There's only one thing, one thing that legitimately should steal your joy.

What is it?

Sin, and it shouldn't steal it for very long because you immediately should what?

Confess that sin and rejoice in God's forgiveness.

Welcome to Grace to You with the Bible teaching of John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

On this Friday, perhaps wrapping up another work week, has you feeling, well, maybe not unhappy,

but not necessarily joyful either. Of course, you've probably faced many harder challenges, an accident, perhaps, or the loss of a job, or the death of a loved one.

And then especially, you may have wondered, what does it mean to rejoice in the Lord always?

What does that sort of joy look like? Is it a constant smile, a happy outlook? What?

Well, today on Grace to you, John MacArthur considers what scripture says about the issue of joy.

As you'll see, joy is a fundamental Christian attitude. It's one of the pillars of Christian character,

and that's the name of John's current series.

So with today's lesson, here's John.

We've talked about how the life of the church flows through certain attitudes,

spiritual attitudes, like faith and obedience and love and humility and unity and, of course, forgiveness.

And I want to talk about another one of those.

Turn to 1st Thessalonians chapter 5.

There would be a number of places in the scripture we could go to pick up this next

spiritual attitude that should characterize the church.

There could be a lot of scriptures.

In fact, most notably, the book of Philippians would be a place to go because it rings this

chime again and again.

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