There is more energy flowing between the Father and the Son in love and delight and admiration and joy and respect and honor and esteem.

More energy going on there than all the universe.

It was the source of the universe.

And he says that's going to be in you.

So that you can love Jesus the way the Father loves Jesus.

This is really impossible for us to imagine that the love, the Father, actually has for the

son that deep eternal joy will be in us. But that's what Jesus says in John 17. I'm Dan Kruver.

In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper helps us see that the joy at the center of the universe

isn't just something to admire.

It's something we will actually be brought into.

This talk based on John Piper's book, The Pleasures of God, was originally

given at Bethlehem Baptist Church on Wednesday night, September 18th, 1991.

Our focus tonight is going to be on chapter one in the pleasures of God, and that's the pleasure of God in his son. And I would like to be on chapter one in the pleasures of God and that's the pleasure of God

in his son and I would like to read a passage of scripture in Matthew 11. This comes from

Matthew 11 verses 27 following. All things have been delivered to me by my father no one knows the son

except the father and no one knows the father except the son so there's this completely unique

intimacy and knowledge between the father and the son in the universe

but it adds no one knows the father except the son and anyone to whom the son chooses to reveal him

and then comes this invitation come to me all who labor

and are heavy laden and I will give you rest and so I can't help but think that

there's a connection there between nobody knows the father except the son and

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