1. Grace Fellowship Church
Pastor/Teacher
Jim Rickard
Sunday, June 13, 2010
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2. John 15:11 Having the Joy of Jesus Christ!

3. Joy is based on the Word and Spirit functioning within your soul.

4. 1. Joy is thinking God's happiness in contrast to stimulated feelings, often confused as a status of human happiness.

5. 2. The spiritual life runs on divine power, never how you feel
2. The spiritual life runs on divine power, never how you feel. Even good emotion will not get you back into fellowship.

6. 3. Gal 5:22 tells us that Joy begins as the production / “fruit” of the Spirit. See also Rom 15:13

7. Rom 15:13, “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

8. 4. Joy and peace must be related to thinking, because your fellowship is with invisible God.

9. 5. The purpose of true Christian fellowship with God (the communication of Bible doctrine), is the completion of your joy. 1 John 1:4

10. 1 John 1:4, “And these things we write (Bible Doctrine) that our joy may be brought to completion.”

11. 6. The unbeliever cannot have joy, only the believer, because they do not receive the communication of God’s Word, John 15:11.

12. John 15:11, “These doctrines I have taught verbally to you all (disciples), in order that My joy might keep on being in you all, and your joy might be made full.”

13. 7. Joy based on +H is the peak of emotional response in life
7. Joy based on +H is the peak of emotional response in life. But even good emotional response is not the criterion for the spiritual life.

14. 8. Joy is perfect happiness which produces good emotion as an appreciator of that happiness. Emotional revolt of the soul is bad emotion. Col 1:10d-11

15. 9. Good emotions come from metabolized Bible doctrine in your soul, so that the emotions have something to appreciate which is good.

16. 10. We must be imitators of the Lord, not His personality, because that is role model arrogance, but the power He had within His soul from The Word and filling of the Holy Spirit. 1 Thes 1:6

17. 1 Thes 1:6, “You also became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the Word in much adversity associated with the joy of the Holy Spirit.”

18. 11. Circumstances are not the issue in Sharing the perfect Happiness of God. Phil 4:4

19. 12. Maximum Bible doctrine circulating in the stream of consciousness elicits the ultimate in good emotion. Phil 1:23-25

20. Grace Offering

21. Grace Fellowship Church Sunday, June 13, Tape # Having the Joy of Jesus Christ, Part 6 Upper Room Discourse, Part John 15:11; Gal 5:22; Phil 1:23-25: 4:4; Col 1:   James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2010