You fight the promise of satisfaction that sin gives you with the promise of a superior satisfaction.

And therefore, the root of sin, which is the promise of joy or the promise of happiness or the promise of satisfaction is severed. You

severed the root of sin with the acts of faith in future grace. You ever notice how temptation

doesn't just tell you to do something wrong. It actually promises you'll feel good if you do. That's why willpower

alone isn't enough to combat temptation. I'm Dan Kroover. In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper shows how faith fights sin not by saying no harder harder but by trusting the promise of something

better this message was originally delivered at the EFAC National Conference in

Melbourne Australia on June 27th 1996 what is it about faith what is it about faith?

What is it about saving faith that necessarily produces love or holiness or ministry?

Now the key answer there is, I believe, two things. First, it is the future orientation of faith on future grace. And then secondly, it's going to be the nature of faith as satisfaction in God.

But let me take them one at a time.

The point I'm at now in my exposition is, what is the biblical nature of saving faith

such that it inevitably transforms life into holiness and love?

That's my question.

And my first answer is, saving faith has a future. transforms life into holiness and love. That's my question.

And my first answer is, saving faith has a future orientation on the promises of future grace.

Now, to make this plain, I need to explain what I mean by future grace.

I find that in American evangelicalism of the conservative, evangelistic variety that I hail from,

saving faith is almost always considered in a past tense.

You ask somebody if they're a Christian, and they say, I believe.

I once upon a time trusted Christ.

I, when I was six or 26, put my faith in Jesus.

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