Let's pray one more time before I begin. I just want to personalize that for myself

Lord, I feel it prone to leave the God I love. Take heart oh God and seal it. Seal it for

their courts above bind me with chains to your throne I pray.

Exert your sovereign keeping power to awaken me moment by moment.

I will not be a Christian at the end of this message without your keeping grace. Grant me I pray to stand and I pray that

for all the brothers and sisters here. And now please help me to be faithful to your word and would you do

something for our minds, Lord.

In Jesus' name, amen.

So the centrality of God in our hearts with the assumption that in order for him to be central in our hearts,

he needs to be the gladness of our joy. We need to pursue our joy in him all the time in order to be loving shepherds.

So joy in him is crucial for his centrality to us and crucial for our people.

That's where we have been.

And now the centrality of God in the mind.

The work of the mind, the life of the mind.

I don't know if you've ever thought about how Psal Psal 100 is structured in the relationship between joy and theology.

It goes like this, and I'm gonna make indentations as supports with my hands.

Make a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth, serve the Lord with gladness come into his presence with singing now so

far that's the first session you got that right make a joyful noise to the Lord all the Earth. Serve the Lord with gladness.

Come into his presence with singing the point is plain in those two verses right that's

verses one and two it's a command not an option if you serve the Lord you serve

him with gladness or you displease him. The Lord loves a cheerful giver.

Shepherd the flock of God eagerly. Now, next phrase, no, get it? Rejoice, no, K and O, W, not you know, know that the Lord is God.

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