The key to being content in the midst of abasement, hunger, poverty, brokenness, sickness,

and by implication all the painful things that you experience is to be content in him who strengthens you for that.

The strength of the Lord is in suffering, not from suffering.

If I'm honest, my default when I'm suffering is to want out of it as quickly as possible. But what if the real strength God gives

is for staying put? I'm Dan Kroover. In this episode of light and truth, John Piper helps us

see that the strength of the Lord is given in our suffering, not apart from it it and towards the end of this message

just to give you a heads up John Piper pauses to take a picture of the group he's

speaking to before taking their questions this message was originally

delivered at the EFAC National Conference in Melbourne, Australia on June 29, 1996.

Let's talk about covetousness as a state of unbelief in future grace.

A state of unbelief in future grace. Here's my definition of covetousness.

Covetiousness is desiring something so much that you lose your contentment in God.

It's an inappropriate level of desire, epithemia desire.

Thou shalt not covet.

Have you ever noticed how the last of the Ten Commandments relates to the First of the Ten

Commandments?

Have you ever asked whether or not they're the same commandment as I think they are, one

negative and one positive?

You shall have no other gods before me is the positive way of saying, thou shalt not covet.

And the text you will warrant for that is Colossians 3, verse 5, where Paul says, because of covetousness, wrath is coming upon the world,

covetousness, which is idolatry.

Covetiousness is idolatry.

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