I said last time that the fight for joy is mainly a fight to see because that

corresponds from our side to God's purpose to display his glory and when you see the glory of God with the eyes of your heart

there is a taste that happens in fact when the Psalm says taste and see, taste and see, that's a remarkable juxtaposition, isn't it?

And Jonathan Edwards has helped me a lot in pointing out that you can conclude that honey is sweet or that

this is honey by a series of arguments like it's brown, it's viscous, you see the connection, it's got some

comb in it, honeycomb in it, so this must be honey. That's a totally different experience

than putting a little bit on your tongue and saying, oh, I see, oh, I see, see, with my tongue,

I see, there's an eye in my tongue.

I see, that's honey because there's an immediate experience of sweetness and that's a

picture of seeing the glory of Christ in the Gospel.

Second Corinthians 4. 4 has become,

in my experience in recent years, one of the most important passages for understanding

our experience, and it says, the God of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers to keep them from seeing

the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.

What an amazing verse.

The devil's main business is to keep you from seeing glory in the gospel.

The gospel is the Gospel of the glory of Christ.

When you look at the cross or when you read the story of the life and death and resurrection of Jesus and all of its interpretation

in the Bible.

What must happen is that something in your heart perceives, apprehends, gloriousness.

Greek-seeking. Greeks seek wisdom,

wisdom, Jews demand signs, but we preach Christ crucified, the power of God and the wisdom of God.

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