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God took the record of all your sins-all your sexual failures-that made you a debtor to wrath, and instead of holding them up in front of your face and using them as the warrant to send you to hell, he put them in the palm of his Son’s hand and nailed them to the cross.

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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
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