Let's pray together. Oh great God of highest heaven, glorify your name, I pray, through me.

And through those who hear me.

Unless the Lord preach the sermon,

those who preach it, labor in vain,

so come. those who preach it labor in vain.

So come.

Grant me not to say anything amiss, contrary to your word and fill me and us with your Holy Spirit.

And Grant, I pray that the great purpose of the universe for the bride's enjoyment of

her bridegroom would take a huge step forward in our lives tonight.

I pray this in Jesus name, amen.

So the subordinate goal of this message, the one down from the ultimate, is that I would be able to make plain and defend the claim that truth triumphs through pleasure.

The ultimate goal of the message is that you and your people through you would feel

that pleasure in God more intensely

than you feel it in anything else.

Now, to say that the goal of a message

is that a people or a preacher would experience enjoyment, experience pleasure

in God is not a contradiction to saying what the Bible says everywhere,

that the ultimate goal of all things, including this message is the fullest possible

exhibition of the glory of God in the age to come.

And the reason it's not a contradiction is because in the age to come, that fullest exhibition of the glory of God is simply not going to happen if his people do not

find their greatest pleasure in him.

It's not.

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