What frees a person to answer this question differently than the way this guy answered it

is if he's rich towards God. If God is his riches. If looking up, he finds wealth in God.

And that God satisfies his longing, secures his future,

and all the promises of God provide the insurance that he needs, he's free.

Isn't it true that it's one thing to say God is your security?

It's another thing entirely to feel secure because of him.

I'm Dan Kruver. In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper helps us see what it looks like

when God, not money, becomes the place where we find our rest.

This session from, of course, John Piper taught on money

was delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church

on Wednesday night, January 30th, 1991.

Let's read this story of the rich man and Lazarus.

And you look for the verse in here now that sounds like an illustration of Luke 6.

There was a rich man who was clothed in fine purple and linen and who feasted sumptuously

every day. So notice the point. Rich, fine,

purple, fine linen feasted sumptuously, not once a week, every day. In other words,

that one sentence just packs in a lot of words to say, really rich, really well off.

And at the gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, full of sores.

And he piles up illustrations of how bad off this guy is.

Poor at the gate and have a home to stay in, sores all over his body. He was so hungry he wanted to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. To make it as bad as you can imagine, dogs were not nice pets in those days. Dogs were just

mangy old street critters, and the dogs came and licked his sores. So there's two descriptions.

They're just as bad as they can be and as good as they can be in terms of the world. The poor

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