If we don't get started, we're about 10 minutes or so behind.

We're supposed to take one more hour here.

Now, the implication of what we just said, namely that our joy comes to climax in glorifying God, or to put it like this, God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him.

That's the way I summarized my book.

God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him. If that's true, Christian

Edenism is born. That is, you now have the mandate to pursue maximum pleasure in all of life. because if God is most glorified in you when you are most happy in him, it's your duty to seek as much happiness as possible.

That's Christian Hedonism.

Now that's this talk, your passion for God.

Hedonism, according to one dictionary definition, is, quote, a living for pleasure, unquote.

I buy that definition and I embrace it as the goal of my life. I live for pleasure.

And I have heard from Psalm 1611 and many other places,

thou to show me the path of life in thy fullness, in thy presence is fullness of joy at

thy right hand are, what, pleasures forevermore.

So I know now where there to be found. Fullness and everlasting pleasures. My goal is to be as happy as I can be forever.

Now I hope in view of the way I started this this morning about ministering in tears, you will

not compute that in your brain the way some bright-eyed ever-smiling, cheery types would compute it.

Martin Marty came to Bethel one time when I was teaching there,

and he unfolded a very provocative message on summary and wintry personalities.

He said, there are summary personalities and there are wintry personalities.

I think I have an October personality. It's just always a little, I'm always kind of looking at the

I look at graveyards a lot.

I think about my mortality a lot.

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