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UNTIL HE RETURNS BE FILLED WITH JOY

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I. JESUS’ PROMISES JOY FOR BELIEVERS

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John 16:22-24 “So it is with you: Now is your

time of grief, but I will see you again and you will

rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.

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In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I

tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you

ask in my name.

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Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask

and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.”

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II. THE POVERTY OF JOY IN THE LIVES

OF BELIEVERS

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If you have the joy of Jesus in your life, then you need to

notify your face!

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Garrison Keillor, “Some people think it’s difficult to be a Christian and to laugh, but I think it’s the other way around. God writes a lot of

comedy, it’s just that He has so many bad actors.”

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III.THE POWER OF JOY

Nehemiah 8:10-“The joy of the Lord is your

strength.”

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Strength

for adversity for difficult decisionsfor great opportunitiesfor great love for others for great service to othersfor living to God’s glory

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Martyn Lloyd-Jones-“a miserable Christian does not and obviously cannot glorify

the Lord Jesus Christ. Everybody else is miserable {i.e., in the world}, the world

makes people so.

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But if the Lord Jesus Christ has done what He claims to have done, and has come to suffer all that He suffered in this world, to the end that

this people might be made different,

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they are obviously to be a joyful people.”