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SEVEN HAPPY PEOPLE
John 13:17
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John
13:17
If ye know these
things, happy are ye if ye do them.
Which
kind of Christian are you?
Humbly grateful or grumbly hateful?
Attitude determines altitude!
God
isn't here just to keep you out of trouble...He's here to get in trouble
with you! We can walk with God
and have a happier existence.
We're
too blessed to be stressed. It's
not right for the upright to be uptight!
Happiness is different than joy.
We can have the joy of the Lord in any circumstances and at all times.
It is our strength even when we are weak…it’s the bottom line that
gives our lives meaning and makes life worth living, because in the end, we
win!
Happiness is more temporary, because it is based on “happenstance” or
“happenings”. Certain
circumstances make us happy. So,
we often lift up “joy” as the thing to truly seek after.
Well,
that may be a valid point, but don’t we want to be happy?
We may not always be able to be happy, but don’t we want to be happy
often? More often than most
usually are? More than we have
been lately? Well?
If
certain circumstances lead us to be happy, it would be nice to know what
those circumstances are. Oh,
what’s that you say? We CAN know
the circumstances that lead to more happiness more often?!
Yes!
The Bible tells us how to be happy:
1. Happy Is The Man Whose Sins Are Forgiven.
Romans 4:7
Blessed
[happy] are they whose iniquities
are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Satan
tries to bind us to the past but Jesus frees us for the future!
Job
Behold, happy is
the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of
the Almighty:
Proverbs 28:14
Happy is the man
that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into
mischief.
2. Happy Is The Man Who Is Delighted More In The Word than in the
World.
What
Jesus SAYS is much more certain than what we may FEEL.
Psalm
119:16
I will delight
myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
God's
promises are not mottos to hang on the wall, they're checks to take to the
bank!
Proverbs 3:13
Happy is the man
that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
Psalm
1:1
Blessed is the man
that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of
sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
3. Happy Is The Man Who Keeps God's Commandments.
1
John 3:22
And whatsoever we
ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those
things that are pleasing in his sight.
Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no
vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
John
13:17
If ye know these
things, happy are ye if ye do them.
4. Happy Is The Man Who Dwells In The House Of The Lord.
Psalm
84:4
Blessed are they
that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
Psalm
144:15
Happy is that
people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the
Lord.
You
can glance at your problems, but you must GAZE at your Lord!
5. Happy Is The Man Who Waits On The Lord.
Isaiah 40:31
But they that wait
upon the Lord shall renew their strength
[enthusiasm, drive]; they shall
mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they
shall walk, and not faint.
When
the outlook is glum, the uplook is bright!
God
doesn't just want to give us the wings of a dove to fly away from our
problems, but the wings of eagles to soar above them!
6. Happy Is The Man Who Trusts The Lord.
When
you cannot trace God's hand...you can trust His heart!
When
you know your future is secure, you can focus on your present.
We
can trust he is with us even when it doesn't feel much like it.
Psalm
84:12
O Lord of hosts,
blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
But,
the Christian life isn’t just sit back and collect a heavenly welfare…it’s
work, it’s war…but it’s a happy life!
Psalm
128:2
For thou shalt eat
the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with
thee.
And
yet…
Proverbs 14:21
He that hath mercy
on the poor, happy is he.
7. Happy Is The Man Who Endures.
James
5:11
Behold, we count
them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen
the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Spurgeon said, "The suffering which you have now is just the black velvet
upon which the diamond of God's glory is going to be revealed."
James
1:12
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
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