Well, we close out the pastor's conference today Wednesday, downtown at the Minneapolis Convention

Center, and this conference is proven to be a valuable platform for us to gather and

to talk about and think about what it means to live and minister in a post-Christian culture.

This seems to grow more and more openly hostile to the gospel and more and more intolerant

of Christian views.

On this final day, we will hear from missionary Tim Kazee, I'm grateful for his dispatches

from the front DVDs.

I know many of you have seen those.

If you haven't, you should check them out.

And I cannot wait for his message this morning.

And then the conference ends with a speaker panel with John Piper, Jason Meyer, Leonce

Crump, and Kazee.

Be sure to follow the Wednesday morning schedule and watch the live stream at desiringgod.org

forward slash alive.

Today on the podcast, we look at a dynamic of sin that's very important.

Sin is kinetic, it is emotional, it moves and changes us in fundamental ways, as we

will see.

But more importantly, we must understand the joy, glorified joy that is unspeakably great,

is also kinetic, it also changes us.

So where do we get such a joy?

And how is that joy contrasted with the sorrows of this world?

Here's a clip from a recent John Piper sermon to explain.

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