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The Pursuit of Happiness
- Matthew 53
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What would it take to make you happy?
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Question Can I be happy even if circumstances
are not perfect?
- FACT
- Happiness is a CHOICE
- Happiness depends on choosing the right ATTITUDE.
- 1st Beatitude Blessed are the poor in spirit,
For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven (Matthew 53)
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Greatest sermon
- Blessed lit. happy. Refers to a fortunate
state as defined by Christ
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Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is
the kingdom of heaven.
- What does it not mean to be poor in spirit?
- What does it mean to be poor in spirit?
- Means to have an attitude of humility. not
thinking less of yourself it is thinking of
yourself LESS.
vs. 3
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Benefits of Humility1. It reduces STRESS
- When we dont have all the answers, a great
burden is lifted off our shoulders
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Wise sayings about Humility
- Nigerian Proverb One who asks never loses his
way. A wise man never knows all, only fools know
everything! - Chinese Proverb He who asks is a fool for 5
minutes. But he who does not ask remains a fool
forever!
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Benefit 2 Humility improves RELATIONSHIPS
- How many of us love to be around people who are
proud?
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3 keys to Right relationships
- 1. I am not always RIGHT
- 2. I can be WRONG
- 3. I am SORRY
- To survive a marriage and a quarrel use one of
the above statements and you will live!
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2 Chronicles 714
- If my people who are called by My name will
humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and
turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear
from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal
their land. - 4 steps to relate with God
- 1. Humble ourselves
- 2. Pray
- 3. Seek Gods face
- 4. Stop Sinning
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Benefit 3 Humility releases Gods Grace!
- James 46 God resists the proud, but gives
grace to the humble. - God gives us spiritual power strength to those
who depend on Him.
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Gods strength is perfected in weakness
- 2 Corinthians 127-10 Because of the
extravagance of those revelations, and so I
wouldn't get a big head, I was given the gift of
a handicap to keep me in constant touch with my
limitations. Satan's angel did his best to get me
down what he in fact did was push me to my
knees. No danger then of walking around high and
mighty! At first I didn't think of it as a gift,
and begged God to remove it. Three times I did
that, and then he told me, ?? My grace is
enough it's all you need. ? My strength comes
into its own in your weakness.?Once I heard that,
I was glad to let it happen. I quit focusing on
the handicap and began appreciating the gift. It
was a case of Christ's strength moving in on my
weakness. Now I take limitations in stride, and
with good cheer, these limitations that cut me
down to sizeabuse, accidents, opposition, bad
breaks. I just let Christ take over! And so the
weaker I get, the stronger I become.
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True or False?
- A. God helps those who can help themselves
- B. God helps those who realize they cant help
themselves - C. God helps those who think they can do
everything by themselves
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Matthew 182-4
- Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him
in the midst of them, 3 and said, Assuredly, I
say to you, unless you are converted and become
as little children, you will by no means enter
the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore whoever
humbles himself as this little child is the
greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
