So we're going to talk about implications for worship of what we just settled on.

So these two points, the intensification of worship as an inward experience, and now having settled

on biblically that the essence or heart of that is a being satisfied with all that God

is for us, What does that imply?

What are the practical outworkings?

And I think I've got four of them.

Number one, the pursuit of joy in God is not optional.

It is our highest duty.

There are millions of Christians who have absorbed a popular ethic that comes more from

Emmanuel Kant than from the Bible that it is morally deficient to seek our own happiness,

to pursue joy, to crave satisfaction, to devote ourselves, to seeking it. This is absolutely

deadly for authentic worship.

So I think there needs to be some teaching on what I call Christian hedonism.

Because if this lurks in your people that I get the impression that the pastor or the worship leader here

is telling me I should pursue my joy.

I should go after it like a dog goes after a bone or like a greedy miser goes after silver.

Yes, that's what we're saying.

That's not wrong.

That's true.

Well, that doesn't feel right to me.

And as long as it doesn't feel right, they're going to be bound up.

They can all bound up in worship.

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