One Life, enjoy it, or, you could say,

Joy, the most serious pursuit in the world

and I know that for a lot of people

the term joy and the term serious don't go together.

They feel like alternatives.

You can either be serious so you can be happy.

That's not true because the opposite of Joy is not serious.

The opposite of Joyful is silly or trivial, at least the way I see joy.

So I'm serious in my quest for joy and I want you to be serious in your quest for joy. It's not silly. This quest, this pursuit of your maximum

happiness in this life and forever. It's not silly. It's serious. It's not

marginal. It's not silly, it's serious, it's not marginal, it's central, and it's not optional, it's necessary.

I was thinking yesterday that there's an infinite qualitative chasm between those who are glad, happy, joyful, that they're not going to

hell, and those that are glad and happy and joyful that they're also going to be

with Jesus forever. There's an infinite chasm between those two groups of people.

Because... Because joy in Jesus, joy in God is not the same as being glad you don't have to go to

hell. There is nothing spiritual about not

wanting pain. And there's everything spiritual about being satisfied with God. A miracle has to happen for that to come true.

No miracle has to happen to be afraid of hell.

So there's a chasm between people who are scared to death of hell and what out and so

son on and those who have also had the miracle happen of no matter what Jesus is

everything to me. Those are radically different human beings, which is why the pursuit of that

is so serious.

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