What we want, fellow humans, has a massive control on what we can believe.

If you want something badly enough and believing the truth will take it away from you,

you will see, see the truth as error and remain enslaved to your want.

The blinding power of human wants is absolutely staggering.

What does an unwillingness to believe the gospel reveal about us?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper turns to John 5 verses 30 to 47 to reveal

how our deepest desires shape what we are willing or unwilling to believe. This sermon

was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on September 20th, 2009.

Let's pray.

Father, without you and without Christ, and without the Holy Spirit, we can do nothing.

Nothing of any eternal significance and nothing that I really want to see happen in this message.

And so I invite you to come in power and to open the eyes of the blind and to grant

the taste for Christ that presently is either dull or dead and to set us free from the bondage to the praise of men.

So draw near now, I pray.

And do this saving work, this strengthening work, this purifying work, this liberating work in Jesus' name. Amen.

We move now to John 5, verses 30 to 47. When we move to John 5, I believe that issues are going to be

exposed in your life. I know they have been in mind, one in particular,

that we need help with outside this room. Sinful inclinations are going to be exposed in every

single person in this room.

I have zero doubt about that because everybody in this room is guilty of what this text

is most concerned about.

And therefore, if you have any ears to hear at all, your conscience will be awakened and you will feel bad about some of the

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