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The body of Christ has a reputation for being a happy people. If you agree with that, may I please see your lights?

Mm-hmm. Yes. If you disagree with that, may I please see your lights?

Uh-huh.

So let me tell you what's going to be worrisome right now.

If somebody is already sad because we're going to study happy, that's how you know.

That's how you know. That's how you know.

If you and I do not find, at least in a default fashion, in between heartbreaks, some kind of happiness in Jesus Christ, we are going to migrate in the faith, if we're in the faith,

we're going to migrate one of two directions.

We're either going to become carnal or we are going to become curmudgions.

Which one do you want to be?

Because neither one is a good option.

So this is a Christian.

If the Christian in Christ does not know

anything of a happy heart in Jesus, what's going to happen? If that's off limits to us,

or we just like, have never even known to seek it in him.

What's going to happen is that we are either going to migrate toward becoming carnal

or we are going to migrate toward becoming curmudgins.

Don't think I'm not going to have you a Webster's definition of a curmudgeon in just a moment.

Anybody tired of the kermudgens taking all the press lately? Anybody know what I'm talking about?

Am I missing anything or is it? It's just like, I tell you, I wish some happier people every now and then we're representing the faith.

Anybody, would it just be terrible?

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