Happiness Revisited
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
People wander down many pathways in pursuit of happiness—but can true happiness actually be attained? Alistair Begg seeks the answer by tracing David’s journey from deep despair to exultation. Listen to Truth For Life us as we conclude a study of Psalm 32.
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| 0:00.0 | The P. People wander down many pathways in pursuit of spiritual |
| 0:28.1 | happiness, but can real happiness even be attained? We'll look for the answer today on Truth for Life |
| 0:34.4 | weekend as we trace King David's journey from utter despair to exultation. |
| 0:40.2 | Alistair Beg is teaching from the closing verses of Psalm 32. |
| 0:49.0 | I don't know how many of you possess Constitution of the United States. I think a number of you probably do |
| 0:54.7 | I have mine with me and want to quote from it from the second paragraph. |
| 1:00.4 | We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, |
| 1:06.0 | that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, |
| 1:11.0 | that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of |
| 1:17.6 | happiness. The pursuit of happiness. It's often misquoted though to suggest that America is prepared to guarantee |
| 1:29.2 | happiness as an unalienable right, but it doesn't, it shouldn't, it can't. It guarantees |
| 1:38.7 | the pursuit of happiness as an unalienable right. And so it is that in the realm of academics |
| 1:47.7 | people with large brains and significant amounts of time, |
| 1:53.0 | analyze from a psychological and psychiatric perspective |
| 1:57.0 | and from a sociological perspective, |
| 1:59.0 | the nature of happiness itself. |
| 2:02.0 | And most of that work describes the pursuit of |
| 2:07.2 | happiness in terms of its futility. Now the reason we're here at happiness revisited if you like is because this |
| 2:16.2 | Sam this poem which has been the focus of our studies is upon a Sam a poem which has |
| 2:21.3 | begun with the word happiness itself. Happy is he whose |
| 2:24.9 | transgressions are forgiven. Happy is the man whose sin the Lord does not count |
| 2:29.6 | against him. And it is a poem written by a man who would have fitted in quite happily to the Shagrin |
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