John Piper Quote: "The gospel is the rock of our solid assurance of the 
hope of the new heavens and the new earth. We will be raised, our bodies 
will be redeemed, the gospel of Christ crucified, providing pardon, 
providing righteousness, vindicating this by resurrection. All of that is 
true. it's just not the main thing. I'm concerned that we stop the message 
there and leave people with a sense that what the gospel does for them is 
get them out of hell, relieve them of their guilt, clothe them with a 
righteousness that lets them have relief in heaven forever, but they don't 
crave Christ. The ultimate good of the gospel is God Himself, beheld in 
the glory of His crucified and risen Son, enjoyed because of his infinite 
beauty, treasured because of his infinite worth, and reflected because we 
are being conformed to the image of His son. Christ suffered once, the 
righteous for the unrighteousness, that he might bring us to God. There 
is no end after that. The ultimate reason there is a new heavens and a 
new earth is because the risen Christ will never lay down His human 
body, but keep it as an everlasting emblem of Calvary where the glory of 
God's grace was displayed most fully. The whole material universe was 
created in the first place and then given new form so that the Son of God 
could be incarnate, could suffer, could be crucified, could rise from the 
dead, could reign as the God- man, could be surrounded by a countless 
host of redeemed people with glorified bodies who will sing with these 
glorified lips, and who will love each other with glorified hands, and will 
play with glorified bodies, to the glory of God. Because evidentially in 
God's scheme of things to have created mere-spirits would not display all 
of His manifold, kaleidoscopic glory as well as if there had been a 
physical universe where the son of God would physically be slaughtered." 
We will join with countless saints 
And forever gladly repeat this refrain: 
Praise to the slaughtered Son 
Your blood has ransomed us 
Worthy of praise forever 
Are You, our endless treasure 
And as far as we can see 
There are saints in white robes worshipping 
Every nation, people, tongue and race 
Are represented in the crowd that's on their face 
And we'll live in a city with no evil, no night 
For the glory of God will shine as our light 
And the Lord and the Lamb will forever be worshipped 
And things will be restored to the way they were purposed