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YOUR JOY

Speaker: Pastor Keith Goullette
Theme: Church Life
Thesis: Joyful?
Scripture Text: II Corinthians 1:21-24 (next week II Corinthians 2:1-4)
I. Jesus - v. 21-24
II. Judicious - v. 23
III. Joy - v. 24

Scripture Readings

PSALM 40:2
He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.

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

EPHESIANS 1:13-14
In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.

GALATIANS 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

II TIMOTHY 2:19
Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness.”

SCRIPTURE TEXT—II CORINTHIANS 1:21-24
Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge. But I call God as witness to my soul, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth. Not that we lord it over your faith, but are workers with you for your joy; for in your faith you are standing firm.

Sermon length: 40:48