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You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

John Piper

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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
Clergyman
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
John Stephen Piper
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