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John Piper "When I don't desire God"
Some Christians take the path of stoicism in the fight against sensuality. It doesn't work. It's not biblical. It is hopelessly weak and ineffective. And the reason it fails is that the power of sin comes from its proise of pleasure and is meant to be defeated by the blood-bought promise of superior pleasure in God, not by raw human willpower. Willpower religion, when it succeeds, gets glory for the will. It produces legalists, not lovers....
In other words, a passion for blood-bought, everlastin pleasure in God is the only power that can defeat the lust of the age while producing lovers of God, not lgalists who boast in their willpower.
Some Christians take the path of stoicism in the fight against sensuality. It doesn't work. It's not biblical. It is hopelessly weak and ineffective. And the reason it fails is that the power of sin comes from its proise of pleasure and is meant to be defeated by the blood-bought promise of superior pleasure in God, not by raw human willpower. Willpower religion, when it succeeds, gets glory for the will. It produces legalists, not lovers....
In other words, a passion for blood-bought, everlastin pleasure in God is the only power that can defeat the lust of the age while producing lovers of God, not lgalists who boast in their willpower.