meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Leading The Way Radio Podcast

Happiness is in You, Part 2

Leading The Way Radio Podcast

Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef

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

4.9620 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

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.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Turn with me, please, to the Gospel of Matthew chapter 5, verse 4. Blessed, happy, fortunate.

0:10.7

And in the Greek is what? Macarius. Say it with me. Happy are those who mourned.

0:21.5

Now, at first glance, you've got to scratch your head and he shake your head and say, wait a minute, Michael.

0:27.3

How can that be?

0:29.3

How can be happy?

0:31.4

Are they unhappy?

0:32.2

It doesn't make sense.

0:33.8

First, I need to stop here and explain something.

0:38.4

The word mourning here, or grieving, is not, let me repeat this, it is not the kind of mourning

0:46.6

and grieving that we all experience when we lose our loved ones.

0:51.3

That's not what he's talking about.

0:52.5

I'm going to come to that in details.

0:54.8

It is not even the mourning over financial losses, and I know that can happen. It is not even

1:03.0

mourning over a loss of a relationship, a breakup of a relationship, in marriage or elsewhere.

1:10.0

We saw in the last message when he said,

1:12.6

Blessed, happy, Macarius are those who are poor in spirit. He's now talking about those

1:20.0

who don't pray and don't read the Bible or feel poor in the spirit. No, no, no. Blessed are

1:25.0

those who feel empty without Jesus. Blessed are they when they feel

1:30.5

that's so incapable of saving themselves. That is the first step to your blessing. These are blessed

1:38.1

because God gives them himself. God gives them His heaven. God gives them eternal joy. The second step in the superstructure,

1:50.6

we call the beatitudes. You're going to find that mourning is the extension of being poor in spirit.

1:59.5

It's the extension of being broken on the inside. Mourning takes

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.