Light + Truth Podcast Transcripts
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Classic sermons from John Piper to help you see Christ clearly and treasure him truly. Five days a week, 20 minutes per episode. Hosted by Dan Cruver.
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Free to Be a Slave to God
October 8, 2026
John Piper (0:05)
Our mission is to seek the kingdom first. Which means in other words, our all-consuming passion in life must be to glorify God in our bodies. By keeping ourselves free from every enslavement but one, the joyful, fulfilling slavery to God.
Dan Cruver (0:35)
Freedom from every enslavement but one. That one statement turns our usual idea of freedom almost completely around. The question isn't whether we belong to someone or something. The question is to whom. And the answer here is that the happiest place for the Christian, for humanity, is to be gladly, completely gods.
I'm your host, Dan Cruver.
John Piper (1:32)
The implication for the single person with average sexual desires is not easy. Even if a person gets married in their early twenties, a decade of preceding sexual stress has had to be coped with. And for those who remain single, whether by choice or not, the problem extends much longer. What help can we give to…
But it shall not be so among you. It shall not be so among you because you have been set free from sin and are now enslaved to God. Therefore, glorify God in your bodies by keeping yourselves free from all enslavements but one. God. Ten words of counsel that I want to give to persons who are not married, but who…
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