John 17:13
But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
Condensed version of this message by John Piper:
That’s the condensed version of this message: 1) Jesus’ greatest joy is in the glory of his Father, and 2) he shares this joy with us by means of understandable propositions about himself and his Father and his work, which the Holy Spirit illumines and ignites as the kindling of our passion for Christ. Or, another term for these propositions is Bible doctrine.
The point is to simply affirm precious truth of doctrinally based joy over against the postmodern debunking of propositional revelation and biblical doctrine and expositional preaching—as though there were some other way to attain Christ-exalting joy.
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