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Joy Rides verses Joy Roads
Let me state the fact: Christianity is a Joy Road NOT a joy ride.
A joy ride is a short lived experience that brings you temparory feelings of pleasure but often result in bitter anbd painful long term effects.
Defanition:
To use a vehicle that is most likely not yours to pass time by driving it on a random route.
Usually stealing the vehicle is part of the joyride.
Most joyrides involve some form of law-breaking such as speeding, wreckless endangerment etc.
Its fun for a while, then it hurts.
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This video is funny but it is a situation i see all the time as a pastor.
“God will not let his children sin succsesfulkly”
Notice those words; “The fleeting pleasures of sin”.
- Thts a joy ride.
And when God’s children sin, like the mother in trhe video,m God has to get out the belt.
people choose all sorts oif joy rides.
Getting drunk is a joy ride.
Getting high is a joy ride.
having sex wehen you are not married is a joy ride.
Stealing for many people is a joy ride.
All these things give people pleasure, but like Hebrews says: The pleasure is shortlived - and often comes with a belt at the end.
Ive known drunk people to die in a car or get raped.
Ive known drug uses to OD or go to jail.
Ive known fornicators to get STD’s or get pregnant.
And ibve known theves to get fired and loose all respect.
I want to turn you off seeking joy rides and onto Joy Roads.
Joy Roads
The difference bewteen a joy ride and a joy roads is simple: One is a persuit of happiness through sinful actions that ultimatly produces unspeakible suffering.
The other is a persuit of God through holiness that ultimatly produces unspeakible Joy.
Joy is an essencial to the christian life.
It is as much apart of the chrisan life as love and faith is.
God is not stingy with Joy, he wants to fill you with Joy.
Joy is an element of the Kingdom of God, like earth, and wind and fire, the kingdom oif God is:
So where do we find joy?
Well the secret to finding Joy in this life is to not go looking for it.
You dont find joy by looking for it, in fact - you dont find joy at all, it finds you:
When you seek God, joy finds you.
Joy Finds you when
Joy finds you when you appriciate that you are accepted in Christ and Loved.
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We think about a lot of things - we need to take throughts captive and think about Jesus.
Joy finds you when you are thanksful for God’s provision
did you know that coveting is the enemy of joy?
What is the secret of having Joy when you have seemingly nothing to be joyful about?
To be thankful for what the Lord has provided.
You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.'
You make a mistake.
If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.”
Charles Spurgeon
Joy finds us when we realise that the purpose of life is not to be happy but to be Holy
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sin-ache.
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