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Sermon Notes
November 16, 2008
Does Your Joy Need Help?
Part II
Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy:
for by faith ye stand.
II Corinthians 1:24


Have you ever wondered why so many out here don't get excited about what they learn from this Book?  I have!
Colossians 3:1-3: If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

A.  Seek and set our affection on things on this earth = HAPPINESS

B.  Seek and set our affection on things above = JOY
If "A" Christian: If "B" Christian:

More Help for Our Joy
I.  Rejoicing in Our Hope We should thank God for the assurance and confident expectations that we know are ours because of this Bible and rightly dividing showing us the Risen and Living Jesus Christ!

There was a time that we also had no hope!

But now... today - RIGHT NOW! We should "sorrow not" even as others which have no hope! This hope can actually change our mind - and change our lives!

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,
that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Romans 15:13