The point is not that the resurrection is the price paid for our sins. The point point is that the resurrection proves the death of Jesus is an all-sufficient price. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, then his death was a failure, God did not vindicate his sin-bearing achievement, and we are still in our sins.
John PiperWe do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture. We weep. Being pilgrims does not mean being cynical. The salt of the earth does not mock rotting meat. Where it can, it saves and seasons. And where it canโt, it weeps.
John PiperGod's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.
John PiperThe deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.
John PiperHomosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.
John Piper