What makes you the happiest?

What are you after?

What's the one main thing that if you got it, would make you the most joyful person for

the longest amount of time?

Every breathing human being on this planet is on a quest to find a fountain of joy.

The whole Bible assumes this quest and the Bible answers the quest too.

As you see how Pastor John has historically turned to a handful of key Bible texts, particularly

four of them.

Four go to texts.

He mentions a lot of about 50 times now on this podcast to date.

And each is worth a close study.

It's worth writing out by hand into a journal, worth meditating on, even memorizing.

And those texts include some 40, verse 16, some 70, verse 4, Romans 5, verse 11, and 1

verse 3, 18, each of them in their own way says, God is the price of the gospel.

And it's two of these texts that came up in a very short video, John Piper recorded

in 2017.

I recently found it and pulled it to share it with you here.

Here's Pastor John.

What's the deepest root of your joy?

What God gives to you or what God is for you?

One way to get at that question in your own soul is to ask, why did Jesus die and rise

for me?

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