Happiness
in life
I rejoice to be tonight... Happy .. . Roger
miller.."you can't roller skate..." but you can be happy if you've a
mind to"
Everybody wants to be happy...Snoopy said
"Happiness is a warm blanket...
We live in a time where people are very happy pleasure
concise... money time, and effort is spent trying to keep happy.
Riches
Have you thought to be rich would make
you happy (I have) A man that
knows he has enough is rich. More get more want Young rich man (Luke 18:20-25)
.. Rich farmer Jas
5:1-3 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come
upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted,
and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your
gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against
you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together
for the last days.
1Ti
6:17-19 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded,
nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all
things to enjoy; 18 That they do good,
that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to
communicate; 19 Laying up in store for
themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold
on eternal life.
More wealth we get the more we want... and If
have a lot then worry all the time how is being used or that someone will steal
it.
1
Timothy 6:5-10
Ps 37:16 A
little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
Ps 37:25
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken,
nor his seed begging bread.
Popularity -- Error of Coher--
Young people often hurt their lives rather than resist the pressure of their
peers. John Martin's story..... Debra S
Drugs
& alcohol
Hidden price tag. Man's son shot
him (north Ms.) Jacksons I'm grown now I
can haddle it... False happiness ... With each high there comes an equal low or
lower. Each time it takes more and more
just to feel good. Make you a man. NO!
Man in Memphis .... Russel girl...
As Popeye says, you can make your good times
naturally... games, fellowship..ect
Playing a game by oneself does not bring
happiness or pleasure.. horse shoes, tennis ect.
Laughter
- Jolly times
Seek everything to laugh and make merry.. Leaves an empty heart Pr 14:12 -13 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man,
but the end thereof are the ways of death.
13 ¶ Even
in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Happiness not in excitement Mountain climber .... free love ... one night
affairs .. car jumpers .. . ( boast of # of people went to bed with) Car
jumpers ect
(Young people look before marriage
.. sex is after marriage not before)
With every high produced by worldly
means there is an ezual low and it takes more and more to give a high each
time.
Where then is happiness???
It comes from within... To love and
to feel loved and to love
John 3:16 Ro 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us,
in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Christ is with in us ... he
will live within us if we will let him.
If Jesus Christ is within you, then you should be happy.
In acts 8:39 the Eunuch went away
rejoicing. The happiness of Christ is
one form of happiness that you will never thirst for again. it is lasting... Joh 4:14 But whosoever
drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water
that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into
everlasting life.
Happiness is living according to
God's word. Pr 29:18 ¶
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy
is he. God would know what it takes to make a happy life... He created
us.
Happy is he that seeketh the Lord
and finds him. Duet. 29:29
Christ said Mt 11:28-30 Come unto me,
all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me;
for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is
light.
Don't ret -- don't worry -- don't
tun to and fro seeking happiness ... be calm in thy soul; RED
SEA
Joh 14:27
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give
I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
A peace that cannot be gaken away ... a calm and
real peace even when others would find no happiness or peace.
Steven's stonning .. Acts 7:54-60
Are you poor?
You can be happy
Are you alone? you can be happy
You can be happy in times of trouble.
In prision you can be happy .. Peter was Paul was
1Jo 4:4 ¶
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he
that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Php 4:4
Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
In infirmatives you can be happy Paul was .. he
gloried in his infirmatives
1
Peter 4:12-16 & 19
Remember
Job Rom. 8:28
Christ is always with us and he always loves
us.
He has preapared a place for us, a home of in
eternity...
John
14:1-4
He stands at the door of our hearrts Knocking.
Story of little boy who heard his own heartbeat
and thought it was Christ knocking.
Rev.
3:19-20 Jesus is knocking will you let him in.
