- All of creation was meant to communicate the supreme beauty and worth of God.
- God created the world for His glory. He created the world so that He would be magnified by the way His creatures find their greatest satisfaction in Him.
- Money, sex, and power exist ultimately to show that God is more to be desired than money, sex, and power.
- Everything hangs on what we value as supreme. What is our highest treasure? What is our greatest satisfaction? When God takes that place in our hearts (of the greatest treasure and satisfaction); then money, sex and power begin to find their true and beautiful order.
Definitions and Foundations
- Money: not just paper and coins but the pleasures, advantages or status that money can signify.
- Money, sex and power are gifts from God. If they sink us, it's not because they are bad. It's because something happened inside of us to turn instruments of grace into instruments of sin, into altars and incense in the temple of pride.
Notes from John Piper's book: Living in the Light: Money, Sex and Power.
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