Good News of Great Joy

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Good News of Great Joy
Luke 28-14
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• WARNING dont confuse joy with happiness!!
• Happiness
• 1. temporary feeling based on good happenings
  (things that occur by chance)
• 2. outer response to positive circumstances
  quickly changes

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• Joy
• It is divine. It is possessed and given only by
  God. It is the eternal meeting of our greatest
  need.
• It is a fruit of the Spirit.
• 3. It is not tied to circumstances or feelings
  present in trials.
• 4. Our faith in Jesus activates joy.
• 5. Rejoicing is worship.

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• It is no accident that the words joy and
  rejoice appear particularly where there is
  express mention of eschatological fulfillment in
  Christ, of being in Him, and of hope in Himthe
  whole New Testament message is about the
  proclamation of Gods saving work in Christ is a
  message of joy
• Theological Dictionary of the New Testament p.
  357.

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Good News of Great Joy

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Good News of Great Joy

• J esus
• O
• Y

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• Who is Jesus?
• for today in the city of David there has been
  born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord
• Savior- a deliverer who snatches someone from
  some terrible disaster
• For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save
  that which was lost. (Luke 1910)

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• Who is Jesus?
• for today in the city of David there has been
  born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord
• Christ- the Anointed One Greek for
  Messiah
• He said to them, But who do you say that I
  am? And Simon Peter answered and said, You are
  the Christ, the Son of the living God. (Matt.
  1616)

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• Who is Jesus?
• for today in the city of David there has been
  born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord
• Lord- Master, Owner, Majesty, Deity
• that at the name of Jesus every knee should
  bowand that every tongue should confess that
  Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the
  Father. (Phil. 211)

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Good News of Great Joy

• Joy is the flag that is flown from the castle of
  your heart when the King is in residence.
• (Unknown)

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• Other titles for Jesus
• Jesus- One Who Saves
• "She will bear a Son and you shall call His
  name Jesus, for He will save His people from
  their sins." (Matthew 121)

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• Other titles for Jesus
• For a child will be born to us, a son will be
  given to us
• And the government will rest on His shoulders
• And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor,
  Mighty God,
• Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 96)

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• Other titles for Jesus
• "Behold, the virgin shall be with child and
  shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name
  Immanuel," which translated means, "God with us."
  
• (Matthew 123)

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Good News of Great Joy

• J esus
• O
• Y ou

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• What are we like?
• All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of
  us has turned to his own way but the Lord has
  caused the iniquity of us all to fall upon Him.
  (Isaiah 536)

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• What are we like?
• There is none righteous, not even oneFor all
  have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
• (Rom. 310, 23)
• And you were dead in your trespasses and
  sinsons of disobediencechildren of wrath (Eph.
  21-3)

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• What gifts have we received
• from Jesus?
• Redemption- for sin
• In Him we have redemption through His blood,
  the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to
  the riches of His grace. (Ephesians 17)

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• What gifts have we received
• from Jesus?
• Redemption- for sin
• Propitiation- for Gods wrath
• and He Himself is the propitiation for our
  sins
• (1 John 22)

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• What gifts have we received
• from Jesus?
• Redemption- for sin
• Propitiation- for Gods wrath
• Reconciliation- for mans estrangement
• And not only this, but we also exult in God
  through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we
  have now received the reconciliation. (Romans
  511)

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• Why were the angels singing?
• Hark! the herald angels sing,
• Glory to the newborn King
• Peace on earth, and mercy mild
• God and sinners reconciled.
• By Charles Wesley

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Good News of Great Joy

• J esus
• O zero nothing in between
• Y ou

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• Has anything come between
• you and Jesus?
• These things I have spoken to you, that My joy
  may be in you, and that your joy may be made
  full.
• (John 1511)

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• Joy Stealers
• Unforgiveness ? bitterness
• Ungratefulness ? selfishness
• Unconfessed sin ? carnality
• Unyieldedness ? pride, anger
• Unmet expectations ? greed, disappointment,
  comparison, envy
• Worry ? anxiety, health issues
• Busyness ? exhaustion, frustration, shallowness

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• Rejoice in the Lord always again I will say
  rejoice!
• (Philippians 44)

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Joy to the World!

• Hymn written in 1719
• by Isaac Watts
• Source Psalm 98 interpreted through the NT

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• Psalm 984-6
• Shout joyfully to the Lord,
• all the earth
• Break forth and sing for joy
• and sing praises.
• Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre,
• With the lyre
• and the sound of melody.
• With trumpets
• and the sound of the horn
• Shout joyfully before the King,
• the Lord.

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Joy to the World!

• Joy to the world! the Lord is come
• Let earth receive her King
• Let every heart prepare Him room,
• And heavn and nature sing,
• And heavn and nature sing,
• And heavn, and heavn
• and nature sing.

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Joy to the World!

• Joy to the world! the Savior reigns
• Let men their songs employ,
• While fields and floods,
• Rocks, hills and plains,
• Repeat the sounding joy,
• Repeat the sounding joy,
• Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

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Joy to the World!

• No more let sin and sorrow grow,
• Nor thorns infest the ground.
• He comes to make His blessings flow
• Far as the curse if found,
• Far as the curse is found,
• Far as, far as the curse is found.

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Joy to the World!

• He rules the world with truth and grace
• And makes the nations prove
• The glories of His righteousness
• And wonders of His love,
• And wonders of His love,
• And wonders, and wonders
• of His love.

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