The very beginning of the sermon on the Mount tells you the whole point of the

sermon on the Mount.

And that is that we should know real blessedness,

real happiness, real joy, real gladness,

genuine divine reward.

A special Christmas with family, maybe your high school graduation, or your wedding day,

or the first time you held

your son or daughter.

Wonderful memories, moments of real joy, but that's all they are, moments,

fleeting, not permanent.

There is a permanent kind of happiness, though, that can be yours.

John MacArthur helps you find it today, launching the series he calls True Happiness,

here on Grace to You.

So John, a new series today, and to introduce it,

address this issue of happiness for a second.

At first, his happiness really a goal that Christians should pursue, and second,

how are we doing?

Are most of us really finding True Happiness?

For most people, happiness is a superficial and shallow word, but it doesn't have to be.

And in the series that we're going to begin today, we're going to be looking at the

True Happiness, the real lasting deep down happiness.

In fact, that's the title of our series, True Happiness.

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