the famous preacher martin Lloyd jones in a sermon on flippian said quote false doctrine

makes joy in the lord impossible in quote

pastor john how would you articulate this connection between orthodoxy and joy

how does false doctrine make joy in the lord impossible

the key in that phrase i think is in the lord joy in the lord

false doctrine can make you very happy

if you don't believe in hell you might feel happier

if you don't believe that you have to

not sleep around in the weekend and cheat on your wife then you might have some brief

surges of pleasure

but when he says false doctrine makes joy in the lord impossible

he's articulating something really important namely

the only joy that glorifies God is joy that is based on a true view of God

if you have happiness because you see God the way he's not

you might have happiness based on your doctrine

but your doctrine will be false and therefore God would not be honored by your happiness

be like a person who's just really is watching his favorite football team

and he just crossed the goal on yeah

he's cheering his lungs out and he realized he ran the wrong way

he crossed the wrong goal on he didn't make he didn't make six points he lost

and so that cheering isn't honoring the team it's making a fool out of the team

and so false doctrine presents God or his ways in the way that they're not

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