We are being called to be erratically countercultural people who have values out of sync with the world, not loving money, being content with God and the life he designs for us.

And that is based not on any kind of human ingenuity that you can figure out how you're

going to pay your bills, but that God has promised I will not fail to be there to help you.

How do we overcome fear and live confidently as Christians?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper unpacks Hebrews 13, 5, and 6

to show how trusting God's promise to never forsake us, freeze us to live boldly.

This sermon was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on September 14, 1997.

Last week I made the case that Hebrews is like a land that has broad valleys of doctrinal foundation and motivation and growing up or sticking up out of those valleys are peaks of practical exhortation,

love, holiness, peace, righteousness, run the race, stand strong, hold fast, and that the relationship between those two is that the peaks,

building your life on a hills so that men may see your good deeds and give glory to your Father

in heaven, are founded on those valleys of doctrinal, God exalting motivation and foundation,

which are issuing out into promises usually.

So promises and all the theological foundation of promises like the death of Jesus for sinners like us so that God can give promises to us and not be unjust or naive,

that theological foundation in the cross and the resurrection and those promises that make the broad valleys of this book

are the rising up of the peaks of exhortation.

You shouldn't get it reversed.

So we need to know these valleys of doctrine and promise,

and we need then to let our lives shine with

obedience to texts like verses 1 through 5.

Now let's notice the connection between Valley and Peak here in verses 5 and 6, just as an

illustration.

Let your character be free from the love of money, being content with what you have.

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