Otherworldly Hope

Light + Truth

Desiring God

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Who among us doesn’t struggle to relinquish comfort? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Galatians 5:22 to show how faith lets go because it sees what’s better.

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0:00.0	In the world you will have tribulation.
0:10.1	But be of good cheer.
0:12.2	I have overcome the world.
0:16.2	How do you not murmur when you have tribulation in the world?
0:20.7	You believe the promise. tribulation in the world?
0:21.0	You believe the promise I've overcome the world.
0:24.7	Believe it.
0:25.8	And if you murmur, you're not believing.
0:28.7	Falling into a brief lapse of unbelief when that happens.
0:35.3	Who of us doesn't struggle with impatience from time to time?
0:40.3	We wait, we groan, and when the trouble drags on, we find ourselves tempted to grumble.
0:47.3	I'm Dan Kruver. In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper looks at how to fight against the temptation to murmur when things
0:57.4	are not going as we wish they would. He does so by pointing us to our future hope. This message was
1:05.6	originally delivered at the EFAC National Conference in Melbourne, Australia on June 29, 1996.
1:16.6	All sinful states of the human heart are owing to unbelief in future grace.
1:27.8	If love and virtue flow from a being satisfied with all that God is for us, that is
1:35.0	faith, if it flows from faith, if it's faith that works itself out in love, the absence
1:41.0	of love is owing to unbelief in future grace.
1:45.7	And I would generalize to say all sinful states of the human heart are expressions of unbelief in future grace.
1:55.6	So what I want to do this morning is take two or three or maybe we'll have time for four sample states of
2:05.3	unbelief that every one of us in the ministry struggles with and analyze its origin and show
2:12.9	its antidote its origin will be unbelief its antidote will be faith in future grace. So what I'm doing
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