hosea is that God exalts his mercy by not giving up on his promiscuous wife.