Pew2You
Got Joy? Part II
Sunday, September 17, 2017
Pastor Phil Vance
Highlights:
GOD’S Joy is lasting and complete
God wants us to recognize our complete dependence on Him for everything! Without Him, we can do nothing!
We don’t have any true, remaining JOY apart from abiding/staying in Christ.
Jesus wants the Joy to remain and not leak out
Joy trumps adversity
You can choose what attitude you have in adversity!!
Instead of letting adversity get the best of your JOY, let JOY get the best of your adversity!
Practice Joy!
Joy creates unction
Discussion Questions:
God’s joy is lasting and complete. How have you seen the lasting and complete joy of the Lord in your relationship with Him?
There are many times throughout the day when we can choose joy. When have you chosen joy in the middle of adverse circumstances? How can you choose joy now in your life?
The joy of the Lord creates unction! It produces a sense of “I am going to do that!” Describe how the Lord is producing this motivation in your life now. Share why His true joy is lasting and motivating in your life.
Key Scriptures and Quotes:
-5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. 9 As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. 11 These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. John 15:5-11
-2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. James 1:2-4
-24 Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. John 16:24
-12 Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; 13 but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. 1 Peter 4:12-13
-4b … I am filled with comfort. I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation. 2 Corinthians 7:4b
-1 Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia: 2 that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their liberality. 3 For I bear witness that according to their ability, yes, and beyond their ability, they were freely willing, 4 imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. 5 And not only as we had hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and then to us by the will of God. 2 Corinthians 8:1-5
-2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2
Definitions:
Abides: to stay (in a given place, state, relation or expectancy)
Strong’s G3306
Withered: to desiccate (to dry up); by impl. To shrivel
Strong’s G3583
Desiccate: to remove the moisture from; lacking interest, passion, or energy
Joy: cheerfulness; i.e. calm delight
Strong’s G5479
Full: to make replete, i.e. (lit.) to cram (a net)
Strong’s G4137
Trials: a putting to proof (by experiment [of good], experience [of evil], solicitation, discipline or provocation); by impl. Adversity, to test
Strong’s G3986
Patience: cheerful (or hopeful) endurance, constancy
Strong’s G5281