Love’s Greatest Happiness

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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The union between Christ and his bride is so close that any good done to her is a good done to himself.

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0:00.0	October 19, love's greatest happiness.
0:05.2	No one ever hated his own flesh,
0:08.2	but nourishes and cherishes it
0:11.0	just as Christ does the church
0:13.9	because we are members of his body.
0:17.2	Ephesians 5, 29 to 30.
0:19.6	Don't miss that last phrase
0:22.9	because we are members of his body.
0:28.1	And don't forget what Paul said two verses earlier,
0:32.1	namely, that Christ gave himself for us
0:35.1	so that he might present the church to himself in splendor.
0:41.1	So in two different ways,
0:44.1	Paul makes plain that Christ pursued his joy
0:49.1	in pursuing the holiness and beauty
0:52.1	and happiness of his people.
0:55.1	The union between Christ and his bride is so close,
0:59.1	one flesh, that any good done to her
1:03.1	is a good done to himself,
1:06.1	which means that the clear assertion of this text
1:10.1	is that the Lord is moved to nourish, cherish, sanctify
1:15.1	and cleanse his bride because in this he finds his joy.
1:23.1	By some definitions, this cannot be love.
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