The name of this conference is How to Fight for Joy, or When I Don't Desire God.

And I said that the aim is not to increase your comforts, but to sustain the sacrifice of love.

And I hope that's plain.

I said also that the aim is to join God in displaying his glory in the world because

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. And so the pursuit of our joy in him is a pursuit of his glory.

And then we began some clarifications.

There are four of them.

We did one last night and there are three more.

The one last night And there are three more.

The one last night was the fight for joy is a fight for joy in God. It's not a fight for joy in general. I remember one conversation I had

with a seminary president critiquing the term and the vision that I call Christian

hedonism and he had it fixed in his mind. that I call Christian Hedonism.

And he had it fixed in his mind

that the philosophical meaning for the word

Hedonism was that happiness becomes the criterion for right and wrong and that is one of the

historic meanings for the word hedonism.

A hedonist in the old Greek sense was somebody who said whatever makes you

happy is right and whatever makes you unhappy is wrong. And so he took that definition and put it on my term and said that's a bad idea, Piper.

You shouldn't be promoting Christian hedonism.

And my response is that Christian Hedonism does not make happiness

the measure of right and wrong.

Christian Hedonism makes God the measure of right and wrong

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