Happiness is in You, Part 1

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Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef

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🗓️ 24 October 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In his eight-part series Happiness is in You, Dr. Youssef conducts a thorough study of the beatitudes and expounds on the eight superstructure steps of our relationships with Christ. In the beatitudes, Jesus shows us that happiness is not getting what we want, but being content with what we have. Happiness is not found in self-sufficiency, but in full dependence on God. Each beatitude builds on our need for God, for the very first beatitude lays the foundation for our relationship with our Savior. And as we move up the superstructure of the beatitudes, they together lead us to the deepest and richest happiness we can imagine.

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0:00.0	This is a message from leading the way with Dr. Michael Youssef.
0:04.3	We pray that it will encourage you in your walk of faith.
0:07.7	If you would like to learn more about Dr. Youssef or leading the way, please visit
0:12.4	ltw.org.
0:17.8	Now, in this series of messages, happiness is in you.
0:22.4	I want to show you that is actually Jesus who said that.
0:29.7	Happiness is in you.
0:32.8	You don't have to go looking for it.
0:34.6	It's in you.
0:36.4	When Jesus sat on that grassy knoll where I've been there
0:39.8	many times, and he began to teach, he was basically saying this. He was saying that happiness
0:48.4	is not an external condition that you need to work hard to get it, and the beatitudes is like a stepping
0:58.5	stairs going upward. It's a superstructure. This is not just little bits and pieces of,
1:04.3	you know, happy this, happy this. This is already structured in the mind of the Lord Jesus.
1:13.0	We're going to see this more and more in the next several messages. But in every one of those, Jesus is saying the secret to happiness
1:19.8	is not getting what you want. In fact, sometimes that leads to unhappiness, but it is
1:26.9	contented with what you have.
1:30.1	Turn with me, please, to Matthew chapter 5 and verse 3. Only one verse, Matthew 5, 3.
1:38.3	Happy, blessed, macarius. Can you say macarios with me? Macarius. That's what the Greek word is. Are the poor in spirit
1:48.5	for theirs as the kingdom of heaven. Jesus always turned the world upside down. Our culture says,
1:59.6	happy are you when you are aggressive and proactive, for you get your way.
2:06.4	Jesus said, no, the secret of happiness are in those who are broken on the inside.
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