This week, John Piper's new book launches its titled Living in the Light, Money, Sex

and Power.

It's a trim 150 page book, published as a nice little hardcover by our friends at the

Good Book Company in England, available now on Amazon, and of course the full digital

book can be downloaded at Desiring God.

Pastor John, on this podcast, we often talk about fighting sin on two fronts.

There's an external front of shielding our lives from certain influences.

And then there's the internal front of filling our heart with God's glory.

In the struggles against the sinful use of money, sex and power, these things can seem

far more powerful and more dominating in real life experience than the holy affections

of Christ.

As you well know, what would you say to a young believer who feels this is the case?

Are you saying that God's glory is more powerful than the lure of internet pornography

for example?

How do you quantify the competing pleasures of the flesh and the explosive power of a

new affection?

Speak to a doubter who doesn't believe the pleasures in God is stronger than the lure of pornography.

Wow.

That question really captures my...

I really want to figure this out.

I mean, I get the difference between the powers of sex and the power of spiritual

ecstasy.

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