Well, is a Christian life a life of peace, or is the Christian life a life of warfare?

It's a great question with a stunningly simple answer, and it came in the form of a 2005

regional conference message from John Piper in Greenville, South Carolina.

Here's Pastor John.

The Lord Jesus on the Damascus Road says to Paul, I send you, I send you to open their

eyes that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God that they

may receive forgiveness of sins.

I send you to open their eyes, right, right, Paul knew good and well, God alone opens

his eyes.

Second Timothy 4, 6, the God who said, let light shine out of darkness has shown into our

hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

Paul knew that.

He wrote that.

He knew that God alone can raise the dead.

God alone can give hearing to the ear.

God alone can give light, spiritual light to the blind eye, and he makes humans an essential

element means in the process called evangelism, or he makes you a key player in your fight

for joy.

It's his gift.

He alone can give it, and you must fight for it.

Now that produces a certain modesty, I think, in the fight.

When I say, you must fight, and only God can give, it should create a certain modesty

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