John Piper at the New Canaan Society Washington DC 2015 Weekend Retreat sharing about "It Is Right to Live for Maximum Pleasure - Eight Reasons from the Bible".
16:30 "Christ is most magnified in my dying, when in my dying I am most satisfied in Christ." 18:28 "My vocation is now to do the hardest thing that ever could be done. Namely, stop enjoying everything else supremely and enjoy God supremely only."
I bind to pay for someone's else purposeless life in accordance with job 22:28, psalm 1:6, romans 8:1, 2 corinthians 6:14-15, matthew 6:24, 1 john 3:10, binding every unequal yoke and common share with those living without purpose, in the name and blood of Jesus Christ, amen and hallelujah!
Does anyone ever think god needs to apologize to us for creating a hell? Who wouldn’t think that a family who has a torture chamber in their basement has some serious issues?
These fine words cannot change that the Bible has little good to say about man's pleasure: 1 Timothy 5:6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. James 5:5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Hebrews 11:25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 2 Timothy 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
'At His right hand are pleasures evermore ' is also in the bible. Btw. The bible says as you have just shown that we should not love pleasure more than God. It doesn't say that we shouldn't love or enjoy 'legitimate' pleasures.
