Al Robertson
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the message I was giving them was come to Jesus and then grind it out for 80 years.
And then one day you get to go to heaven.
So I had all kinds of eschatological problems with that.
Hopefully you'll make it.
Yeah, you grind it out.
But I didn't understand what is that joy that was set before him?
You mentioned it was his love for us, but then we have a joy set before us as well.
And I read a book by a guy named Desire in the Kingdom.
I can't remember his name now.
James K.A.
Smith.
And he talked about humanity like we typically approach humanity at our cores.
We're thinking machines.
We're like brains on a stick.
And then the Reformation came and it was, no, we're primarily believing beings.
And he said, no, really what we primarily are.
is we're worshipers, we're lovers.
Yeah, it's not a matter of if you'll love or it's a matter of who or what you'll love.
And so that joy, I think what that sanctification does and the spiritual formative practices, at least for me, it's helped reorient and re-index my desires toward their proper end.
Now, that's a message that will resonate with young people because that is, I think, for my whole life, that's where I felt the emptiness.