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Resource by John Piper Scripture: Romans 8:12–17 Topic: Perseverance of the Saints

The following is a lightly edited transcript.

Our focus is Romans 8:17, and I’m calling it spectacular and scary. Spectacular because it says that we are the children of God and are therefore heirs of God. We will receive God’s inheritance, and that’s simply spectacular. God owns everything, and his children come into the inheritance of what he owns. Therefore, this is an immeasurably great promise.

And it’s scary because it says that we must suffer in order to get there: “If children, then heirs — heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided [or if] we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him” (Romans 8:17). So that’s the focus: the fact that all the children of God are heirs of God and will come into an immeasurably great inheritance, and the only way there is through suffering.

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