I have a few favorite sermon clips from the sermons of John Piper and today's clip is

one of the very best.

I've listened to it dozens of times at least.

It happens to also be the favorite sermon clip of a long time podcast listener named Greg

Briggs who lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

It's from a 2004 conference message in which Pastor John is explaining how we order our

sexual lives.

Now, you don't have to be a Christian to see the destructive power of pornography on

the human brain.

You don't have to be a Christian to discern the difference between love and lust.

And you certainly don't have to be a Christian to know that adultery destroys marriages.

But you must be a Christian to see the battle for sexual purity within its fullest reality.

So how do we battle lust like Christians and how does sexuality find its ultimate purpose

and right place in our lives?

It is no overstatement that the following clip explains the key to it all, the key to

the entire struggle.

Here's Pastor John.

We were made to see and savor with everlasting satisfaction the supremacy of Christ.

Our sexuality points to this.

And we have sexual beings that we may know something of this.

And we must know this in order to be pure and have our sexuality be sacred and sweet and

Christ exalting and secondary, quietly, powerfully, secondary.

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