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The Joy Project

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

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

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2015

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

The doctrines of grace invite us to discover the endless fountain of all joy. Let The Joy Project guide you on a journey to uncover those riches of happiness.

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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, we tend to think of our pursuit of joy as

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a fundamental right, perhaps, but it is certainly fundamental to our nature.

0:28.8

We are by nature, created nature, not fallen nature, pleasure seekers, we want to be happy.

0:38.4

And we are also chronic failures when it comes to finding the kind of joy that will last

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for more than a fleeting moment.

0:47.2

What if the deepest joy that we seek really can't be found at all?

0:54.4

What if the deepest and most durable happiness we could ever possess is a kind of joy that

1:02.0

breaks into our lives and overcomes all our boredoms and ultimately finds us?

1:09.4

What if the truest and deepest and most lasting joy is actually out of our reach, but somehow

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reaches back for us?

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For a desiring God, we ask serious questions about happiness.

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We don't think there is anything more important for a human soul than being found by eternal

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joy.

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We ask very serious questions about joy and we seek solid answers in the Bible.

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That's the purpose of our new book.

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The title is The Joy Project, a true story of inescapable happiness.

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The Joy Project pursues these serious questions about joy through a story, through the unrivaled

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narrative of God's plan for our joy.

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The story begins and ends with God.

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From all eternity, before all time, God was alive with volcanic joy.

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Joy is essential to the very nature of God in the fellowship of the infinitely happy

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holy Trinity.

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