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or all thanks to our audio and video team. Thank you for listening to the Ask Pastor John

podcast. Today we close out the week with a question from a long time listener named

Chris, Chris writes and simply to ask this. Pastor John is Jesus, a Christian hedonist,

and if so, what will be your primary proofs from Scripture? Well, he asks quite simply

and I answer quite simply. Yes. Without the slightest hesitation, Jesus lived to glorify

his father by enjoying him as the sustaining power in all his suffering and by seeking

to enjoy him forever on the other side of the greatest suffering and by means of the

greatest suffering. So that's what I mean by being a Christian. And to boot, he taught

us to be motivated in the same way. So here are some of the texts to consider. In his final

great high priestly prayer, John 17, he says, Father, I glorified you on the earth having

accomplished the work you gave me to do. Now, Father, glorify me in your own presence

with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. So he was pursuing this restoration

of the fullness of glory and joy in his father's presence. And then he prays for us that

we will become part of it in verse 24. Father, I desire that they also whom you have given

me, baby, with me where I am to see my glory that you have given me before because you love

me before the foundation of the world. That's what Jesus was referring to. I think when

he said that one day we would enter into the joy of our master, his consummated joy with

the father would one day be hours. That's what he was pursuing. And that's what he wants us to

pursue. And we see this confirmed explicitly in Hebrews 12, too. We are to it says, look to

Jesus, the founder and perfector of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him and

endured the cross, despising the shame is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. That was

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