Conversion to Christ: The Making of a Christian Hedonist
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🗓️ 18 September 1983
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The text from which Pastor John will be preaching this morning is found in Matthew |
| 0:06.1 | chapter 13 verses 44 to 46. I invite you to turn in your Bibles and follow long as I read and then as Pastor John |
| 0:16.6 | preaches as well. |
| 0:20.5 | The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field which a man found and covered up |
| 0:27.5 | then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. |
| 0:34.8 | Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant |
| 0:38.0 | in search of fine pearls, who on finding one pearl of great value went and sold all that he had and bought it. |
| 0:50.0 | Last week we saw that the infinite and overflowing happiness of God is the foundation of Christian |
| 0:57.0 | hedonism. God is happy because he takes delight in his own glory, |
| 1:06.0 | especially as he sees it reflected in his son, Jesus Christ. |
| 1:12.0 | God is happy because he is sovereign and therefore has the power to overcome |
| 1:19.4 | every obstacle to his joy. And God's infinite and overflowing happiness is the |
| 1:26.9 | foundation of Christian Edenism because it overflows in mercy to us. And we concluded at the end that not everybody benefits from that mercy because there is a condition that has to be met in order to be saved and inherit the overflow of God's kindness. |
| 1:58.0 | And that condition is very simply, delight yourself in the Lord. But many people delight more in riches and revenge and recreation then they do in God and therefore they are lost and need to be converted. |
| 2:25.0 | Conversion to Christ is nothing other than becoming a Christian |
| 2:31.0 | Hedonist. I want to try to show this morning. Now some of you may ask, well, |
| 2:41.5 | pastor, if your aim is conversion to Christ, why don't you just say, like the Bible does, |
| 2:50.8 | believe on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved. |
| 2:57.0 | Why bring in all this new fandangled terminology |
| 3:01.0 | about hedonism, which is so liable to misunderstanding anyway. |
| 3:07.0 | Well, that's a good question, and here's my answer. Try it anyway. I've had some real good opportunities to share with |
| 3:17.2 | unbelievers and with nominal believers recently and a conviction has come to a head in my thinking, we live in a superficially Christianized society. |
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