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RW makes a good point about the importance that our society has placed upon people being free to pursue their own self interest (pursuit of happiness). Because of this "materialism" we have been able to give to many others while enjoying a relatively high standard of living ourselves.
In the video, Piper makes a good point however about the "Prosperity Preachers." I don't see our free markets and consumerism as being a result of Prosperity preaching. Rather the opposite; our success as a society has spawned this perversion of the Gospel.
Piper's point is a life transforming message- for anyone who has been really down. When you've hit bottom (not sin, but health, finances career, etc) can you see God as All Sufficient? Can you praise him in misery? I mean absolute torture - the worst pain or most dire circumstance, what are the words that come out of your mouth through your clenched teeth?
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