Every square inch of this earth is gods.

Every moment of your death is God's take is borrowed on time from his breath.

You are gods.

He is far more secular than we often think.

Why does God delight in our everyday lives?

That's the question John Piper answers from Proverbs 111 in this episode of Light and Truth.

This sermon was originally preached

at Bethlehem Baptist Church on April 5th, 1987.

Today we move out one last step to that part of life which is not ordinarily considered religious. You might call it the secular part of your life, meaning the part in which you have ordinary dealings with the world,

you might call it the business dimension of your life,

or the professional dimension of your life. I mean things like filling your gas tank, buying antiques, punching a time card, paying your taxes.

Does God have an interest in this non-religious dimension of your life?

The store, the office, the shop, the kitchen?

Are there any wrong behaviors in these areas which are so

significant they could be called in God's eyes and abomination?

Now nation. Now with this concern, we've moved out from the center of heart, hope, almost as far as you can go. Hope, prayer, general obedience and now public justice.

But there is one more justice.

But there is one more step that we could take, and I want to take them both this morning. We could ask, does God have any delight in the behavior of non-Christian integrity?

Non-Christian or un-Christian, or unbelieving honesty and justice. So really there are two areas that I want to injustice.

So really there are two areas that I want to examine with you this morning.

The non-religious area of the life of a believer.

And then secondly, the non-religious area of the life of an unbeliever.

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