If the heart is satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus, the power of sin to lure

you away is broken.

You wonder how to break the sin of lust in your life, pornography, how to break the sin of greed

in your life and your insatiable desire to have more money and more security in retirement?

How do you break that power?

And the answer is a radically superior satisfaction.

I think all of us have tried the whole willpower thing when it comes to sin, and we found

that it just doesn't work, at least not for long.

And that's why what John Piper says here is really helpful.

I'm Dan Kroover.

In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper shows us how the fight against sin is one not by gritting our teeth,

but by being deeply satisfied in God.

This message was originally delivered in Birmingham, Alabama at the William E. Conger Lectures

on February 26, 1998.

Let me stay my thesis again, so you can, try to keep you up to date with where I am in my sequence of thought.

The most powerful, painful acts of radical obedience are motivated by a supreme passion for pleasure in God.

I would add now in the holiness of God. And the preaching that

will kind of obedience must portray God as supremely and everlastingly satisfying.

The beginning of the Christian life is the discovery of how wrong everything has been,

how out of sync with God, how your values have been inverted, how your taste have been blunted,

and suddenly by the awakening of the Holy Spirit, you can now taste the beauty of holiness, the beauty of Christ,

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