When Faith Acts
Light + Truth
Desiring God
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🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The battle against lust is the battle of faith. |
| 0:10.0 | It's a battle of faith. |
| 0:13.0 | Every day, usually, some lustful thought will penetrate my mind. |
| 0:18.0 | And at that very moment, I know I can choose. |
| 0:24.6 | This is from long experience. |
| 0:26.6 | I know that I can choose to kill it, to crucify it. |
| 0:31.6 | What Piper says here is both sobering and encouraging, |
| 0:36.6 | because he doesn't pretend this battle goes away, |
| 0:40.3 | but he does say there's a way through. |
| 0:43.3 | I'm Dan Kroover. |
| 0:45.3 | In this episode of Light and Truth, drawn from his book The Pleasures of God, |
| 0:50.3 | John Piper talks about the moment-by-moment fight to crucify lust and how faith changes |
| 0:57.0 | what we see. |
| 0:58.0 | His teaching was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on Wednesday evening, March 25th, |
| 1:04.0 | 1992. |
| 1:09.0 | Gracious Father, how do we do things so that you are pleased with them? |
| 1:17.6 | We are made glad by them. |
| 1:20.6 | Others are blessed by them. |
| 1:23.6 | How do we make it our goal to be a certain kind of person and do a certain kind of lifestyle without becoming |
| 1:32.3 | legalists without trying to earn anything? |
| 1:37.3 | Without falling under the crushing despair of our own imperfections and failures? |
| 1:42.3 | Lord, this is so important tonight. |
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