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

and Power.

It's a nice little hardcover available now in Amazon and downloadable free of charge to

desiringgod.org.

Pastor John, one thing that stands out in the book and you make it on this podcast all the

time is that God's commands against the sinful use of money, sex and power are not merely

just bare prohibitions, they are really diagnostic tests of our own hearts.

In the book, you write this quote, Power, Money and Sex are all God-given means of showing

what you value.

These are phenomena that diagnose the vibrancy of our hearts, explain this, and if you're

right, then it has pretty serious implications for Christians who attempt to see how much

sin they can get away with in their lives, unpack this reality for us.

Right?

Yes, that is what I say in the book and what I try to unpack.

Money, sex and power are God-given ways of displaying God's supreme worth in our lives,

or they can display the supreme worth of something other than God and prove that we are

idolaters.

The way you think and feel and act about money and sex and power puts your heart's treasure

on display, either God or something he made.

And one of the reasons for this is simply what money and sex and power are.

So this is where definitions work again, so important.

It doesn't give you three definitions, one for each of them.

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