I feel like I have the authority of Jesus Christ behind me because of 2 Corinthians 124, which says, and I say this to you now, not that I

lord it over your faith, but I am a worker with you for your finish it.

Joy.

Worker with you for your joy. Joy. an apostolic workman Paul says for what happiness.

So what is the joy the happiness that alone will truly satisfy us.

In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper opens the scriptures to show us Joy's only true satisfying source.

This message was originally given at the Desireing God Regional

Conference in Greenville, South Carolina on August 19, 2005.

I had 2005.

I had a kind of person in my mind because of a recent conversation at my church and this is such a typical conversation at my church and this is such a typical conversation there's nothing

extraordinary about it any any pastor in the room has had it most of you've walked

through it a woman who comes into my office and basically says like many of you feel.

It feels, Pessar John as though the distance between my head, which is totally affirming of everything you preach and my heart is about a thousand miles.

That's why I wrote this book and why we named this conference that.

It's called When I Don't Desire God How to Fight for Joy.

Because there are a lot of people like that and there are a lot of people who think that doesn't matter.

And there's some people that states the way it does matter in totally misleading ways.

And so we want to work on this together.

I am on what I consider an apostolic mission. John Bloom asked me at the

airport as we were flying down here today. How do you feel? How you feel about tonight? And I said, I feel like I'm on an apostolic mission.

I feel like I have the authority of Jesus Christ behind me because of 2 Corinthians 124, which says, and I say this to you now, not that I lord it over your faith, but I am a worker with

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