When you're watching, I presume, an X-rated video at home when the wife's away that you got from the nearby whatever store,

you do not have a passion for truth. You don't. It's gone. You're in the gutter.

The whole biblical vision of a large-hearted, noble passion for the glory of God

and the truth that God thinks about all things, that's as far away from your mind and heart at that

moment as timely. What does it mean to pursue truth in a culture driven by lust and deception?

In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper reveals how temptation and our sinful desires

can erode our commitment to truth

and pull us from the pursuit of God's holiness.

This seminar was originally delivered

at Bevilleham Baptist Church on March 23rd, 1994.

13.

Pressure to wallow in easily available pornography,

which clips the wings for soaring with God in truth.

I include the following quote as a pressure against the truth

because when we are in the grip of lust our capacities for high and noble

thoughts is small and therefore our passion for truth is lame give you the quote I'll come back

and maybe comment on that this is a quote from an article in leadership in 1988

with the advent of the video cassette recorder and the pervasive availability of pornographic material, ethical

resistance is apparently crumbling among evangelicals. A recent survey of clergy, who as a group

ranked significantly more conservative than the laity in matters of sexual ethics,

indicated that 20% of the respondents, that is clergy, preachers,

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