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Leading The Way Radio Podcast

Appropriating the Happiness That Is In You, Part 7

Leading The Way Radio Podcast

Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef

Religion, Ltw, Jesus, Mental Health, Holy Spirit, Theology, Bible Study, Bible, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Sermons, Leading The Way, Michael Youssef, Christianity, Preaching

4.9 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this 8-part series, Dr. Michael Youssef helps us discover the complexities and implications of Jesus’ profound Sermon on the Mount message—where Jesus shares the keys to happiness by giving us the Beatitudes and teaching us how to embody or appropriate them in our everyday lives. Preaching verse by verse, Dr. Youssef demonstrates how Jesus came to fulfill all that God taught His people in the Old Testament—showing us how to be salt and light, how to control our anger, and much more. He truly has given us all that we need to live a blessed life in Him!

Transcript

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Turn with me, please, to Matthew chapter 6, and you'll see how Jesus makes that question of choice

0:11.6

plain and simple, plain and simple. Four choices he gives us. They're all interdependent on each other. First choice,

0:24.8

verses 19 to 21. Matthew 6, Jesus gives us a choice between two investment banks. Which one

0:34.8

will you use? Secondly, in verses 22 and 23, Matthew 6, he gives us a choice between blindness and vision, which will you choose?

0:49.7

And then he builds up to the third stage, verse 24, there is a choice of masters.

0:56.1

It's a choice between two masters, which one would you choose?

1:01.0

Fourthly, and finally, the culmination in verses 25 to 34, he gives us a choice between two

1:09.1

ambitions in life. First, he gives us a choice between two ambitions in life.

1:11.6

First, he gives us a choice between two investment banks, where you invest your money.

1:21.6

In a time when people are wanting the government to do everything for them,

1:26.6

Jesus points the finger at us individually.

1:31.6

At a time when people want to spread the wealth, that means just simply take it from those

1:37.0

who worked for it and give it to those who don't want to work.

1:40.0

The Lord Jesus points his finger at us individually as believers. Now, beloved, you and I have a choice.

1:48.2

Where will invest our money? Where will invest? Listen to me, don't worry about the government.

1:55.5

Don't worry about the corporations. Don't worry about businesses. Don't worry about Wall Street. Just don't worry about

2:02.6

them. It's you. Where will you invest your money? In the local bank where they gave you

2:09.7

a quarter of a percent, sometimes actually it charged you money to keep your money. Or in the

2:15.5

Bank of Heaven, where you're earning 100-fold.

2:19.7

Will you invest everything in the stock market which goes up and down like a yo-yo

2:25.4

or in the safety of the Bank of Heaven?

2:29.8

Investing in some risky junk bonds that can make you lose your shirt or go to the high

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