Randy Alcorn joins us one final time this week on the Ask Pastor John podcast and Pastor John

will be back with us on Monday.

Randy, of course, is the author of the new book Happiness, a really excellent book.

In Randy, you wrote the bestselling book, Heaven, and now you've written the book Happiness.

So how will joy and eternity be similar or be different from the joy that we can experience

right now?

Well, I enjoy in eternity will be the same sort of thing we know as joy and happiness

and delight right now, but it will be purified and absolute in the sense that as as pulses

we're sorrowful yet always rejoicing.

We live in a world under the curse and so there's always even as we rejoice, even as we

rejoice with those who rejoice, we weep with those who weep and that's right and it

should be.

We don't just paste on a smiley face as we look at a world of tremendous need of children,

suffering and you've got sex traffic and you've got all of these different things.

So right now our happiness in Christ is something that can and should be very real, but at

the same time we recognize that I can't be absolutely happy all the time.

In fact, it would be inappropriate if I was given the condition of the world.

So what will happen in eternity is we enter into our master's happiness.

I just love that it doesn't, you know, the master doesn't say to his servant, muster

up your own happiness and bring it here and it's your duty to make yourself happy all

the time.

It's that he says, enter into my happiness and the very place of heaven, which is what

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