A HAPPY LIFE

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A HAPPY LIFE

• 1 Peter 38-12

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What is happiness?

• Worlds definition
• Fame, fortune, glory self-fulfillment and
  self-satisfaction
• Must not confuse the pleasures of sin with real
  happiness
• Sin destroys happiness, Prov. 1315
• Gods definition, 1 Pet. 310-12 (Matt. 53-12)
• God wants our happiness As He defines it, Eccl.
  312-13 97-9

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What is happiness?

• State of mind attitude of heart (Prov. 237)
• More than emotion decision of the mind
• Christians happiness
• Right thinking about life
• Forgiveness of sins
• Trust the promises of God
• -Jno. 141, 27 1622, 33 2 Cor. 610-

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What is happiness?

• Build a happy life by building faith in God
• Set your hope on God, Heb. 135-6
• Learn happiness by trusting God, Phil.
  410-13
• Count your blessings, Eph. 13 (Phil. 44)

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Things of Earth do not Bring Lasting Happiness,
Eccl. 113 23

• Pleasure, Eccl. 21-2
• Sorrow in laughter, Prov. 1413
• Pleasure is passing, Heb. 1125 Lk. 1219
• Can distort ones view of life and death, Eccl.
  72-4

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Things of Earth do not Bring Lasting Happiness

• Possessions, Eccl. 24-11 (Lk.
  1215-21)
• Tends to isolate, 47-8
• No satisfactionmore anxiety, Eccl.
  510-12 1 Tim. 610
• Great possessions, yet great sorrow, Matt.
  1921-22

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Things of Earth do not Bring Lasting Happiness

• Wisdom, Eccl. 212-17
• Trusting our own wisdom is foolish, 1 Cor. 318
• Death still comes, 214
• Divine wisdom needed, 816-17 1 Cor. 121

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Things of Earth do not Bring Lasting Happiness

• Labor, Eccl. 218-23 (24)
• Whose shall it be? 218-19 (Lk. 1220)
• Elements of despair, 220 513-17
• Good, but not for ultimate happiness, 1 Ths.
  411-12

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Things of Earth do not Bring Lasting Happiness

• Success, Eccl. 44-6
• Often envied, 44
• While working to succeed we must learn to be
  content with what our labor provides,
  1 Tim. 66-8

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Things of Earth do not Bring Lasting Happiness

• Fulfilling desire, Eccl. 67-9
• Never satisfied when desire rules
• Our desires must be godly controlled by
  contented faith, Phil. 411-13

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Things Neededto be Happy in Life

• Fear obey God, Eccl. 1213 (Psa. 1281-2)
• Address sin in Gods way, Acts 241-42 1627,
  34
• Seek first the things of God, Matt. 633 (1 Pet.
  310-12)

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Things Needed to be Happy in Life

• Pray often, 1 Jno. 514 (Phil. 44-7)
• Count your blessings, 1 Tim.
  67-8
• Patient faith, Isa. 4027-31 (1 Pet. 57 Heb.
  135-6)