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The Fellowship of Christ: Philippians 1:1-11 \\ June 25th, 2006 \\ \\
*I. **Intro \\ \\ *
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A.
People are hungry for joy PAUSE \\ \\
* 1.
**In 1957, Charles Shultz, creator of the famous Peanuts cartoons, unwittingly spawned an international cliché.
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* a.
**Schultz drew a cartoon with a character hugging snoopy with the final panel saying: \\ \\ *
* (1) **“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
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* b.
**Well, the world caught on to that line of thinking and there has been a dizzying flurry of “Happiness is ---“ quips.
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* c.
**Among the more likely sources of happiness: \\ \\ *
* (1) **One company in the United Kingdom one said: \\ \\ *
* (a) **Happiness is a warm-earpiece.
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* (2) **George Burns said, “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
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* (a) **Albert Schweitzer said: \\ \\ *
* i) **Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
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* d.
**These weak attempts at defining happiness~~~~ \\ \\ *
* (a) **Shows how far the world really is from understanding true joy and true happiness.
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* (b) **These attempts to find happiness are so far from the abundant joy Christ promises us.
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* 2.
**The world does not know true joy.
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* a.
**They may laugh, but their laughter ends in sorrow.
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* b.
**Proverbs 14:13 says, **Even in laughter the heart may be in pain,** **And the end of joy may be grief.**
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* c.
**Most of us would attest and agree to this.
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* (1) **As adults, most of us careened~~~~ \\ \\ *
* (a) **On the crazy train of life~~~~ \\ \\ *
* i) **And came to a crashing halt.
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* (2) **Only by God’s grace and in His mercy, \\ \\ *
* (a) **Were we able to climb off that train and follow Christ.
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**On a couple of occasions~~~~ \\ \\ *
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**I’ve had conversations with young people~~~~ \\ \\ *
* (1) **Who were in the final stages~~~~ \\ \\ *
* (a) **Of leaping with both feet~~~~ \\ \\ *
* i) **Into the dizzying passions of the world.
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* (2) **In each case, my heart cried out to them \\ \\ *
* (a) **“I was /in the /world!” \\ \\ *
* (b) **I left the world!
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* (c) **The world’s illusions have no lasting joy! \\ \\ *
* (3) **How tragic it was to watch each teenager walk right into the darkness I was so glad to have left.
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*TRANSITION: So where is joy to be found?
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**The answer is simple, in Christ alone.
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* B.
**Today we are going to examine the words of a man who found the secret to joy and peace.
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**The Apostle Paul wrote-down his secret for joy \\ \\ *
* a.
**Not while resting on a beach in Bermuda \\ \\ *
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**Not while talking on the coolest telephone \\ \\ *
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**But locked in a prison PAUSE \\ \\ *
* 2.
**Please turn in your Bibles to Philippians chapter 1. \\ \\ *
*II.
**Joy \\ \\ *
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**Joy is a common theme throughout this letter \\ \\ *
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**The root word for joy occurs 13 times in this book PAUSE \\ \\ *
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**Joy is a primary characteristic of the believer.
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* (a) **It is a fruit of the Spirit \\ \\ *
* (b) **It is a virtue \\ \\ *
* (c) **It is a command.
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* b.
**Jesus said, “These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.”
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* (1) **Jesus intends for us to have fullness of Joy \\ \\ *
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**And because of this~~~~ \\ \\ *
* (1) **Joy is a common theme throughout the New Testament~~~~ \\ \\ *
* (a) **The root word occurs 155 times.
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* (2) **REHASH: **Joy **a key theme** of scripture, and it is a key theme of this epistle.
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* B.
**Let’s start out by answering the question: What is joy? \\ \\ *
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**John MacArthur defines joy as: \\ \\ *
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** “The settled conviction that God sovereignly controls the events of life for believer’s good and his glory (Macarthur, 1).”
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**He goes on to say that it is: **“The deep and abiding confidence that, regardless of one’s circumstances in life, all is well between the believer and the Lord.
No matter what difficulty, pain, disappointment, failure, rejection, or challenge one is facing, genuine joy remains because of that well-being established by God’s grace in salvation (Mac, 10).”
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**Thus, true, lasting, eternal joy comes from being right with God.
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**God is the wellspring of joy \\ \\ *
* (1) **Isaiah 12:3 in the King James says: \\ \\ *
* (a) **Therefore with joy ye shall draw water from the wells of salvation.
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**The Book of Palms tells us that in God’s presence is fullness of Joy \\ \\ *
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**Psalm 16:11 is one of my favorite verses.
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* (1) **It explains, \\ \\ *
* (a) **Psalm 16:11 In Your presence is **/fullness of joy/**; In Your right hand there are /pleasures forever/.(NASB95)*
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**Nehemiah 8:10 tells us that the Joy of the Lord is to be our Strength \\ \\ *
* (1) **It says: \\ \\ *
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