Wanna Be Happy (8 of 8)
Series: Psalms We Sing
Brad Whitt
Psalm 1
Speaker 1: You've got your Bibles with you now today. Turn with me one last time, here in the summer of 2019, to the Book of Psalms. We're concluding today our series of studies from the Psalms that we've entitled Psalms That Sing. And that brings us today, I guess you could say that the last shall be first and maybe we save the best for last, Psalm 1 today. And again finishing up Psalms That Sing. As you're finding your way there to Psalm 1, think about this past week. By far and away the most watched and reacted to video on Abilene's Facebook page over the last forever was VOICES of Mobile's presentation of Kirk Franklin's song, Want to Be Happy. Matter of fact, as of this past week, if you had gone on there and checked, you would see that it has over 11, catch this, 11 million views. It has been shared over 350,000 times and it has over 15,000 comments.
And I thought about that over the past week and I thought, I know it's a fun little catchy song and it's got a neat little tune, but it I asked a very simple but vitally important question. And so I guess it's so very popular because it expresses the desire that is at the core of us as human beings, and that is to be happy. According to researchers, today, the vast majority of Americans are not very happy. As a matter of fact, they've discovered that 70% of Americans are not happy with their jobs. 60% of Americans are not happy with their marriages. 67% of Americans are not happy with their lives, and that number has been steadily climbing since the 1990s, because everybody has a picture. They have an image in their mind of what it would take for them to be happy.
And for some people, it is owning a certain house or a special car or something else. For some, it is bringing in a special level of income. ''If I can just make this, then I'm going to be happy.'' For some, it is marrying a certain person and of course for others it's more ...
Series: Psalms We Sing
Brad Whitt
Psalm 1
Speaker 1: You've got your Bibles with you now today. Turn with me one last time, here in the summer of 2019, to the Book of Psalms. We're concluding today our series of studies from the Psalms that we've entitled Psalms That Sing. And that brings us today, I guess you could say that the last shall be first and maybe we save the best for last, Psalm 1 today. And again finishing up Psalms That Sing. As you're finding your way there to Psalm 1, think about this past week. By far and away the most watched and reacted to video on Abilene's Facebook page over the last forever was VOICES of Mobile's presentation of Kirk Franklin's song, Want to Be Happy. Matter of fact, as of this past week, if you had gone on there and checked, you would see that it has over 11, catch this, 11 million views. It has been shared over 350,000 times and it has over 15,000 comments.
And I thought about that over the past week and I thought, I know it's a fun little catchy song and it's got a neat little tune, but it I asked a very simple but vitally important question. And so I guess it's so very popular because it expresses the desire that is at the core of us as human beings, and that is to be happy. According to researchers, today, the vast majority of Americans are not very happy. As a matter of fact, they've discovered that 70% of Americans are not happy with their jobs. 60% of Americans are not happy with their marriages. 67% of Americans are not happy with their lives, and that number has been steadily climbing since the 1990s, because everybody has a picture. They have an image in their mind of what it would take for them to be happy.
And for some people, it is owning a certain house or a special car or something else. For some, it is bringing in a special level of income. ''If I can just make this, then I'm going to be happy.'' For some, it is marrying a certain person and of course for others it's more ...
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