REAL JOY

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REAL JOY

• PHILIPPIANS 312-21

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GEORGE FOREMAN
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A JOYLESS SOCIETY

• USUALLY HAS NEGATIVE NEWS
• NEVER HAS ENOUGH OF ANYTHING
• NEVER SATISFIED
• NEVER THANKFUL

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PHILIPPIANS

• KNOWING JESUS
• AND BEING LIKE HIM
• IS PURE JOY

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APOSTLE PAUL
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LUKE 818

• Therefore consider carefully how you listen.
  Whoever has will be given more whoever does not
  have, even what he thinks he has will be taken
  from him.

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THE BIBLE
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PHILIPPIANS 32

• Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil,
  those mutilators of the flesh.

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LEGALISM WILL ROB YOUR JOY

• IT IS NOT
• GODS WORD
• SOMEONE ELSES WORD THE WAY I SHOULD LIVE

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REAL JOY

• IT IS
• GODS WORD
• NOTHING
• - NOTHING
• THE WAY I SHOULD LIVE

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PHILIPPIANS 312-14

• Not that I have already obtained all this, or
  have already been made perfect, but I press on to
  take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took
  hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself
  yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do
  Forgetting what is behind and straining toward
  what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win
  the prize for which God has called me heavenward
  in Christ Jesus.

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MINDSET

• FORGET THE PAST
• DO NOT BASK IN IT
• DO NOT DWELL ON YOUR PAST ATTAINMENTS OR FAILURES
  

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SATAN

• IF HE REMINDS YOU OF YOUR PAST, YOU REMIND HIM
  OF THE FUTURE.

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DO YOU APPRECIATE GODS CALL?

• YOU DID NOT CHOSE HIM, HE CHOSE YOU
• YOU HAVE BECOME HIS CHILD
• YOU HAVE RECEIVED HIS GRACE

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PHILIPPIANS 315,16

• All of us who are mature should take such a view
  of things. And if on some point you think
  differently, that too God will make clear to you.
  Only let us live up to what we have already
  attained.

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• YESTERDAY IS THE PAST, TOMORROW IS THE FUTURE,
  AND TODAY IS A GIFT. THAT IS WHY THEY CALL IT THE
  PRESENT.

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PSALM 11824

• This is the day the LORD has made
• let us rejoice and be glad in it.

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JESUS