Next level Christianity: "My Joy"

So just carrying on from this morning, it said this morning what my hope was to do In the four messages that I have for this weekend that includes the hymn sing tonight I'm not sure if everyone's invited to that but Is to take up something from the upper room ministry calling it the next level Christianity next level because John could tell us he must increase and there's no stopping to that Christianity is not static. You're either going forwards or you're going backwards, but there is no plateau and So as we look to something more something to increase in our lives as we allow him more of us and this morning We looked at the fact that because he lives we live also and we looked at unity in Christ from John 14 The only time that the Savior says I love the Father Came on the heels of the fact that he says he was obedient unto the commands that were given him What I'd like to do in this session is talk about joy and we're gonna read a verse here in John 15 And verse 10 and what I'd like to do in this session is just to go through this verse With a little bit of the context and I'd like to speak about joy I'm not I'm not old, but I'm not young. I got saved when I was 15 And so I've been saved for 25 years and There is something to be said about Joyful Christians.

I've met a lot of Christians. I'm in a lot of places and I've known a lot of preachers a lot of them have been related to me, unfortunately and You mean I I've met men who can open the Word of God and just just leave you Dumbfounded and what you had missed all those years and I've met individuals whose hospitality I could put individuals, you know that thought they had a hotel I just put the rest of us to shame But over the years what has stuck out in my mind is when I've met someone and just to use the word They were joyful and you say why aren't we all well, no I mean you stand up here next time and you'll realize no not not it seems to be Decreasing sometimes and that has to be because we're looking for our joy in the wrong places But I can think of men that I've met over the years and I My mom always says don't don't give names from the platform. You know, it's kind of like bouquet tossing She said it she always wanted to blow the bouquets out of the air when when men would announce their men But there are men you asked me later and maybe we'll have the same men in mind There are men that I've met they're still alive today and when I met them there was just a joy that emanated from them There's even someone in the meeting here a sister that I've known for a while if you asked me Characterize her I would just say joyful beyond beyond anything that I've seen that was par for the course and So as we look at what the Lord Jesus here says about my joy might some of these things reverberate in our lives because there's a thousand and one things to be discouraged about and Yet it really depends on where you're turning your attention and what you're feeding on That will dictate whether or not you can look at these words and say let them be true That my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete Let's look at John 15 and we'll read just the surrounding verses as well We'll look at verse 10 and then the verse after it as well.

John 15 in verse 10 If you keep my commandments You shall abide in my love even as I have kept my father's commandments and I abide in his love these things Have I spoken unto you? That my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full This is my commandment That you love one another As I have loved you greater love Hath no man than this than a man Lay down his life for his friends just the key verse there verse 11 these things have I spoken unto you? That my joy Might remain in you and that your joy might be complete Sometimes we say with the psalmist of Psalm 52 Restore to me that the joy of your Salvation, it's not my salvation. We often say well, I got saved in my salvation But it is his salvation and therefore it is his joy that is offered you think about Luke 10 There it's the only time that the Lord Jesus rejoices It's the only time in the gospel you say something like that and you see your brother go like oh, maybe my My thesauruses or my Bible Word word dictionary is different than yours But the only time that he rejoices and he says he says to the disciples. He says don't rejoice about the triumphs in life He goes don't you he goes.

Yeah, you've been you've been stepping on snakes. Nothing's been happening You can almost see bring it down to our day. Yeah, there's a lot There's a lot to be joyful about in our activity But he says you rejoice that your names are written in heaven rejoice in his salvation Rejoice in the gospel and then the Savior says he says I rejoice.

Oh father that you have revealed truth Unto the young almost almost this demeaning term Unto those who really could have never figured this out if it weren't for the fact that I revealed to them because no man knows the Son except for the father and no one knows the father except for the son and he to whom he will reveal him so here was the Savior's joy that Individuals were responding to the Word of God and in responding to the having revelation They were rejoicing and where their names were they were rejoicing in what God was doing through them not what they were doing and so when we look at joy, I Like to start by asking you this Who's the most joyful man to ever walk planet Earth Now this is one of those Sunday school questions that's easy because it's either God Jesus or maybe Holy Spirit, right? But who's the most joyful man to ever walk planet Earth and it's vast history And then I ask you a second question. Why was he more joyful than anyone else? Any other person and if this were Sunday school like before we'd go through some answers. No, no No, you know a good answer.

No, why? Why was it why was it that the Savior was more joyful than any one of his peers? Why was it? Sometimes we have to come up with these answers and they're kind of argued about later on because we don't have clear scripture for them Hebrews 1 and 9 Says you have been anointed by God your God With the oil of joy the oil of gladness above any other man No other man has had joy from God like you Why? Because you hate what I hate and you love what I love you have hated wickedness and you have loved righteousness. I forget all the time With all the media that I'm inundated with With all that I'm asked to watch and to look at and to listen to I've become so callous And I've recognized where has my joy gone and I can only come back to that and say It's because I don't hate anymore what God hates And I don't love anymore what he loves because the most joyful man to ever walk earth Hated iniquity and loved righteousness and therefore He was anointed by God his God With the oil of gladness above his fellows. I leave you with that and I leave you to look at your own life and your own week and To once again, I say this my wife always says don't don't be that guy who who mentions and actually my wife and someone else Said to me this week.

Don't be the guy who who starts, you know picking on different different radio songs, right or different I'm not gonna do that. I may I may pick on tick-tock later on but don't don't be that guy But I asked my audience as believers in Jesus Christ Just bring it down to a real simple level the shows that we're watching and the songs that we're listening to are we able to watch them without considering that they promote something for which Christ had to die on a cross Calvary and If that doesn't cause us a disgust Then will we be joyful if the definition of joyful is to hate what God hates and to love what he loves? I leave you with that I don't have to pick out specific things because I'm sure that as I pick on you you pick on me But I leave you with that To look at joy in our lives as a result of what made Christ the most joyful man to ever walk this world I look at joy in Its family context that's important. It's part of a family of words that are That are extract.

They're wonderful words You may not have known this but the word joy a good conference I don't I don't spit out like the Greek words make you think that I know anymore But like for some people here, that's kind of a trigger. They hear Greek and all of a sudden they start taking notes So just allow me this for a while that word that word joy Cara Probably didn't pronounce it, right? Anyways, you know, it it's the same. It's the same family as the word grace charge It's the same.

It's the same family from which we get Thanksgiving Eucharist right? I know people like Eucharist. No, we we left that years ago my parents. No, you're still Eucharistic Christian.

It's okay Take it easy, right tomorrow. We'll be Eucharistic here Sunday morning. I will do that.

It just means thankful, right? You don't have to don't As my uncle would say don't don't get into a permanent wedgie about that, right? Gifts Matt was mentioning gifts this morning charismas comes from the same family all these words Charismatic Christians, we need more of them gifted Christians just in case you weren't already bothered. I want to bother you some more You see taking those root words that from which we get joy and and thinking of if a joy Increase is hating iniquity and loving righteousness. There are joy killers for sure There are in this life.

We often call people joy killers and I hope I hope that's never been a term Lambasted against me, but but there are joy killers. What are some of them? Well, we're just looking at the family from which they come some joy killers are just the state of being. Oh, oh We call it.

Oh witness. I'm owed something in this life It's it's the opposite of grace and which I deserve nothing Joy comes from this that I am owed nothing but the wages of sin the due reward of my deeds I am owed hell in the lake of fire and That is what I'm owed everything else that I have everything Everything has come from the grace of God So the last group on earth that should have a spirit of what I'm owed our believers in Jesus Christ It's a joy killer It so is that to have this spirit come amongst us where we are are owed something It was August top lady. I wrote down his quote there grace finds us beggars and leaves us debtors grace and Joy, they find us as as debtors those who owe but they they leave us They leave us as from beggars to debtors.

We owe him Never letting this state of owedness come into our lives by which we look at other Christians and wondering why we're not getting the right type Of respect why I'm not getting the the certain amount of tension that I deserved and that creeps in and man Does that ever rip the joy from your experience and from your fellowship this state of owedness? We enter into salvation as a debtor and we will end up in Emanuel's one day as a debtor Thank God that it's all because of grace and the more that we take that in the more that we appreciate that Will only increase the joy to which we'd long to have not only that but but the grace of God in our lives the grace That that should show itself in all this and so even gratitude The Eucharist word being thankful. I was in Garneville here for BBS and and I would say this I'd most I get to say it because I'm here unlike so many places There were so many individuals who gave me cards of gratitude and it wasn't just thanks I mean it was it was the type of gratitude where you Entered into a joy with them over what you had done for a week and just Sunday school work But don't lose don't lose that as believers. I Get so mad on Sunday night gospel meetings right after the guy preaches and everyone gets up and makes a beeline for the back of The hall like I don't know what's on TV tonight, but it must be good Be grateful Be grateful the guy who's up here be grateful for what people are doing be grateful And and at that point there's enough people going around who are mad and upset and angry or thing and aren't they really? Encouraging the local church.

No, they're not to be grateful because Ingratitude is a joy killer You will not be Because you're joyful won't make you grateful. It's because you're grateful that will make you joyful So start promoting an attitude of gratitude Of just seeing looking around and saying there is something to be thankful for I've met so many believers since Kovat in the ground There's nothing more to be thankful for I go you might as well just tie it up now then because there's no next level Christianity There's nothing else to live for but my joy His joy, there's the increase There's are the killers of his joy. I want to look at first of all in this verse.

He says here I Have told you The first word here. He says these things have I spoken unto you the reason The reason that any one of us can be joyful is because God has spoken That has to be the foundation. It has to be from where we start and where we end God has revealed himself.

He has spoken to us in our language and Might I add here let us not discourage people from reading the Bible in their own language The Catholics did that years ago. I have a picture on my bedroom wall of a man It's called burying the Bible and if you go look it up later, it's a powerful painting I saw it in the Bible Museum in Washington, DZ and the man there He has the scriptures opened and he's looking at them with such Intentness and his wife is behind him with a shovel and he's about to bury the Bible in the ground Why because the church was coming down the hill in order to find those who were reading the Bible in the wrong? Translation to take their lives. Let us not repeat the error of our forefathers.

I Have spoken and he wants you to understand His word I Have spoken the only reason that there is joy is because he has spoken. That's where it all starts What is what is the what is John the Baptist say in John 3? He says he says I rejoice because I am the friend of the bridegroom But I rejoice in hearing the bridegroom's voice and my joy is fulfilled in Hearing the voice of the bridegroom. How does the ministry end there in John 3 carries you right through to John 17? There to the high priestly prayer.

I have spoken these things in the world that their joy might be complete and There you have it from beginning to end John's gospel Begins with a word in the beginning was the word and it ends with a library all these things were they written all the books of The world cannot contain them. My friend you have at your behest a Volume of Scripture that will bring you joy because Christ has spoken He has revealed himself in his word Allow me this for a second. This is my my my wife's not here she told me she didn't say not to do it, but I I know I'm given to joking in that I I I I don't want to joke about this because I It's it's near to my heart and I I know it's severe and I I remember years ago They would come out and you always were hearing about guys who were Taking sledgehammers to their television and now these guys have television So obviously they were wrong about the sledgehammering aspects I don't I don't want to say anything today that I'm gonna regret ten years from now You're right, you know like ripping your radio out of your car, right? And then no boomboxes and all these things that there there's a I think there's a matter which you can go too far As soon as you start Wondering why it is I can't digest the Word of God anymore You know Jeremiah the prophet and Jeremiah 15 and 16.

He says this he says as your words came to me I drank them in They filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you as your words came to me I drank them in they filled my heart with joy and gladness because I belong to you Jeremiah 15 and 16 let us crave the sincere word of the milk milk of the word Let us take his word and bury it within our hearts Why has it become so difficult to meditate on the Word of God? How hard it is now? Speaker included I Was saying to my uncle as I'm preparing here. I can barely prepare for 45 minutes I gotta take a nap and then just repeating that and why is it so hard to focus on the Word of God? Because as as we scroll through YouTube shorts and as we go through tick-tock shorts and as we view 30-second videos for over an hour and a half We are rewiring our minds for instant gratification We are rewiring our minds and our hearts to all of a sudden Seek the dopamine that comes from things that promote instant gratification and leave me yes with a great amount of knowledge to take on my political adversaries and a great amount of Humor that has come into my heart and all these things none of them necessarily evil But they remap my whole mind so that I can no longer sit down with the Word of God for longer than 10 or 20 minutes I asked my audience tonight if that's true, and I'm no psychologist I'm this they're still waiting to figure out what's wrong with me, but I'm no psychologist But you go home and read about it You go home and read about it What it does to a child's mind? What it does to an adult's mind? Are we willing to rewire and to remap our minds at the expense of not being able to? To meditate upon his word Will that be a valid exchange when we look back on life's history? You'd say absolutely not and take it seriously I Have a friend who bought a flip phone recently you say oh, he's insane. I say that to people and they laugh I said you know what he believes John's 15 and 10 He's a believer in it He believes that because I have spoken these things My joy might remain in you and your joy might be full because I have spoken because I have revealed my word There are things that we can do in our life that we can stop the rewiring and the remapping of our minds and Instead set our minds on things above where Christ is seated to have our affections reworked to not get that feely that giddy feeling of Dopamine every time we view something for instant gratification and instead to get the gratification that comes from Christ's Word Settling in our hearts and bringing joy his joy that our joy might be complete That's my pet for the message now.

We'll go on John 15 and 11 then goes on to say I have told you We often speak about being born again unto a living hope he says here my joy might be in you That's the opportunity of believers the opportunity of believers to to realize that there's different ways to look at this that my joy might be in you To bring him joy To bring the very heart of God some joy As we live here below there was a there was a book I Had it at home. I kind of brought it and held it up Robert Boyd munger. I think it sold 10 million It was called my heart Christ's home.

I Don't know if it was good. It may have been a one of those kind of sappy Christian novels, but I had a great story in it and And and Robert munger he said, you know, he goes early in my life He had this like living parable that has always stuck with me all these years He said as though when I got saved the Lord said to me every morning I will meet you to study the Word of God every morning I will meet you in the living room and let's go over my word. Let's pour over it together This was Roberts parable that he told he said and it was it was glorious We started on a Monday and we sat down from 6 30 to 8 30 and we poured over his word and and he opened Unto me like he did on the road to Emmaus all the things concerning himself beginning at Moses and the prophets He said and on Tuesday there we were pouring through other parts of the offerings and and going on to the Exodus and and going through these These scriptures and it was it was joy untold he said and of course I had an appointment on Thursday Couldn't be there.

I got back on Friday. We did a little hint in Titus We went on through the week he goes and then one thing after another I stayed up late one night Binge-watching something couldn't make it the next morning He goes and then you know how work gets in the way and family gets in the way He goes in three weeks went by and I hadn't gone to meet him in the living room to look over the Word of God He goes and after three weeks I went by and I looked in the living room and I still saw him there and I said mind you This is a parable. I said Lord.

What are you still doing here? And the Lord said to him if you're not going to do it for your joy do it for mine sometimes we get so self-focused in life that everything we do is like going to Barnes & Noble in the Christian self-help section how to be a better this and how to be a better that how to improve this and And how to get rid of that and it's all focused around me Conferences about I know people who don't like youth conferences think it's all about what's God's will for your life God's will for your life is to be obsessed with God's will for his son That is it So once again not be so focused on self But to do it for the joy that would come to the Savior and so here he says that my joy might be in You and that your joy might be complete when we enjoy the the same thing Fellowship coming together to do what we'd like to do what he likes that is what Matthew 13 and 44 says it says that the the kingdom of heaven is not eating and Drinking But instead it is righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit There are things in this life that bring me joy because in many ways they're materialistic. They're physical There are things that I can latch on to things that I can appreciate but the things of Christ The things of Christ and the things of God that that we share in enjoyment together. That's what brings true joy That's what lets his joy Become mine He has joy in me for what I can do and he has joy in me that we enjoy the same thing together So crucial to enjoy it my grandfather.

His name was David Zutomayev here at the science school lesson I did a little lesson on him He died two years ago, and I used to go visit him every Tuesday night. We would sit in his living room My grandma is still alive. She's gonna be 97 this year, maybe 98.

I'm not sure and every Tuesday night. I would sit there and grandpa grandma's living room and they actually were concerned I was coming so often like I didn't have anything better to do and It was good. We would sit there and we would watch Bill O'Reilly together, you know, the no-spin zone This was years back five six years ago as you would know He's no longer on the air in case you didn't know And we would sit there and we would talk about things we would talk about his time and in the military We would talk about different things about work We did the same thing for business and and as those years went on he got sick and they put him in a home and When you would go to visit him, it was just at the end of his life it wasn't any a bit of a response that was there and I I Appreciated then that there had come a point in our lives where him and I there was this bond And we didn't really talk too much about my things.

We enjoyed a lot about him, but we enjoyed the same thing We enjoyed talking about the same thing we enjoyed going we laughed at the same thing and You know what? It endeared me just to being there Because the joy was in the same thing and I'm sure he had enjoyed it all his life talking about these Coins that he had and talking about these different military things that he had gone to but all this that his joy was now my joy and That seemed to complete this but here in the scripture that my joy might be in you and that your joy might be Complete we forget the idea of how this joy can be complete. How is it that joy remains in us? How do we get this? We know that the fruit of the Spirit the Holy Spirit is love is joy Is it not in Scripture that we read in? Romans 13 and I wrote down some of these verses to look up you can look up later Romans 14 and verse Romans 13 and 13 that the God of all hope would fill you with joy through the power of the Holy Spirit And we're often wondering how does this take place? if the Holy Spirit in Romans 5 is what sheds the love of God abroad in our hearts and If we're going to have the God of all hope fill us with joy through the power of the Holy Spirit I think it's Ephesians 5 that tells us there don't be drunk with wine, which typically brings joy I think wine is always a measure of joy and in the scriptures, but then Paul says this he says He says be filled with the Holy Spirit Singing making melody in your heart with psalms hymns and spiritual song I've often wondered how to be filled with the Holy Spirit, but I would have more joy and One of those questions you ask and it's kind of like a touchy subject. They don't people don't become too charismatic overnight you know Colossians 3 gives us the answer there because that psalms hymns and spiritual songs is a key and If Ephesians 5 says that that filled with the Holy Spirit Causes me to sing psalms hymns and spiritual songs to show my joy outwardly And Colossians 3 says this let the words of Christ dwell richly in you singing psalms hymns and spiritual song If you've wondered about what gives place to the Spirit in our lives It's letting the words of Christ dwell richly in us Letting his word have residence Permanent residence there as the scriptures would tell us so here that my joy might be in you and that your joy might be complete some things are sorrowful and The Apostle and John here in his gospel.

The Lord Jesus has mentioned that he talks about a woman When she brings a child into the world that that it's it's a sorrowful experience, but she forgets the sorrow For the joy that a that a child is born And people have used this illustration as one of the great illustrations of joy That somehow the Lord's able to take something that is sorrowful And it's not that he then all of a sudden turns it in he takes the same thing That was once sorrowful, and he makes it joyful Maybe ask my audience here Some things that have caused you grief whether it's been in assembly fellowship, whether it's been in your family If God can turn Christ into something joy if God can turn Calvary into something joyful If he can take the most sorrowful day on earth if he can take a day that that was aghast in just evil and and and those who had hatred in their hearts if God can take Calvary and make it the joy that was set before him Then we must have faith that we can offer to him a sorrow in our lives And just like the example that he gives in the chapter before that he would then take that sorrow And he would turn it into joy that his joy would then be complete That then we would enjoy what he was enjoying because he's able to take sorrows And he doesn't just use them in order to get to the joy, but if he turns the very sorrow into a joy it's almost something you'd say impossible and Yet it doesn't show that we're faithful instead allowing the Lord to do that to take something like that in our lives The context of everything here the context of this mess of this short verse When he goes through this is this That I have spoken these things unto you that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be Full replete that it might be crammed. It might be just packed full. It's the same word That's used for when they fulfilled scripture So the Lord has the same interest in fulfilling scripture as he does fulfilling joy in those who have believed the Word of God He wants to be one in the same his ministry there on earth was to fulfill scripture in his life His ministry in heaven is now to fulfill joy to make it replete I think the word is plenary to make it full crammed full of joy in our lives he has that ministry now because scripture is complete and Therefore it takes a whole Bible to make a whole Christian Christians can be complete filled with his joy and yet the context here is obedience Obedience because the verse that follows this this is my commandment that you love one another as I Have loved you Obedience to his commands results in joy, and I would ask my audience today to accept no substitutes Don't find your joy in some emotion that could be confused with indigestion that this joy that he speaks of Comes through me receiving his word and me longing to obey it To show that I have an obedience, you know And he mentioned this the most mentioned commandment in the New Testament that that you love one another When is it 13 times that we get that loving one another has always been the crux of Christianity Over all these years and it has partially fallen out of vogue because we believe we have to sum up the ability from somewhere within our Visceral part of our nature to love other people who are otherwise unlovable.

I Make this connection for you Love is Not to be a slave of our emotions But a servant of our wills our love towards one another Whether I look to some in the front all the way in the back I have people here who I am endeared to I have others we're working on it your love Does not have to be a slave to your emotions It is a servant to your will you will choose who you will love joy Joy is not a slave to your emotions Joy is a servant of your will you will choose this day whether or not you would like to be joyful Because Christ has made it possible What is up to you is whether or not you will obey I Was thinking as I was sitting here Maybe why Garneville is so fond to me is because this is where grandpa and grandma McCandless were And I was I was saying last night when we go to the hall I remember go visiting when my grandparents were building the house there my grandmother They were still putting the studs up and she was sweeping the floor It was still a plywood floor And if you knew my grandma Ruth you knew she cleaned like no one else and she cooked like no one else and I was remembering one time I could have only have been maybe eight or nine years old and She come to take care of us. You know, I bring my kids to the conference now my parents they went away without us grandma canless come and took care of us and I remember her staying in the house and when she come you knew you were getting the orders right what to do and David Andrew, I think I was nine Andrew was seven what we had to do Gramps didn't really matter too much he was playing checkers in the corner and Graham had us doing things that doing that and she had the broom, you know there we were in the kitchen you know with our little aprons on and and And I remember just getting mad all this cleaning for what? What was the point things were clean There was no dirt on the ground. I remember getting mad I was like I am not doing this anymore and put the broom down and I had a room downstairs We lived on a cul-de-sac and paint out I can I can remember like was yesterday getting to my room and I can remember her Coming down the stairs and I she had never actually given me a spanking.

We're just surprising I'm sure her kids got them but never I don't the grandkids and I remember she I think it was the only time ever saw her look emotional and Granted I don't know if the tears were part of the act or if they I assume they were real But she had tears in her eyes and she said David when you say that to grandma She goes it really hurts her and at that moment. I kid you not I would have said to her. Give me a toothbrush I will scrub the toilet Whatever you want.

I will do it. I'll clean from now until mom and dad get back I will do this why because somehow my disobedience I never thought of it as causing sorrow to someone who I knew loved me Someone I really knew I had no doubts that she loved me And so therefore causing sorrow to someone who loved me seemed to be the antithesis of life even at nine years old I don't know how long you've been saved one year five years nine years twelve years. I You know that That is what we started with here in this verse 10 If you keep my commandments you shall abide in my love Even as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love these things have I spoken unto you that my joy might Remain in you and that your joy might be complete.

This is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you You know in Matthew 25 There we speak about the master and what am I going to do? What has he given me to do Matthew 25 has that great parable about being given one coin five coin ten coins And and what will we do with him until he comes back? And and when he returns you go back and read that story that great story that we all quote and pair We always say we want to get to the end of life and have it be said well done good and faithful servant That's what we all want, but we stop there and the words that follow that are this therefore Enter into the joy of the Lord Therefore if we don't find his commandments joyful down here. What makes you think well, we will find them joyful up there If we don't believe that they will bring us joy now, are we calling God a liar? To be obedient without reserve To be obedient as we read the revealed Word of God. He has spoken That his joy might be in us and that our joy might be full What is the the great parable of the the treasure lost in the field? I know we we kind of love to use that and bring it up for the sake of teaching others about the Eschatology of Israel I won't use it in that way There in Matthew 13 as he goes out looking for the treasure and he finds it and he buries it again and he goes and He sells all that he has in order to get that treasure.

Why? The parable tells us it's because of joy It's because of joy and it tells me this that in this life whatever I have to sacrifice For his sake If I have to sell all that I have to get whatever little treasure is buried in that field Let me do it because there I'm told that that man did it and Christ validated his efforts He did it for joy Therefore I make sacrifices and I do all this in order that I will acknowledge he has spoken He wants his joy to be my joy for my joy to be full He wants me to choose joy today to choose it because the most joyful man who ever walked terra firma was his son and We can start where he started by hating and loving what he loved and we can end where he ended that one day he's gonna say well done and If it truly was well done, it would have been joyful here because it will most assuredly be joyful there