Well, his holiness, the fight against sin or his holiness, the fight for joy in God.

It's a very good question from a listener named Kendall, Hello Pastor John, a group of

guys and myself have been reading through your book Desiring God.

Awesome book.

Thank you for it.

My question in overcoming sin and temptation, the strategy most of us attempt to employ

is to fight it, overcome it, outpower it, and outwill it.

But after reading the first few chapters of your book, I'm wondering if our job as Christians

is not to fight against something, but to fight for something else, namely joy and pleasure

in God.

My heart was created to be pleased, so when I fight against sin, am I unwittingly fighting

against my own nature to find pleasure?

I understand that sin offers a certain level of satisfaction and pleasure, so to fight

against it with no better satisfaction and view is to deny my own humanity, but to fight

for pleasure in God.

As a means of overcoming sin and temptation, affirms my desire to be pleased and reorient

my desire to its proper place.

So should we fight against sin or instead should we fight for pleasure in God, which will

in turn kill our sin?

What would you say Pastor John, to Kendall?

Maybe the most important thing to say to Kendall is this, put every question like that

through the sieve of the Bible.

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