Luke 19, open your Bibles to Luke 19, and then put a marker at 2nd Corinthians 8.

That way you'll be able to flip over there very quickly, all right?

Let me also let you know, I want every life group in Gateway Church no matter which campus you're attending if you can if you're a life group leader and you can do this I want every life group to go through the blessed life.

Well I actually begin that next Sunday with that week of lessons.

So you've got a week to prepare here, you can pick up the material and the reason I want us all to go through it together is because I want us as a body to move together.

So everyone please get in a group for six weeks and we'll go through this curriculum together all right and at the end of this series

I'm going to announce a new initiative that I am so excited about that every person in Gateway Church could be involved in.

A new initiative and the elders and I and the pastor on staff

we're just so excited about this that God is spoken to us.

So I'll tell you that toward the end of the series

all right now I know you're in lute 19 but let me read you a scripture first and then

I'll tell you the title of this specific message. Acts chapter 20 verse 35

said this is Paul speaking in a message, remember the words of the Lord

Jesus that he said it is more blessed to give than receive. Remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he said it is more

blessed to give than receive. If you were here a few years ago I did a series on the beatitudes, blessed for the poor and spirit,

blessed for those who hung in thirst after God, blessed are the meek, and I told you that the Greek word for blessed is Macarius.

It means happy, happy. So I want you to understand that

Jesus said, listen to me, you will be happier, happier if you learn to give,

then simply by receiving.

So the first message in this series

is called the Happy Life.

All right?

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