Argument number eight. Love for people is the overflow of expansion of joy in God.

Now here's why we're going to linger on this for a few minutes.

In the previous session, we talked about how I was excited in the early days of my discoveries

about vertical Christian hedonism, being satisfied

in God, glorifies God, because my soul is deeply satisfied in him. When he sees that, he's made

much of, and the vertical is working. And I thought, is this going to have any effect on my life

in relation to other people? Or am I just going to go become like a Buddha, cross-legged, sitting under a tree,

experiencing nirvana, or is that Hinduism?

I don't know.

Just experiencing me and God or nothingness, and the world can go to hell.

But we're really happy.

That's scary.

And there are a lot of churches that feel that way, I suppose.

We just, we like each other so much.

We got our vertical worship going,

and we're surrounded by pagans that are perishing, and make any difference. Well, if that's what

happens, then you can just throw Christian hedonism away. Just throw it away. If you go to church and that church says, we're Christian hedonist, and they don't do evangelism,

they don't care for the suffering of the world, and say, but they're real.

You will know them by their what?

Fruits.

And the fruit very largely is, I mean, what's the first one mentioned in Galatians 5?

The fruit of the spirit is, what's the first one?

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