Sermon Tone Analysis

God’s will

Do you want to know God’s will for you?

Do you know God’s will, and God’s will for you, for us as a family?

First and foremost is salvation (2Pt3:9).

Impossible to have God’s will done in your life until God is in your life.

Then God makes His will known through the scripture and empowered by the Spirit so we can carry it out.

Sometimes the scripture is quiet clear on God’s will.

All men come to repentance (2Pt3:9)

God is not slow, not slack, he wants all to come to repentance, He wants all to be saved.

Some simple instructions with Application (1The5:16-18)

What are the instructions, the application here?

Even further specific instructions and reason too (1Pt2:15)

What are the results if we do the will of God?

OK, does not take rocket science to know God’s will in the above passages, and this series is not exhaustive in any way, but hopefully it is informative, encouraging, empowering and challenging for application as we Go through this series.

Tonight we are looking at God’s will for you to Rejoice always.

God wants us to rejoice always

Rejoice, its a command, its a verb it means: feel or show great joy or delight.

And doing what God desires, God’s will is good for us and in this case good for others too.

Not only are we to rejoice, we are to rejoice always.

Rejoice in life and all it has

Rejoice in your youth (Ecc11:9)

Rejoice in your work (Ecc3:12-13)

Your life is a gift from God, your work is a gift from God, and you will be held accountable for what you do with the gifts from God you are given.

So rejoice for all things that you have been given

Rejoice in your life and your wife (Ecc9:7-9; Ecc11:8)

Rejoice in all things given from God (1Tim6:17)

God’s gifts are given to be enjoyed, so in other words rejoice for God’s gifts!

And, rejoice responsibly (1Tim6:18-19)

What are the instructions here in (vv.18-19)? - be rich in good works, do good, be generous, be sharing, take hold of the eternal!

For that is life indeed

Before we can grasp taking hold of the eternal and enjoying that we have to know it and rejoice in our salvation.

Rejoice in our salvation

Rejoice in knowledge of your salvation (Lk10:20)

(expand on that, your name in the lambs book of life)

Rejoice in the peace you have because of your salvation (Rom14:17)

Joy in the Holy spirit that comes because the righteousness of God and peace of God given through the Holy Spirit as your entrance into the kingdom of God.

And, rejoice for it is a part of the fruit of the Spirit that you have because of your salvation (Gal5:22)

So, rejoice always, I think we get the point here, now the reason.

Our need to rejoice always

There are things that are joy killers, joy stealers but Joy is found in the Lord and is part of the fruit of the Spirit, sometimes joy comes in prayer or praise.

Anxiety can weigh us down, but a good word, rejoicing can make it glad (Pro12:25)

A glad heart, a rejoicing heart can raise a persons spirit up (Pro15:13) so feast on rejoicing (Pro15:15) for this life can be hard.

Joyful, rejoicing heart is good medicine (Pro17:22)

Oh hold on, I need to give you at least one of the scriptures above.

Rejoice, pray for spiritual strength

For the joy of the Lord is our strength, and great strength at that (Neh8:10)

Rejoice in what we believe so hope may abound (Rom15:13)

Rejoice, for, it can be contagious (2Cor2:3)

The Romans verse says

and as for contagious, well I reworded it but here it is

shared joy, contagious joy, so remember rejoice always!

How to rejoice always

God’s will made known through the scriptures so may we look at how to rejoice always as the bible shows.

Rejoice in the Lord

Specified Joy, repeated joy (Php4:4)

What are we to have joy in?

Why do you think, believe that?

Purposed joy (Ps21:1)

David was the king and he was speaking in 3rd person of himself, but we can speak in 1st person to God with purpose, What is the purpose here?

Gift of Joy (Ecc2:26)

Gift of the knowledge of joy, the wisdom of joy!

Source joy (Ps31:7)

What is the source of joy here?

- it is in his lovingkindness, in some versions it may say mercy, he knows our affliction, he knows our trouble, yes, he knows our sin, but yet He gives us mercy and lovingkindness, so what a great thing to rejoice in the source of our joy.

So, be full of Joy (Ps16:11)

In His presence there is fulness of joy, we can rejoice, show joy by following His path knowing that at his right hand are pleasures forever.

May the joy, rejoicing continue by applying some simple scriptural tools:

Read, feed on God’s Word daily (Ps1:1-3; Jer15:16)

Be blessed by feeding on God’s word daily, be careful who you hang out with and walk with.

Be a tree that bears fruit!

Jeremiah says it like this.

What does it say about God’s word here?

- Jeremiah ate them, and they became joy and delight!

Meditate on God’s Word (Jn15:11; 1Jn1:4)

Spoken to the apostles not just to have joy, but that their joy may be full!

We too when we feast on the Word of God can have our joy tank filled and overflowing.

The words of the apostles given as well as the words of Jesus given so you can have full and complete joy!

Sing praise, sing with joy to the Lord (Jm5:13; Ps71:23; Ps104:33-34)

we have much to be cheerful for, our salvation, our very life, so may we sing praises of joy to the Lord.

Ok, sing, shout for joy, sing from your very soul, from your heart because you have been redeemed, redeemed oh how I love to proclaim it, redeemed by the blood of the lamb . . .

you know how the song goes.

Oh wait there is more, are you feeling joy, is joy on your lips, is joy filling your heart?

For it is God’s will that you rejoice always, so let me keep going.

Don’t just sing today, sing everyday, as not only is it good today, it is good and pleasing everyday to the Lord and in the Lord!

Fellowship with one another who are filled with the same joy (2Cor7:13; Phm1:7)

Your joy, like Titus joy, can bring joy to others, so let your joy come out!

Refreshed in the Lord and word gets around and it can do what?

bring joy , much joy, and comfort in your love, because of your heart for one another!

Your joy can be a joy to others, so be joyful (1The2:19-20; 3Jn4)

Oh man, oh man, oh man what do you see here?

- Hope, joy, crown of exultation.

The people are our glory and joy.

- they were to Paul, just think about how we can be hope, joy and crown of exultation to others today!

(Encouragement slide - rejoice always 1The5_16)

It is the Lords will, the will of God for us to

Rejoice always (regardless of circumstance)

Rejoice in the Lord for he is the source of all joy

Rejoice in the Lord for he is the giver of all things in which to rejoice

Rejoice in the blessings given, both spiritual and physical

Yes, joy, never-ending, even rejoice in the hard times, the times of persecution as it says in (Mt5:10-12), for even in those times we can find inexpressible joy (1Pt1:6-9) The God of all comfort gives us hope, hope has been poured out by the Holy Spirit (Rom5:3-5)