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Ripe Life. C. Thomas Hilton
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isbn 9781426727153
Автор произведения C. Thomas Hilton
Жанр Религия: прочее
Серия Protestant Pulpit Exchange
Издательство Ingram
Because Jesus is full of joy from being in the presence of God and from being God, he wants us to be full of joy also. If it is a major travesty that every Sunday school and every sanctuary is not adorned with a smiling Jesus, it is a worse travesty that every person in Sunday school and every person in worship is not smiling, for a relationship to a joyful God through the joyful Jesus leads us to be joyful disciples.
Joy is a by-product of a relationship with God through Jesus Christ.
Our text quotes Jesus as saying, "I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete." Other translators refer to "complete joy," "perfect joy," and "your cup of joy will overflow."
Joy is a by-product of a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. The world does not give this relationship and this joy, and so the events of this world cannot take this relationship and this joy away. Now, that's an important point! Happiness comes and goes. Happiness may disappear with the next telephone call. Your loved one dies. Your X ray shows bad news. Your car needs repairs. Your stocks are worth nothing. Your C.D.'s which were insured by the federal government, are not. Sorry about that mistake. There goes your happiness. But your joy is based on a relationship to God through the joyful Jesus, and he will never be taken away. He is always there. "Jesus never fails, never never fails. I'm glad so glad, Jesus never fails."
I begin and end with Paul Tillich: "Is not the decision to be a Christian, a decision for the joy in God instead of the [happiness] of the world?" (The New Being, p. 144). I think so! I know so!
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