You can't live the sermon on the mountain unless you know the king.

So Jesus taught His disciples, because they alone could live it out.

They alone could fill it out.

They alone could carry it out.

And you and I who know that same Christ can know the same blessing.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Someone once said, happiness is nothing more than good health and a poor memory.

Well, that's one view and ask 100 other people.

You may get 100 other definitions.

But there is only one source of true happiness, of deep joy that stays with you no matter what your circumstances are.

Today on Grace to You, John MacArthur shows you how to rest in the spiritual resources God provides

and to know the peace that goes beyond your ability to understand even when life turns upside down.

John's current study is called simply true happiness.

John starts today in Matthew chapter 5 and here he is with the lesson.

Now we have to get the basics before we can understand this absolutely fantastic sermon.

First of all, I want to set for you the context.

We have to get a biblical context.

By that I mean a biblical background.

Where are we in the Bible?

Where are we in the flow of God's revelation?

Where are we in God's plan of revealing His truth to man?

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