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Intro
In the middle of sorrow, great and small, often times we forget that there is a joy that is always coming.
There are trial and tribulations, problems and persecutions, sadness, sorrow, weeping.
In this season of Advent when we light the candles of hope, peace, joy, and love we feel and hear story after story of hopelessness, chaos, sorrow, and hatred.
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Here is the good news.
No matter how bad it gets.
No matter what we have faced, are facing, or will face, there is a place we can find joy that never goes away.
It is always near at hand.
There is coming a day when joy is permanent and will never go away.
Today is not that day, but today we can find a piece of it.
And everyday we can find a piece of it.
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Today that’s what we are going to talk about.
How can we find a lasting joy?
The State of Joy
Ps 126:1-2
Restored
The nation and promise of Abraham.
Ge 22:17-18
As time went on they became a nation of slaves in captivity, oppressed and beaten down
400 years later they left Egypt stronger and richer that they ever were
In our lives we find ourselves enslaved by many things
In our lives when we trust in God and in His time, we are set free.... restored
The Path to Oppression
Ps 126:
The testimony to those who are not His people
He has done vs He is doing
We are filled — on the He has not the He is
We cannot rest on the past.
The reason Paul considers it loss, is because that’s what it is when we rest on our past glories, as great as they may be, they diminish and keep us bound.
Our job is always to press forward to the next glory.
If we do not we will find ourselves in a place where we pray
Prayer, Repent, Petition
Ps 126:
Recognize our return to captivity
Recognize that we are addressing YHWH
Let the answer come quickly…streams of Negev
The Answer and a Promise
Sowing with tears
The seed is so precious we don’t want to lose it.
The seed is all we are.
It us.
It is given with great passion.
Songs of joy.. back to verse 1
The seed bears fruit.
Conclusion
As I said already, and we have experienced in these days, sorrow surrounds us, we have trials of great troubles.
Joy seems difficult to find but it is promised.
We remember the great things the Lord has done for us but is we remember on thing is that he is always working always moving us towards the next glory.
The fastest path to joy is to carry these seeds, planting, and reaping.
If you want joy, you must plant.
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