back to indexWhat’s the Goal of Our Union with Christ?
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- Welcome back to a new week on the Ask Pastor John podcast. 00:00:07.840 |
We talked about sonship with Dr. Don Carson last Friday. 00:00:17.680 |
to help us overcome our personal discouragements 00:00:31.640 |
or about enjoying God as our ultimate happiness. 00:00:40.840 |
and number two, our enjoyment of God himself? 00:01:02.560 |
I think that's great, to help liberate people 00:01:05.680 |
who are stuck in bondage to sin and depression 00:01:09.920 |
and dysfunctional relationships and we wanna help them. 00:01:32.120 |
And by God's spirit, we are becoming in practice, 00:01:37.440 |
in reality, what we are in principle in Christ, 00:01:45.840 |
I don't wanna underplay those unspeakable truths at all. 00:02:01.280 |
Those things are true of us so that we may be freed 00:02:31.440 |
All of that to us and in us is meant to fit us 00:02:48.520 |
all of it is designed to make us the kind of beings 00:02:57.160 |
And the tragic thing about modern self-oriented life, 00:03:06.440 |
is that it all leaves us without our ultimate treasure, 00:03:28.600 |
namely I wanna be something, I wanna be someone. 00:03:36.240 |
I'm able to affirm the whole scripture, I think, 00:03:51.040 |
I think we treat the end or the final goal of redemption 00:04:00.640 |
as something less than God, namely our own becoming, 00:04:14.560 |
The way I asked it one time in a passion talk at Passion 00:04:25.680 |
or is it God, seeing and knowing and admiring 00:04:46.400 |
It is a glorious truth that we will be like Christ, 00:04:59.400 |
We will sit on the throne with Jesus, it says in Revelation. 00:05:11.960 |
except to call us God, which the Bible's not going to do. 00:05:30.080 |
You haven't begun to feel as excited as you should be 00:05:37.920 |
and sit on the throne with Jesus and shine like the sun. 00:05:40.080 |
I mean, your emotions haven't even begun to rise 00:05:43.200 |
to the point of excitement about those things. 00:05:46.640 |
But the question is, is that the sweetest ground of my joy 00:05:51.640 |
or is God the ultimate and sweetest ground of my joy? 00:06:00.760 |
we're gonna hurt ourselves and not just dishonor God. 00:06:04.880 |
Our souls are not made to find ultimate joy in the words, 00:06:21.720 |
I'm sure a few things will make me cry like those words, 00:06:26.120 |
that anybody could regard John Piper's paltry ministry 00:06:32.640 |
and service of the King of Kings as a well done 00:06:36.320 |
will be beyond measure in value except for one thing. 00:06:41.320 |
We're not made to find ultimate joy in being glorious, 00:07:01.320 |
We were made to see and savor ultimate worth. 00:07:05.120 |
All the glorious things in us ultimately fit us for that. 00:07:16.640 |
being what we must be in order to maximally enjoy God 00:07:31.600 |
Thank you, Pastor John, for that wonderful reminder. 00:07:38.520 |
899, which means tomorrow we're gonna hit episode number 900 00:07:43.160 |
in the podcast series, which is just incredible. 00:07:45.560 |
And when you do a podcast like this one for so long, 00:07:48.320 |
and especially with the topics that we talk about, 00:07:51.320 |
where we tackle the breadth of theological dilemmas 00:07:54.160 |
and we wrestle with so many serious ethical questions 00:08:04.880 |
Tomorrow I'm gonna ask Pastor John that very question.