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For over twenty-five years John Piper has trumpeted the truth that "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." He calls it Christian Hedonism. The problem is that many people, after being persuaded, find that this truth is both liberating and devastating. It's... read more
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“Sometimes what we need from the Bible is not the fulfillment of our dream, but the swallowing up of our failed dream in the all-satisfying glory of Christ.”
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'How can I obtain or recover a joy in Christ that is so deep and so strong that it will free me from bondage to Western comforts and security, and will impel me into sacrifices of mercy and missions, and will sustain me in the face of martyrdom?'
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Preferring anything above Christ is the very essence of sin. It must be fought.
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conversion is the creation of new desires, not just new duties; new delights, not just new deeds; new treasures, not just new tasks.
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God is glorified in his people by the way we experience him, not merely by the way we think about him. Indeed the devil thinks more true thoughts about God in one day than a saint does in a lifetime, and God is not honored by it. The problem with the devil is not his theology, but his desires. Our chief end is to glorify God, the great Object. We do so most fully when we treasure him, desire him, delight in him so supremely that we let goods and kindred go and display his love to the poor and the lost.
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Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do what a heart cannot make itself do, namely, want what it ought to want. Only God can make the depraved heart desire God.
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Nothing shows the direction of the deep winds of the soul like the demand for radical, sin-destroying, Christ-exalting joy in God.
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And then, almost immediately, came the realization that my indwelling sin stands in the way of my full satisfaction in God. It opposes and perverts my pursuit of God. It opposes by making other things look more desirable than God. And it perverts by making me think I am pursuing joy in God when, in fact, I am in love with his gifts.
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To be satisfied by the beauty of God does not come naturally to sinful people. By nature we get more pleasure from God's gifts than from himself.
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The fight for joy in Christ is not a fight to soften the cushion of Western comforts. It is a fight for strength to live a life of self-sacrificing love. It is a fight to join Jesus on the Calvary road and stay there with him, no matter what. How was he sustained on that road? Hebrews 12:2 answers, 'For the joy that was set before him [he] endured the cross.' The key to endurance in the cause of self-sacrificing love is not heroic willpower, but deep, unshakable confidence that the joy we have tasted in fellowship with Christ will not disappoint us in death.
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'Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.' In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will be our delight, our joy. This experience is humanly impossible. No ordinary person can speak in truth like this. If God alone is enough to support joy when all else is lost, it is a miracle of grace.
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Christian Hedonism is a liberating and devastating doctrine.
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Foreward and a Prayer
1. Why I Wrote this Book: Sustaining the Sacrifice of Love
2. What Is the Difference Between Desire and Delight? Discovering How Both and Neither Is the Goal
3. The Call to Fight for Joy in God: Taking God's Demand for Delight Seriously
4. Joy in God is a Gift of God: Doing Ourselves What Must Be Done for Us
5. The Fight for Joy Is a Fight to See: Valuing God Through the Eyes of the Heart and the Ears of the Head
6. Fighting for Joy Like a Justified Sinner: Learning the Secret of Gutsy Guilt
7. The Worth of God's Word in the Fight for Joy: Seeing the Measure of this Mighty Weapon
8. How to Wield the Word in the Fight for Joy: Musing, Memorizing, and the Message of God
9. The Focus of Prayer in the Fight for Joy: Desiring All Else Only Because We Desire God
10. The Practice of Prayer in the Fight for Joy: Morning, Noon, and Evening Without Ceasing
11. How to Wield the World in the Fight for Joy: Using All Five Senses to See the Glory of God
12. When the Darkness Does Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God--and Joy
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- John Piper (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Crossway
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2004
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