Another quote from John Piper. This time from The Passion of Jesus Christ (An even better book than his Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ):
The world will bring its condemnation. They may even put their sword behind it. But we know that the highest court has already ruled in our favor. "If God is for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31). No one successfully. If they reject us, he accepts us. If they hate us, he loves us. If they afflict us, he refines us by the fire. If they kill us, he makes it a passage to paradise. They cannot defeat us. Christ has died. Christ has risen. We are alive in him. And in him there is no condemnation. We are forgiven, and we are righteous. (Piper, p. 43)
The world does everything to try to make Christ's death powerless, but they cannot succeed. God has already made it powerful and we are his testimony to the world through our changed lives.
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