I WOULD BE HAPPY IF

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IWOULDBEHAPPYIF
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Introduction

• Does God want me to be happy?
• Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in
  everything give thanks for this is the will of
  God in Christ Jesus for you.
  1 Thessalonians 516-18

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Introduction

• Does God want me to be happy?
• Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad
  in You Let such as love Your salvation say
  continually, the LORD be magnified!
  Psalm 4016

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Introduction

• Does God want me to be happy?
• For the same reason you also be glad and rejoice
  with me.
  Philippians 218
• Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say,
  rejoice! Philippians 44

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Introduction

• Why are so many unhappy?
• Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your
  life, what you will eat or what you will drink
  nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not
  life more than food and the body more than
  clothing? Matthew 625

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Introduction

• Why are so many unhappy?
• Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have
  learned in whatever state I am, to be content.
  Philippians 411

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Introduction

• A spiritual mind is a happy mind.
• Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by
  prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let
  your requests be made known to God.
  Philippians 46

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True Happiness Cannot Be Found

• In living to obtain things under the sun.
• Solomon
• Then I looked on all the works that my hands had
  done and on the labor in which I had toiled and
  indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind.
  There was no profit under the sun.
  Ecclesiastes 211

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True Happiness Cannot Be Found

• In living to obtain things under the sun.
• A certain rich man
• But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul
  will be required of you then whose will those
  things be which you have provided?
  Luke 1220

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True Happiness Cannot Be Found

• In living to obtain things under the sun.
• Wealthy Laodiceans
• Because you say, 'I am rich, have become
  wealthy, and have need of nothing' --and do not
  know that you are wretched, miserable, poor,
  blind, and naked. Revelation
  317

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True Happiness Cannot Be Found

• Material wealth can be the source of many
  sorrows.
• But those who desire to be rich fall into
  temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and
  harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and
  perdition. 1 Timothy 69

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True Happiness Cannot Be Found

• In seeking to be someone we are not.
• And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent
  in the ground. Look, there you have what is
  yours. Matthew 2525

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True Happiness Cannot Be Found

• Running here and there.
• So all the congregation lifted up their voices
  and cried, and the people wept that night... So
  they said to one another, Let us select a leader
  and return to Egypt.
  Numbers 141,14

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True Happiness Cannot Be Found

• In rebellion.
• But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many
  of my father's hired servants have bread enough
  and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
  Luke 1517

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True Happiness Cannot Be Found

• In rebellion.
• Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall
  enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the
  will of My Father in heaven.
  Matthew 721

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To Be Happy

• Have the right attitude and priorities.
• But seek first the kingdom of God and His
  righteousness, and all these things shall be
  added to you. Matthew 633

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To Be Happy

• Be at peace with God and others.
• And the peace of God, which surpasses all
  understanding, will guard your hearts and minds
  through Christ Jesus.
  Philippians 47

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To Be Happy

• Submit to Gods pattern.
• Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not
  greater than his master nor is he who is sent
  greater than he who sent him. If you know these
  things, blessed are you if you do them.
  John 1316,17

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To Be Happy

• Be content and grateful.
• Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have
  learned in whatever state I am, to be content I
  know how to be abased, and I know how to abound.
  Everywhere and in all things I have learned both
  to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and
  to suffer need.
  Philippians 411,12

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To Be Happy

• Trust God.
• I can do all things through Christ who
  strengthens me.
  Philippians 413

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To Be Happy
1 Peter 310-12 For He who would love life and
see good days, let him refrain his tongue from
evil, and his lips from speaking deceit. Let him
turn away from evil and do good let him seek
peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are
on the righteous, and His ears are open to their
prayers but the face of the Lord is against
those who do evil.
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Concluding Thoughts
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Concluding Thoughts