The Source of All Joy
PPT The Source of All Joy
Advent Week Three
December 13, 2020
Senior Pastor, Dr. Janet Cook
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Note: Unless otherwise indicated all scriptures are taken from the NKJV
The Source of Joy
Luke 1:41-45 “When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice she exclaimed: ‘Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!’” (Emphasis added.)
Joy – G21 –to leap, especially for joy, be (exceeding) glad, with exceeding joy, rejoice (greatly).
That Your Joy May Be Full
John 15:11-13 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. 11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. 12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.”
- Biblical Joy is relational
You are My Friends
John 15:14-17 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. 17 These things I command you, that you love one another.
- “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and your fruit should remain.”
Face to Face
2 John 1:12 “Having many things to write to you, I did not wish to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.”