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🗓️ 27 May 2024
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How can Christians possess the full measure of joy that Jesus promises? In this episode, R.C. Sproul demonstrates that consistent joy and peace come from a consistent walk with Christ.
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0:00.0 | How constant is your joy? |
0:03.0 | Do you feel like it's a roller coaster ride? God. |
0:16.0 | These things I have spoken to you that my joy may remain in you and that your joy may be full. |
0:30.0 | These things I have spoken to you that. |
0:33.2 | Here we have the use of the subjunctive in the Greek |
0:36.3 | which states purpose. |
0:39.1 | To read it another way, it would go like this. |
0:41.7 | I have told you these things in order that my joy may remain in |
0:51.6 | you and that your joy may be full. |
0:59.0 | Two reasons Jesus has told this story. |
1:01.9 | Two reasons that he designates here. |
1:04.2 | The first one is that the joy that he provides for his people |
1:09.0 | may remain. |
1:11.8 | All this discussion about abiding, staying, and remain. All this discussion about abiding, staying and remaining, |
1:15.0 | abide in me, I abide in you. |
1:18.0 | Why? |
1:19.0 | So that your joy may abide. |
1:21.0 | So that there can be a consistency, that there can be a permanency, not a roller coaster ride, of mood shifts, you know, alternating states of joy and misery, which so often characterizes the life of the Christian. |
1:37.0 | Jesus is saying if you want consistency, then consistently abide in me and my joy will abide in you. |
1:50.0 | Again, you notice, my joy. Remember earlier in the fourth things chapter, Jesus talked about |
1:56.6 | peace. Peace I leave with you. Peace I give unto you. Peace I give unto you. |
2:04.0 | Not as the world give us, give I unto you. |
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