What keeps most people away from the truth is the love of wickedness.

Love.

Pleasure.

The biggest barriers to embracing truth are not intellectual barriers.

The biggest barriers to embracing truth are passions, loves, commitments,

desires that are going to be crossed by that truth.

What are the consequences of turning away from truth?

In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper examines how rejecting God's truth leads to deception

and eternal ruin for those who fail to love it.

This seminar was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on March 23, 1994.

Not loving the truth is eternally ruinous.

That lawless one will be revealed from the Lord whom the Lord will slay with the breath of his mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of his coming that is the one whose coming is in accord with the

activity of Satan with all power and signs and false wonders

and with all deception of wickedness for those who perish because I remember

the first time I saw this out at Fuller shook me because they did not receive the

love for the truth so as to be saved love for the truth so as to be saved. Love for the truth so as to be saved.

Evangelicals often tend to simplify things so that they can be communicated to children easily.

My son Barnabas is in the kids class right now and he's looking forward to baptism and I'm looking forward to baptizing him

last Saturday night. I had a little while and I said let's let's read your your testimony

together that you're going to share with the elders in a few weeks

and so he read it to me and and uh it's a it's a 10 year old testimony and there's so many things in it

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