1. Grace Fellowship Church Pastor/Teacher Jim Rickard Thursday, June 3, 2010 www.GraceDoctrine.org

2. Doxology Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.— Amen.

3. Memory Verse John 15:13, “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”

4. John 15:11 Having the Joy of Jesus Christ, Part 3

5. Doctrine of Joy B. Definition

6. 1. Etymology: a. The Hebrew noun SIMCHAH means joy or gladness and is synonymous with the Greek word CHARA.

7. Psa 16:11, “You will make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures forever.”

8. Psa 119:111, “I have inherited Your testimonies forever, for they are the joy of my heart.”

9. Psa 149:5, “Let the godly ones exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds.”

10. The Hebrew word for “sing for joy” is RANAN, “To give a ringing cry, cries of joy, joyfully sing”.

11. Also the Hebrew noun RINNAH means a ringing cry: joy, joyful shout(ing) or joyful singing.

12. b. Greek noun - CHARA from the verb CHAIRO that means, “to rejoice, or be glad”. CHARA means, “joy, gladness, or happiness”.

13. c. Joseph Thayer defines the N. T. usage of CHARA as: joy, gladness, (the joy received from you, the cause or occasion of joy, or of persons who are one’s joy).

14. d. TDNT, Kittel, notes that the “eschatological significance of joy is connected with hope.”

15. Therefore it is part of your confident expectation of what God has waiting for you, Col 1:9-11.

16. 2. Joy is a system of thinking doctrine and is accompanied by enthusiasm for that doctrine. Joy is thinking not emoting (exaggerated emotions).

17. 3 John 1:4, “I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.”

18. 3. Joy is good thinking from Bible Doctrine in your soul, resulting in good emotional response to that thinking.

19. 4. This joy has a response which includes animation in the soul, enthusiasm, and exultation.

20. Exultation is a liveliness of the spiritual victories that will come to you and with these victories the proper and true Biblical elation as a response to doctrine.

21. 5. Joy must be defined as cognition. A system of thinking related to Bible doctrine from which we have a response. The emotion is not the joy, but the response to it.

22. 6. Joy is inner liveliness caused by response to metabolized Bible doctrine. Joy is animated thinking.

23. 7. Joy is the reality of the spiritual life in the thinking of your soul, related to Christian fellowship, because the purpose of that fellowship is learning BD. 1 John 1:3-4

24. 8. Joy begins in spiritual childhood with the deployment of the basic Problem Solving Devices.

25. When the believer has confident expectation (hope) in God’s plan, he attains the objective of joy.

26. 9. Joy is related to both the pleasure and exultation of possessing both an eternal and temporal relationship with God. +H is joy brought to completion.

27. 10. Joy is also the application of virtue and values in Occupation with Christ and rapport with God.

28. Rom 14:17, “For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.”

29. 1 Peter 1:8, “And though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory.”

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

31. Grace Fellowship Church Thursday, June 3, 2010 Tape # 10-062 Having the Joy of Jesus Christ, Part 2 Upper Room Discourse, Part 377 John 15:11; Ps 16:11; 119:111; 149:5; 1 John 1:3-4; 1 Peter 1:8 Grace Fellowship Church Thursday, June 3, 2010 Tape # 10-062 Having the Joy of Jesus Christ, Part 2 Upper Room Discourse, Part 377 John 15:11; Ps 16:11; 119:111; 149:5; 1 John 1:3-4; 1 Peter 1:8 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2010