The Happy God

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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When we share in the happiness of God, we share in the very pleasure that the Father has in the Son.

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0:00.0	October 6, the Happy God.
0:03.8	Sound doctrine is in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed that is happy God.
0:15.6	1 Timothy 1, 10, and 11.
0:18.6	A great part of God's glory is His happiness. It was inconceivable to the Apostle Paul that God
0:28.5	could be denied infinite joy and still be all-glorious. To be infinitely glorious was to be infinitely happy.
0:39.7	He used the phrase, the glory of the happy God,
0:44.4	because it is a glorious thing for God to be as happy as he is,
0:51.1	infinitely happy.
0:53.2	God's glory consists much in the fact that he is happy beyond our wildest
1:02.3	imagination. This is the gospel, the gospel of the glory of the happy God. That's a quote from the Bible.
1:12.6	It is good news that God is gloriously happy.
1:17.6	No one would want to spend eternity with an unhappy God.
1:21.6	If God is unhappy, then the goal of the gospel is not a happy goal,
1:31.1	and that means it would be no gospel at all.
1:37.9	But in fact, Jesus invites us to spend eternity with a happy God when he says,
1:40.2	enter into the joy of your master, Matthew 25, 23.
1:49.5	Jesus lived and died that His joy, God's joy, might be in us, and our joy might be full.
1:59.6	John 1511, 1713. Therefore, the gospel is the gospel of the glory of the happy God.
2:13.7	The happiness of God is first and foremost a happiness in His Son.
2:19.3	Thus, when we share in the happiness of God, we share in the very pleasure that the Father has in the Son.
2:27.3	This is why Jesus made the Father known to us.
2:32.3	At the end of His great prayer in John 17, he said to his father,
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