![]() What’s the deepest root of your joy - what God gives to you or what God is for you? One way to get at that question in your own soul is to ask, Why did Jesus die and rise for me? And of course, there are glorious answers like, “He died to forgive my sins, and to take away the wrath of God, and to give me deliverance from hell, and to give me imputed righteousness, and to give me entrance into heaven, and to cause my body to be raised from the dead, and to give me entrance into the new heavens and the new earth and take away all my tears.” And that would be right and gloriously true, and we should rejoice in it. I recently found it and pulled it to share it with you here. Two of these texts came up in a short video Pastor John recorded in 2017. ![]() ![]() Each of them, in their own way, says God is the prize of the gospel. They include Psalms 40:16 70:4 Romans 5:11 and 1 Peter 3:18. And each is worth a close study - worth writing out by hand into a journal, worth meditating on, even memorizing. ![]() ![]() To see how, Pastor John has historically turned to a handful of key Bible texts, particularly four of them - four go-to texts he mentions a lot, about fifty times now on this podcast to date. What makes you the happiest? What are you after? What’s the one main thing that, if you got it, would make you the most joyful person for the longest amount time?Įvery breathing human being on this planet is on a quest to find a fountain of joy. ![]()
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