Section 6
the worldly people have no sense, no conscious ness, of the fact that they have been carried away from the enjoyable Triune God.
The Triune God is for man's enjoyment. Nev ertheless, the fallen human race has no concept of this whatsoever; it has no sense concerning it at all. The people of the world are busy with marrying and giving in marriage, with buying and selling, with planting and building (Luke 17:27-28). They have no thought concerning God being their enjoyment, for they all have been drugged, stupefied. Therefore, in His long jour ney from Galilee to Jerusalem, the Lord touched this matter a few times. For example, in chap ter fourteen He told His disciples that they must hate the things of this generation. They even need to hate their own soul life, for they should hate anything that distracts them from the en joyment of Christ. In chapter seventeen the Lord comes to this point again when He speaks about the stupefied generation, which keeps God's peo ple away from their enjoyment of the divine in heritance. Before He touches this matter again in chapter eighteen, He unveils to us something else that concerns our enjoyment of the jubilee, and this is the persecution that comes from our opponent.