Happy and Holy (4 of 4)
Series: The Good Life
Ross Lester
Matthew 5
Intro:
Sanibonani, Dumelang, Goie More, Good Morning. Welcome to Week 4 of a 4-week series called The Good Life. It has been a chance to examine a theology of happiness, contentment and joy. In week one we looked at the ''why'' of happiness. God himself is happy and his eople have more reason for happiness than anyone else. It is quite disarming. We expect to find in the scriptures a bunch of commands against happiness, and yet there many, many instructions calling us to be glad in God.
In week two we looked at two primary areas where we are tempted to look for happiness. The one is who we are, and the other is what we have. We spoke of contentment in who we are and with what we have as the gospel key for happiness in those areas. In week three we looked at how we can find happiness even in the most mundane and routine of things. How we can make our schedules sacred again by living for the glory of God in everything we do.
This week we want to look at something that seems to be in opposition to happiness according to the popular way of thinking...Holy and devoted living. For some reason we think that a compromised, watered down pursuit of Christ will be our route to happiness, when the scriptures describes something totally different. Psalm 1 and Matthew 5 are both biblical manifestos of happiness. The blessed (or happy) life according to both of those texts live lives of sold out devotion to God that make little or no sense to the surrounding culture. The happy ones are outliers of devotion, and the fascinating thing is that modern research actually bears that out as true.
2014 Pew Research study showed that people who are more devoted to their religious belief show higher levels of satisfaction with life, are significantly more likely to describe themselves as very happy, and experience deeper connections with family, loved ones and friends. The interesting thing about this ...
Series: The Good Life
Ross Lester
Matthew 5
Intro:
Sanibonani, Dumelang, Goie More, Good Morning. Welcome to Week 4 of a 4-week series called The Good Life. It has been a chance to examine a theology of happiness, contentment and joy. In week one we looked at the ''why'' of happiness. God himself is happy and his eople have more reason for happiness than anyone else. It is quite disarming. We expect to find in the scriptures a bunch of commands against happiness, and yet there many, many instructions calling us to be glad in God.
In week two we looked at two primary areas where we are tempted to look for happiness. The one is who we are, and the other is what we have. We spoke of contentment in who we are and with what we have as the gospel key for happiness in those areas. In week three we looked at how we can find happiness even in the most mundane and routine of things. How we can make our schedules sacred again by living for the glory of God in everything we do.
This week we want to look at something that seems to be in opposition to happiness according to the popular way of thinking...Holy and devoted living. For some reason we think that a compromised, watered down pursuit of Christ will be our route to happiness, when the scriptures describes something totally different. Psalm 1 and Matthew 5 are both biblical manifestos of happiness. The blessed (or happy) life according to both of those texts live lives of sold out devotion to God that make little or no sense to the surrounding culture. The happy ones are outliers of devotion, and the fascinating thing is that modern research actually bears that out as true.
2014 Pew Research study showed that people who are more devoted to their religious belief show higher levels of satisfaction with life, are significantly more likely to describe themselves as very happy, and experience deeper connections with family, loved ones and friends. The interesting thing about this ...
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