So what we've seen now is that the inward essence of worship is being satisfied in God.

What are the implications of that for worship?

And I've got four of them.

I think these are in your booklet if you have it.

And these are where the rubber starts to meet the road.

This means, and I'll tell you, it is life-changing. And these are where the rubber starts to meet the road.

This means, and I'll tell you, it is life-changing for worship when your people start to get this.

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional.

It is our highest duty.

That was the liberation in 1969, 1970, in reading Lewis, reading Edwards, reading the Bible, to discover that all of my guilt feelings during college of enjoying worship and enjoying ministry and wondering, is that okay?

Am I messing it up by enjoying it?

Because if I enjoy it, it seems like it's satisfying to me and not really done for God.

And all that stuff was just messing me up in the head for four years plus.

And suddenly I hit upon these truths.

That pursuit of joy in God.

And that, of course, is the key.

Not in his gifts.

This is not a prosperity gospel.

When I wrote the book Desiring God, a mission leader at the time, I didn't even know

what to become of him.

I haven't heard him for 20 years.

He just lashed out at the book in a missionary magazine, Desiring God.

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