Joy: Responding to God’s Goodness

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Advent E3 — In the third week of Advent, we’re reflecting on joy. Joy’s not only a feeling based on circumstances but a rich biblical theme expressed in song, celebration, and even shouts of delight in all seasons of life. In the Hebrew Bible, words for joy appear most often in Psalms and describe communal feasts, temple offerings, and weddings. In these moments, joy is about remembering God’s goodness in the past and anticipating his future rescue. The New Testament continues this story, with Luke and Acts in particular overflowing with joy at the arrival of the Messiah, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and the resurrection of Jesus. In this episode, Jon and Tim find the theme of joy everywhere in Scripture, even before God’s work is ultimately finished.

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0:00.0	Hey Tim.
0:07.1	Hello, John.
0:07.9	Hi.
0:08.5	We are working through the Advent words.
0:12.3	I've really been enjoying going through these words.
0:15.1	I'm learning a lot.
0:17.1	It's been really fun.
0:17.9	So we went through Hope.
0:19.9	And then we looked at peace.
0:21.9	This is the first two.
0:22.9	First two.
0:23.8	And now we're going to look at joy in this conversation.
0:27.1	And then we'll look at love.
0:29.6	And with love.
0:30.4	Yes.
0:30.8	Hope, peace, joy, and love.
0:33.0	So again, going back over a millennia and a half, even earlier, different Christian church traditions
0:41.0	have been using the four weeks leading up to Christmas, we're at this period of waiting
0:48.7	for the advent of the Messiah. It's a ritual recreation of the period of waiting for God to send the Messiah
0:58.9	and the coming of Messiah is what the word Advent means coming. It's the same dynamic as what
1:06.1	Passover became in Jewish tradition. It's a way to recreate for your own family and friends,
1:13.2	the experience of going out of slavery in Egypt
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