John Piper on the Law

"1. The Law in it's narrow, short-term design demands perfectly the 613 commandments of the Pentateuch in order to have life ... 2. The recipients of this law (Israel and indirectly all the Gentiles) are uniformly sinful and hostile to God. They do not submit to God and cannot ... 3. The effect of this law on sinful Israel when she is confronted with hundreds of commandments is the awareness of latent sin (Romans 7:7), the increase of sin by it's becoming exceedingly sinful and the multiplication of trangressions (Romans 5:20, 7:13).

4. This narrow, short-term design is expressed in Galatians 3:22 - the effect of this design of the law is to kill rather than to make alive ... 5. All of this deadly design of the law is sufficient to warrant the statement in Galatians 3:12 ... The narrow short-term design of the law is imprisonment to sin, multiplied transgressions and death".

John Piper - "The Future of Justification: A Response to N T Wright" - IVP, Nottingham (2008) - (pp197-198).

John Piper on Radical, Grace Living

"What makes radical, risk-taking, sacrificial, Christ-exalting works of love possible is the fact that Christ's perfect obedience (counted as our righteousness) and Christ's perfect sacrifice (counted as our punishment) secured completely the glorious reality that God is for us as an omnipotent Father who works all things together for our everlasting joy in Him".

John Piper - "The Future of Justification: A Response to N T Wright" - IVP, Nottingham (2008) - (p187).

John Piper on Grace vs Law

"If we make the mistake of thinking that our works of love (the fruit of God's Spirit) secure or increase God's commitment to be completely for us now, and in the last judgement, we compromise the very reason that these works of love exist, namely to display the infinite worth of Christ and His work as our all-sufficient obedience and all-sufficient sacrifice".

John Piper - "The Future of Justification: A Response to N T Wright" - IVP, Nottingham (2008) - (p186).

John Piper on Our Only Hope For Christian Living

"Our only hope for living the radical demands of the Christian life is that God is totally for us now and forever. Therefore, God has not ordained that living the Christian life should be the basis of our hope that God is for us. That basis is the death and righteousness of Christ, counted as ours through faith alone. On the cross Christ endured for us all the punishment required of us because of our sin. And in order that God as our Father, might be completely for us and not against us forever, Christ has performed for us, in His perfect obedience to God, all that God required of us as the ground of His being totally for us forever".

John Piper - "The Future of Justification: A Response to N T Wright" - IVP, Nottingham (2008) - (p184).

John Piper on Imputation

"Imputation is not the conferring of a status without a ground of real imputed moral righteousness. It is the counting of an alien, real, moral, perfect righteousness, namely Christ's as ours".

John Piper - "The Future of Justification: A Response to N T Wright" - IVP, Nottingham (2008) - (p171).

John Piper on Justification

"God counts us as having His righteousness in Christ because we are united to Christ by faith alone. That is, we are counted as perfectly honouring and displaying the glory of God, which is the essence of God's righteousness and which is also a perfect fulfilling of the law. This is what God imputes to us and counts us as having because we are in Christ who perfectly honoured God in His sinless life. It is not nonsense. It is true and precious beyond words".

John Piper - "The Future of Justification - A Response to N T Wright" - IVP, Nottingham (2008) - (p165).