Our Joyful Duty

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

At the core of Christian Hedonism is the glorious reality that the duty God requires of us is the path to our greatest joy.

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0:00.0	Well, God commands us to love him.
0:07.9	He commands us to delight in him.
0:11.3	He commands our cheerfulness.
0:14.3	We see this all over our Bibles in the cluster of texts that we've talked about many times
0:18.5	over the years in Deuteronomy 28.47, Psalm 32.11, Psalm 37.4, Psalm 100.2, Romans 12.8.
0:27.1	2 Corinthians 9.7, Philippians 3.1, Philippians 4.4, 1st Thessalonians 5.16, just to name a few
0:33.1	of those texts.
0:34.8	Those nine texts I just mentioned in total have made close to 90 appearances on this podcast
0:41.0	now.
0:42.2	This casting of our cheerfulness and joy in God as a point of obedience is something that
0:47.2	causes a lot of Christians to scratch their heads.
0:50.3	Our happiness is a moral issue to God.
0:54.3	It's about obedience.
0:55.9	And over that point, we see disagreements or misunderstandings between Pasadjohn and
0:59.4	other Theologians, which we saw in ABJ 1584, just as one example.
1:06.1	At the core of Christian hedonism is a bringing together of our obedience to God, our delight
1:11.2	in God, and our glorifying of him.
1:14.6	Here's Pasadjohn explaining how it all connects in a 1989 sermon.
1:19.8	Judi and law are words that sound negative.
1:24.4	They sound burdensome.
1:26.1	They sound oppressive.
1:27.4	They sound limiting and constricting.
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