When Worry Replaces Trust
Light + Truth
Desiring God
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the most wonderful description of freedom that you can imagine, just radically |
| 0:11.4 | free from caring about clothes and food and drink and material things of any kind, and utterly, radically sold out to the kingdom letting your |
| 0:24.6 | father meet your needs as he wills when he wills and not ever fretting and it still holds out |
| 0:31.4 | to me just a wonderful wonderful invitation to grow up into this kind of freedom. |
| 0:39.6 | Isn't it strange how natural it can feel to worry about money, about tomorrow, about just about |
| 0:47.5 | everything? That's what makes the freedom Jesus offers feel so unnatural and so needed. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm Dan Kruver. |
| 0:57.0 | In this episode of Light and Truth, |
| 0:59.0 | John Piper invites us to imagine what it would look like |
| 1:03.0 | to actually live like our father knows what we need, |
| 1:08.0 | and that he will take care of us. |
| 1:10.0 | This series is part of a larger course John Piper taught |
| 1:13.9 | on money at Bethlehem Baptist Church on Wednesday nights in 1991. I want to move on now to this |
| 1:25.1 | week's texts and raise the question of freedom from anxiety about money. |
| 1:34.0 | Freedom from anxiety about money. |
| 1:36.7 | You see, I think that Jesus is not really an economist who has a theory of economics that he wants to bring to the world |
| 1:49.0 | by which he establishes governmental principles and so on. |
| 1:54.0 | I think Jesus' message is far more radical than that. |
| 1:59.0 | He wants hearts that are so totally devoted to a kingdom which is not of this |
| 2:04.2 | world and are so completely satisfied in a God who can do anything he pleases that they're very |
| 2:11.6 | dangerous people. A man who is no longer afraid of losing his life or his home is a very dangerous man. |
| 2:23.3 | And a very possibly productive person for the kingdom. |
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