Inexpressible Joy - August 11
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🗓️ 11 August 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
As we near the end of our week on joy, today we look at another aspect of the joy available to us in God, specifically how our joy could be so great that the Bible would call it inexpressible. May our hearts be opened to a greater measure of joy than we’ve yet experienced, and the wisdom and faith to hold on to that joy as our portion in God.
Our Scripture for today comes from 1 Peter 1:8-9, and today's worship is Isn’t He (This Jesus) by The Belonging Co. featuring Natalie Grant.
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| 0:00.0 | As we near the end of our week on Joy, today we look at another aspect of the |
| 0:09.2 | joy available to us in God, specifically how our joy could be so great that the Bible would call it |
| 0:15.8 | inexpressible. May our hearts be opened to a greater measure of joy than we've yet |
| 0:20.9 | experienced and the wisdom and faith to hold on to that joy as our portion |
| 0:25.8 | and God. |
| 0:26.8 | Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Our scripture today comes from 1st Peter 1 8 through 9 which reads |
| 0:47.0 | That you have not seen him you love him |
| 0:50.0 | They you do not now see him he believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory |
| 0:57.8 | Obtaining the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls. |
| 1:13.7 | 1st Peter 1-8 through 9 fills my heart with a longing to rejoice in ways that move the heart of my heavenly father. That scripture says, |
| 1:15.2 | that you have not seen him, you love him. |
| 1:17.7 | Though you do not now see him, you believe in him, |
| 1:20.8 | and rejoice with joy that's inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of |
| 1:26.0 | your faith, the salvation of your souls. |
| 1:30.5 | What does it look like to rejoice with joy that's inexpressible and filled with glory? |
| 1:35.7 | What would it be like to have our hearts so filled with praise that our lips can't |
| 1:41.0 | articulate the overwhelming goodness of God. |
| 1:45.0 | In the famous hymn, The Love of God, |
| 1:47.6 | Frederick M. Lehman wrote, |
| 1:49.6 | The love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell. It goes beyond the highest |
| 1:55.3 | star. It reaches to the lowest hell. We are designed to be continually odd by the wondrous works of our Heavenly Father. |
| 2:06.5 | So great is his love for us that all the ink and paper in the world couldn't adequately |
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