That Your Joy May Be Full
Ultimately with R.C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | How constant is your joy? |
| 0:02.4 | Do you feel like it's a roller coaster ride? |
| 0:10.2 | These things I have spoken to you that my joy may remain in you and that your joy may be full. |
| 0:30.1 | These things I have spoken to you that. |
| 0:33.3 | Here we have the use of the subjunctive in the Greek, which states purpose. |
| 0:38.3 | To read it another way, it would go like this. |
| 0:41.3 | I have told you these things in order that my joy may remain in you and that your joy may be full. |
| 0:58.7 | Two reasons Jesus has told this story. |
| 1:01.9 | Two reasons that he designates here. |
| 1:03.8 | The first one is that the joy that he provides for his people may remain. |
| 1:11.4 | All this discussion about abiding, staying, and remaining. |
| 1:15.6 | Abide in me, I abide in you. |
| 1:17.9 | Why? |
| 1:18.5 | So that your joy may abide, so that there can be a consistency, |
| 1:23.7 | that there can be a permanency, not a roller coaster ride, of mood shifts, you know, alternating |
| 1:30.0 | states of joy and misery, which so often characterizes the life of the Christian. |
| 1:36.9 | Jesus is saying, if you want consistency, then consistently abide in me and my joy will abide in you. |
| 1:50.9 | Again, do you notice? |
| 1:52.4 | My joy. |
| 1:53.3 | Remember earlier in the 14th chapter, Jesus talked about peace. |
| 1:58.7 | Peace I leave with you. |
| 2:07.6 | Peace I give unto you. Not as the world give us, give I unto you. |
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