The Foundational Key for Living in Joy

00:00 hi my name is Sue Burdullis and I am
00:02 the daughter of the Most High who is the
00:06 most joyful person in the entire
00:08 universe do you know who I'm talking
00:12 about I'm talking about Jesus the one
00:15 who perfectly represented God our
00:18 Heavenly Father and the one who makes me
00:22 smile I gladly serve as the director of
00:25 the Camarillo Healing Rooms and tonight
00:28 we are in our second session of keys to
00:32 joy filled living and our session
00:35 tonight it's called knowing God which is
00:37 the foundational key to joy filled
00:40 living let us pray
00:42 father open our hearts to see you and
00:45 your son Jesus for who you truly are
00:48 you said Lord but the joy of the Lord is
00:53 our strength
00:55 so fill us up with your joy of fresh
00:58 strengthening us with your very nature
01:02 amen Roman numeral one is called knowing
01:07 God see Jesus's smile so take a look the
01:12 overhead and take a look at how Jesus is
01:15 smiling at us tonight and smiling at you
01:20 knowing God involves you and I seeing
01:23 his character as revealed in his son
01:26 Jesus Christ and when the most
01:28 distinguishing features of God's
01:31 character is his beautiful warm smile
01:36 that emanates truly from the joy that he
01:40 feels the joy that he feels about you
01:43 and the joy he feels about me if you
01:47 spend some time like I did last week
01:51 looking at Jesus smiling as he went
01:55 about doing good and healing all who are
01:59 pressed by the enemy like acts 10:38
02:02 tells us your perspective of God will be
02:07 transformed you'll see him as a glad God
02:10 happy God one who is happy
02:13 with you despite your weakness as you
02:16 are growing in him into the image of his
02:20 son Jesus Christ Psalm 100 commands us
02:25 to have a joyful heart and it to enter
02:28 into God's presence with joy proverbs
02:33 15:13 tells us that a joyful heart makes
02:37 a cheerful face and what does a cheerful
02:40 face do it smile where are you and I
02:46 gonna get a joyful heart or a cheerful
02:49 face
02:50 it's from knowing God it's from being
02:54 with God the one who is filled with joy
02:58 and the one who carries a smile upon his
03:02 face it comes from knowing God the one
03:05 who made us and cares for us the one who
03:08 is good and abounding and mercy and
03:11 faithfulness just like Psalm 100 tells
03:13 us as you begin to know these truths
03:16 with your mind of who God is and begin
03:18 to experience him in your life don't
03:21 forget one of the most important
03:24 expressions to keeping your mind's eye
03:27 and that that is the smile on Jesus's
03:32 face his smile will transform your life
03:36 feeling it with joy one of the things I
03:40 love about iPhones is I can put photo in
03:44 my iPhone that will pop up as soon as I
03:47 touch my iPhone how many know what I'm
03:50 talking about
03:51 you don't okay well I have a son and a
03:56 granddaughter and daughter law who live
03:58 in Nashville Tennessee they're the only
04:00 real close-knit family and they live at
04:04 a distance so I don't get to see him all
04:06 the time but I put their picture on my
04:10 iPhone so as soon as I touch it on the
04:13 lockscreen
04:14 their smiling faces appear and it causes
04:16 me to smile and bring joy to my heart
04:20 how much more if we have a mental image
04:25 of
04:26 god that every time that we turn to him
04:30 we see that smile and then that smile
04:34 causes us to smile and we feel the joy
04:38 that God has towards us and us
04:41 towards him you and I serve an invisible
04:45 God that we need to behold who he is and
04:49 what his face looks like we need to see
04:54 that picture in our minds eye of God
04:57 smiling so I want you to take a moment
05:00 right now and see Jesus smiling smiling
05:05 at you why why do I make such a big deal
05:10 about Jesus's smile his joyful heart
05:13 because this is one of the main points
05:15 of Psalm 100 before Jesus went to the
05:20 cross he shared what was on his heart to
05:23 his disciples at you and I right now we
05:26 are his disciples and John 15:11 said
05:29 the things I have spoken to you that my
05:32 joy may remain in you and that your joy
05:36 may be full
05:38 can you believe it God is genuinely
05:43 concerned that his joy would be in us
05:49 and that our joy would be made full in
05:53 him don't allow your image of God to be
05:58 tainted any longer by pictures movies
06:01 books sermons that have mainly portrayed
06:05 Jesus or God with a serious sombre
06:09 looking face but rather have your image
06:12 formed by the truth of God's word of who
06:16 he is
06:17 Hebrews 1:9 says your God has anointed
06:21 you that's Jesus with the oil of
06:24 gladness more than your companions in
06:27 other words Jesus who perfectly
06:30 represented your heavenly Father was the
06:33 most joyful person in the entire
06:35 universe more joyful than any
06:40 when you have ever ever met this means
06:43 that Jesus smiled a lot
06:46 and let you in on a secret he you would
06:50 love actually hanging out with him
06:56 pictured Jesus now with a warm friendly
07:00 smile welcome you welcoming you into his
07:04 home his heart the picture on the
07:08 overhead will help you with this perhaps
07:12 you feel like the prodigal son unsure of
07:14 his response because of your wayward
07:16 living how on and how everyone else has
07:21 responded to you or perhaps you are
07:25 unsure of his response because of a
07:27 mindset that has held you captive to a
07:30 Jesus who will point out your faults and
07:32 condemn you because you didn't get
07:34 everything right so you hesitate
07:37 approaching him as Jesus sees your
07:40 desire to truly know him he takes the
07:44 first move and he runs towards you with
07:48 open arms to embrace you he gives you
07:51 that beer like hug and he has a smile
07:55 from ear to ear welcoming you into his
08:01 heart o course sooo this seems way too
08:05 good to be true but it's not it is -
08:10 this is who God is this is your king
08:15 this is your father God your heavenly
08:20 Father who is perfectly represented by
08:23 Jesus Christ as he walked here on this
08:27 earth smiled and he's smiling at you
08:31 right now Jesus did not reject anyone
08:35 who came to him with their needs Jesus
08:40 he demonstrated over and over and over
08:44 and over again how truly good our God is
08:49 some 100 issues 7 commands
08:53 with one convince him and being
08:56 foundational to all the others and that
09:00 is knowing God and that's our topic for
09:03 tonight's discussion knowing God as he
09:07 truly is is vital for our life the life
09:11 that God intends for you to live a life
09:14 filled with genuine joy the joy of God
09:18 himself as you see God is clearly
09:21 represented in his son Jesus Christ the
09:24 burning desire of your heart will be to
09:27 enter in his presence with joyful shouts
09:30 to serve Him with gladness and come
09:33 before his presence with exuberant
09:36 singing just like Psalm 100 instructs
09:39 expressions of thanksgiving and praise
09:41 and blessing his name will not be a duty
09:44 for you to perform but be a natural
09:47 expression of your real delight in him
09:50 why because you're getting to now more
09:53 and more who your God is who your good
09:57 King and your good heavenly father what
09:59 he is like and you just can't help but
10:03 to praise and to thank him desiring to
10:06 spend your whole entire life serving and
10:09 honoring him what the joyful heart for
10:13 some of you it might be a hard to
10:15 imagine to enter into God's presence
10:17 like Psalm 100 instructions with gleeful
10:20 shouts of joy and joyful singing but
10:24 take a moment right now to imagine a
10:26 place that you always have dreamt of
10:29 going to here on this planet Earth for
10:32 some it might be a place like Disneyland
10:35 Magic Kingdom for others of you it might
10:39 be the outdoors an ocean a lake the
10:42 mountains for others of you it might be
10:45 hanging out with family and friends as
10:48 you begin to make your plans to go to
10:51 this place of your dreams anticipation
10:54 and excitement will propel you in your
10:58 preparations buying special clothes
11:01 bringing along special treats all the
11:05 fun discussions you get
11:07 half maybe getting a special haircut
11:10 nails trimmed polish whatever it might
11:14 be
11:15 I'll never forget when I was
11:16 homeschooling our two children and we
11:19 wanted them to experience what they were
11:21 reading about in their history books and
11:24 so we decided to take the trip of our
11:27 lifetime and that was to the east coast
11:31 where the founding father some 200 years
11:34 prior had founded America Wow to
11:39 actually visit these places our family
11:42 up until that point in time had never
11:44 flown on an airplane but we felt it was
11:48 well worth it to fly there saving our
11:51 money to go I spent one year in
11:54 preparation of finding out like the the
11:59 best but cheapest places to stay and
12:02 where we could visit each one of our
12:05 family members got to choose like the
12:08 place they wanted to go because I love
12:10 the outdoors I chose Niagara Falls and
12:13 nothing to do with the founding fathers
12:16 my son wanted to see where the Wright
12:20 brothers where they had made their first
12:22 airplane my daughter of course was
12:25 chocolate she wanted to visit the
12:28 Chocolate Factory because she loves
12:30 chocolate
12:31 Ken he wanted to visit family and
12:34 friends so we went on our trip each one
12:38 of us were so thankful to go on the trip
12:41 that the trip and all the preparation
12:45 preparations that went into it it was an
12:48 atmosphere of joy we were really
12:51 breathing in the joy as I reflected on
12:56 this trip and many other trips that I've
12:59 taken throughout the world I realized
13:01 that God wants us to be more excited
13:04 about entering into his presence and
13:07 serving him then we would be entering in
13:11 to any place here on planet earth
13:15 although we no longer are called to
13:18 enter into the gates in court seven
13:20 we temple like during Old Testament
13:22 times the heavily needy temple where God
13:26 dwells still exists and God invites you
13:30 like he did Apostle Paul in John 4 he
13:34 says come up here and do you know when
13:38 John what John saw when he went up he
13:41 saw a throne set in heaven and God
13:45 sitting on the throne and you get it
13:48 enter into this heavenly temple as you
13:50 worship Him in spirit and in truth
13:55 take a good read of revelations for this
13:59 week and you will see sights you have
14:02 never seen here on planet Earth and you
14:05 can go there in the spirit and have a
14:08 wonderful time as you worship your
14:10 joyful king you will see him smiling at
14:14 your smiling at you your spirit will be
14:17 filled with joy and you will find
14:20 yourself smiling back at him your spirit
14:23 will mirror his spirit did you know that
14:27 a cry rises up from the heart of God
14:29 beckoning you like revelation 4 says
14:33 come up here and in Psalm 104 he says
14:37 enter into his gates with Thanksgiving
14:41 and his courts with praise once you have
14:44 tasted and see the goodness because you
14:48 chose to enter into his presence the cry
14:51 of kings David's heart will be upon your
14:54 heart psalm 27:4 one thing I have
14:58 desired of the Lord that will I seek
15:00 that I may dwell in the house of the
15:03 Lord all the days of my life to behold
15:06 the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in
15:09 his temple why would this become the cry
15:12 of your heart because in God's presence
15:16 is the fullness of joy and at his right
15:19 hand that's where Jesus sits and where
15:22 you and I sit in Jesus there are
15:25 pleasures forevermore Psalm 16:11 you
15:31 were created not only to know God
15:34 but to feel God to experience genuine
15:38 pleasures that originated from God
15:41 pleasures that far outweigh anything
15:44 this world can offer so as we're going
15:49 to take a look right now at the
15:52 structure of Psalm 100 and you'll
15:55 clearly see that the primary key to
15:59 genuine joy filled living as a believer
16:01 in Christ is knowing God let's all
16:06 declare this together I have divided up
16:08 it up into four stanzas with a space
16:13 between the stanzas
16:16 so let's why don't you saw Stan and will
16:18 declare Psalm 100 together make a joyful
16:23 shout to the Lord all you lands serve
16:26 the Lord with gladness come before his
16:30 presence with joyful singing know that
16:33 the Lord he is God it is he who made us
16:36 and not we ourselves we are his people
16:40 and the Sheep of his pasture enter into
16:43 his gates with Thanksgiving and into his
16:46 courts with praise be thankful to him
16:49 and bless His name for the Lord is God
16:53 good is God to his mercy is everlasting
16:57 and his truth faithfulness endures to
17:01 all generations you can be seated okay
17:05 so Psalm 100 has four stanzas so we're
17:10 gonna take a look at these stanzas okay
17:14 and we'll see here on the side this
17:19 verses 1 & 2 or stanzas stanza 1 and so
17:26 I'll put a 1 by there and verse 4 is
17:30 stanza 3 and then we have verse 3 which
17:38 is stanza 2 and verse 5 which is stanza
17:44 4 okay
17:47 and as we take a look at stanza one
17:51 we're gonna see that there are three
17:55 actions commands okay so let's see here
18:06 there's three action commands we have a
18:10 joyful shout okay we have serving the
18:16 Lord with gladness and then we have the
18:21 joyful singing taking place in a company
18:26 each action you see the attitude or the
18:30 feeling of joy being expressed and so
18:35 I'm going to go ahead and shade that in
18:37 each one of these actions with yellow
18:40 because each one of these actions need
18:44 to be filled with the presence of who
18:48 God is and he's a joyful God amen so
18:52 there we have three actions and three
18:55 expressions of joy now stands at two if
19:02 we take a look at stands at two we have
19:05 one action only being asked of us one
19:08 command and that is to know we're called
19:12 to note three truths about God okay
19:16 we're called to know and let me just go
19:19 ahead I'll shade the truths in with
19:21 purple we're called to know that the
19:24 Lord he is God we're called to know that
19:29 it is he who made us we are called to
19:33 know that we are his people and I'm just
19:38 gonna do that one we are his people and
19:41 and then we're called to know that we
19:44 are the Sheep of his pasture and then it
19:48 stands at three once again it's very
19:51 similar to stanza one we have some
19:55 actions here we're called to enter in
20:00 to his gates with Thanksgiving so I
20:04 could actually just do that whole thing
20:06 into his gates with Thanksgiving
20:08 Thanksgiving the underlying tone of that
20:13 is gladness you know when you're
20:15 thankful and then we have the courts
20:19 with praise that's part of entering into
20:21 his gates with Thanksgiving I've got it
20:24 I didn't turn off my message thing sorry
20:28 about that didn't remember that and then
20:33 we're called to be thankful to him
20:36 whoops you know what that just did just
20:41 second on that there we go
20:43 then we're called to be thankful to him
20:48 and then were called to bless his name
20:52 and each one of these three actions are
20:58 filled once again
21:00 with the attitude or the feeling of joy
21:05 so I'm going to fill these in then with
21:09 the light of Jesus Christ the joy of
21:13 Jesus so every time we do these actions
21:17 if we don't have the joy accompanying it
21:21 it really isn't very pleasing to God
21:24 okay and then in this fourth stanza we
21:30 have this word here and let me just
21:35 circle the word we have this word for
21:40 let's eat here we have this word for and
21:48 what this word for instead of for we
21:51 could actually put in because like why
21:55 would we want to enter in to God's gates
21:57 with Thanksgiving why would we want to
22:00 be thankful to him why would we want to
22:02 bless His name for because the Lord is
22:06 good his mercy is everlasting his truth
22:09 to all generations so we're given here
22:12 then three
22:14 reasons why or three truths to know
22:17 about God we're called to know the truth
22:20 that the Lord is good we're called to
22:25 know that his mercy is everlasting and
22:28 we're called to know that his truth or
22:31 faithfulness endures to all generations
22:33 were called to know know three things
22:37 about the Lord so I'm going to just
22:44 write up here why are we called to do
22:48 there's these actions there's seven
22:50 actions if we count them we're called to
22:53 make a joyful shout we're called to
22:56 serve the Lord with gladness we're
22:58 called to come in with joyful singing
23:00 we're called to know the Lord we call to
23:02 enter his gates be thankful bless his
23:04 name and then were given in stanza two
23:08 and stanza for the reasons why we're
23:14 called to do this now stanza two begins
23:21 with the word know that the Lord he is
23:25 God as he who made us we're as people
23:27 the Sheep of his pasture it calls us to
23:29 know three things about the Lord we
23:33 could say the word here you know why
23:38 should we make a joyful shout serve the
23:40 Lord with gladness come in with joyful
23:42 singing why should we do that because we
23:50 know that the Lord is good and the same
23:53 thing here because okay so basically we
24:01 have then and I'll just do this and on
24:08 stands a1 and stands at three we have
24:14 joy filled acts that were called to do
24:21 okay joy filled Acts and the reason why
24:25 we're called to have these joy fill
24:28 acts or actions is because we know some
24:34 truths about who God is okay we and we
24:39 call we know seven things from Psalm 100
24:43 and in the rest of the Bible we had know
24:46 a lot of other truths about God okay
24:50 and the more we know truths about who
24:56 God is the more we will actually feel
25:02 joy and the more we feel joy the more we
25:06 will actually want to do what he's
25:09 called us to do with a heart full of joy
25:12 does that make sense you guys okay okay
25:16 so we're gonna close that out and in
25:21 that part of it okay so we're gonna go
25:26 on to Roman numeral three on your
25:28 handout knowing and enjoying God so we
25:35 saw in that structure that I just showed
25:38 you there's things to know but instance
25:42 of one and three there's things that we
25:44 get to enjoy about God so some one
25:48 hundred it's a call to worship but it's
25:51 not just a call to worship within the
25:53 four walls of the church because
25:56 worshiping God is to be a lifestyle it's
25:59 serving him with gladness wherever we
26:02 are and we see this in Colossians 3:16
26:05 through 17 that the word of Christ dwell
26:09 in you richly in all wisdom teaching and
26:12 admonishing one another in Psalms and
26:14 hymns and spiritual songs singing with
26:17 grace or thanks in your hearts to the
26:19 Lord and whatever you do in word or deed
26:23 do all in the name the Lord giving
26:26 thanks to God the Father through him you
26:29 are called to bless the Lord at all
26:31 times doing his pleasure serving him
26:36 with gladness in Psalm 103 verse 21
26:40 there was
26:41 very interesting scripture at the very
26:43 end and it said to the Lord all you his
26:46 house you ministers of his who do his
26:49 pleasure hosts actually refers to the
26:53 army of the Lord the servants of the
26:55 Lord and you guys are really part not of
26:59 the heavenly hosts but the earthly hosts
27:02 their earthly army and we're called to
27:05 do God's pleasure Psalm 102 says serve
27:12 the Lord with gladness serving God in
27:17 all of life with a joyful heart stems
27:20 from truly knowing who God is from the
27:24 structure of Psalm 100 you can clearly
27:26 see the foundational key or the main key
27:30 the primary key for joy filled living is
27:33 the essence of our title for Psalm 100
27:38 which is knowing God I turned that off
27:42 honey the basis for you knowing God is
27:46 he truly desires to be known is through
27:49 the word of God and by the Holy Spirit
27:52 the more you know God the more genuine
27:55 joy you will feel and the more joy you
27:58 feel the more you'll be inclined to
28:01 follow God's commands and psalm would
28:03 100 which is basically God's
28:06 prescription for joy filled living Psalm
28:10 100 beckons you to know God and to enjoy
28:15 God if knowing the truth of who God is
28:19 is it being key to joy filled living in
28:23 the Lord what do you think blocks you
28:26 from genuinely enjoying God say a46
28:32 and this question it says my people are
28:35 destroyed for lack of knowledge if
28:39 you're not enjoying God and therefore
28:42 not enjoying the life God has given to
28:44 you that it comes basically because of
28:48 lack of knowledge of who God truly is
28:53 and that's one of the Satan's primary
28:55 things that he did in the garden of
28:57 Garden of Eden to Adam and Eve he
29:00 clouded their vision of who God truly is
29:03 Oh God he you know he's so stingy he
29:06 doesn't want you to have every tree in
29:08 the garden they were given all the trees
29:09 they were just had that one exception
29:12 this to destruction that you and I see
29:15 in the world around us is because people
29:18 truly don't know who God is I'll never
29:22 forget my brother I have three brothers
29:24 and one of my brothers his wife did a
29:29 lot of things and he divorced her and
29:34 they had two little kids at the time my
29:38 brother bought a house on the same
29:40 street so could live down from his
29:43 children so he could see him all the
29:44 time but his daughter started to kind of
29:49 distance herself from him
29:51 and she would say all these things my
29:54 brother was like where is that coming
29:56 from that's not who I am
30:00 well his ex-wife her vision was clouded
30:06 about my brother and was saying things
30:07 right in the child was picking them up
30:11 and my brother said something to me and
30:15 I'll never forget it he said you know
30:17 what I said to my daughter I said let me
30:20 take you down memory lane God wants to
30:24 take us down memory lane of who he is
30:27 and Psalm 103 he says forget not don't
30:32 forget my Bennifer get benefits don't
30:34 forget Who I am
30:36 I am the God who forgives you I am the
30:40 God who heals you I am the God who
30:44 redeems your life from the pit I am the
30:47 God who will crown your life with my
30:49 love and compassion then in Psalm 100 he
30:54 says basically the same thing don't
30:57 forget me know that I am the Lord your
31:02 God you're my people
31:05 you'll be
31:06 along to me you are the Sheep of my
31:10 pasture
31:11 he says I'm good other people are
31:15 telling you things that make you think
31:17 that I'm a bad god that I'm a mean angry
31:19 God but I'm good
31:22 I'm merciful I'm kind I will always be
31:27 faithful I will always have your back
31:29 I always have my mercy chase you down so
31:34 God wants to walk us down memory lane
31:36 and our Bible is filled with memories of
31:41 God why is that because the enemy 24/7
31:46 is telling lies about who God truly is
31:52 because he's jealous and he wants you to
31:56 worship Him and believe him
31:59 he wants you in his demonic Kingdom and
32:04 God calls us and beckons us in Psalm 102
32:10 enter in to another Kingdom into his
32:13 kingdom
32:15 so we're called to know the truth about
32:18 who God is and it comes primarily from
32:22 reading the Bible Psalm 100 as you saw
32:26 up on that overhead calls you to know
32:30 seven basic truths about God it's in
32:35 verses 3 & 5 the verse the verb to know
32:40 is yada it's in Hebrew it means to
32:44 personally experience this word Yadav /
32:48 peers in many many other verses in the
32:51 Bible and it appears in verses like a
32:55 man is to know his wife Genesis 4:1 now
33:00 Adam knew yada Eve his wife and she
33:04 conceived and bore Cain God desires that
33:09 we know him just as closely as a man
33:12 would know his wife knowing that comes
33:16 from personal clothes into
33:19 man pull the shades you know down just
33:24 you know tell it like it is day-to-day
33:26 experiences with God and God wants to us
33:30 to deeply know his character he wants us
33:36 to deeply know his nature I believe one
33:42 of the reasons why that God has ordained
33:44 marriages and put us in marriages is
33:48 because he wants us to get a glimpse of
33:52 what it is to know him my husband Kenny
33:57 sitting in the back but you know I've
33:59 always said to myself and others you
34:02 know I said you know I get to know a
34:06 taste of who God is through my husband
34:09 because if he says he's gonna do
34:11 something I can be assured he'll do it
34:14 and if he has taken a task on I'm
34:17 assured that he'll do it with excellence
34:19 I'm assured of him I am secure in his
34:24 love I don't have to think that you know
34:27 he's off doing anything I can have
34:29 confidence in him in God
34:32 once our confidence or trust to be in
34:36 him because he is faithful and good my
34:40 husband Kenan is faithful and good God
34:43 is faithful and good God wants us to
34:46 know yadah him he wants us to know him
34:51 intimately personally close up face to
34:56 face and one thing and I don't want you
34:59 to forget from tonight's talk if he
35:01 wants you to see him smiling at you his
35:07 heart is filled with joy you bring
35:12 delight and pleasure to him there's a
35:16 prayer that I encourage each one of you
35:18 to pray it's from Ephesians 1:15 through
35:21 21
35:22 but infusions 1:17 that says this that
35:25 the god of our Lord Lord Jesus Christ
35:27 the father of glory may give to you the
35:32 spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
35:35 knowledge of him now this is a prayer
35:38 from Ephesians one I pray you fusions
35:40 one Ephesians three fusion six these are
35:43 prayers I pray but we need to pray that
35:47 God would reveal God as he truly is to
35:54 us that the veils of deception would be
35:58 removed from our eyes so that we can see
36:01 with clarity the purity the humility the
36:07 greatness of our God Roman numeral four
36:13 what does Psalm 100 call you to know
36:16 about God number one this is the first
36:21 thing in verse three were called to now
36:25 it says know that the Lord he is God
36:32 he's the one that rules over all and who
36:36 desires to be the lord over your life
36:39 over all the areas of your life Lord
36:44 like we learned last week is capitalized
36:47 and it refers to God's Hebrew name
36:52 Yahweh which is His redemptive
36:56 relationship to us he wants us to know
36:59 him I gave you seven primary redemptive
37:02 themes of God last night compound names
37:06 he wants us to know very closely through
37:10 experiential knowledge him as Jehovah
37:14 Nissi our banner Jehovah Rapha our
37:18 healer he wants us to know who he is and
37:24 that he has redeemed us from every kind
37:28 of every kind of bad thing that is ever
37:31 would ever cross our paths I like Psalm
37:35 95 three it's a part of the enthronement
37:40 Psalms which Psalm 100 is an
37:43 enthronement Psalm or goddess
37:46 seated on his throne and he's high and
37:49 lifted up and it says in Psalm 95 three
37:53 for the Lord is great is the great God
37:56 and the great king above all gods you
38:05 need to know that this is the God that
38:09 says that you belong to him
38:14 you don't belong to any other God he
38:18 says all I am the Great God and I will
38:22 snatch you out of the hand of anyone who
38:26 tries to touch you you're mine you
38:30 belong to him from the New Testament
38:33 we've already went over this Jesus
38:36 Christ is Lord he was given all
38:38 authority and power in heaven on earth
38:41 and you can read this in Ephesians 1 20
38:44 through 21 Jesus is seated at God's
38:49 right hand in the heavenly places far
38:52 above every principality and power a
38:55 might and Dominion and every name that
38:57 is named some of us Knight might know
38:59 this theologically and intellectually
39:02 but God wants us to know this
39:06 experientially joy filled living begins
39:10 when you submit your life to the
39:13 lordship of Jesus Christ and your joy is
39:16 made full as you allow him to rule over
39:20 every year of your life as you bow your
39:23 knee and submit to his authority saying
39:26 what he says and doing what he does just
39:29 like Jesus did with his heavenly father
39:32 I love that Jesus submitted himself as
39:38 God to God
39:40 as a human to his heavenly Father
39:45 showing us that it's possible and it had
39:51 reaps tremendous benefits and blessings
39:54 if we will say and do what is written in
39:59 his word
40:00 what he calls us to say and do and
40:03 because you're in the healing rooms and
40:05 you come tonight part of your primary
40:09 job assignment is to go about like Jesus
40:14 did doing good and healing all who are
40:17 pressed signs wonders and miracles are
40:21 part of your job assignment your job
40:24 description don't settle for anything
40:26 less any lesser calling in your life
40:30 Roman numeral two you're called to know
40:33 that God made you and that you belong to
40:36 him and I like the good news translation
40:40 it says we belong to him rather than
40:42 saying and not we ourselves know that it
40:46 is he who made us and not we ourselves
40:49 that's the New King James Version good
40:54 news translation know that it is he who
40:57 made us and we belong to him
41:00 God made mankind in His image Genesis
41:05 1:26 and John 1:1 through three tells us
41:11 that Jesus was there alongside of God in
41:17 the beginning and it says this all
41:20 things were made through Jesus and
41:23 without him nothing was made that was
41:27 made
41:27 God had the plan of what he would make
41:33 in the universe including mankind Jesus
41:37 spoke God's Word and me and came into
41:42 existence
41:46 but to the first Adam's sin God's image
41:51 in man was marred and Jesus Christ came
41:56 to restore mankind back to their
41:59 original identity to our original
42:02 identity through His redemptive work
42:05 when you receive Jesus Christ in your
42:08 heart God made you into a new creation
42:10 in Christ and new species that had never
42:13 been seen before he restored you back
42:17 into his image and likeness and this is
42:21 the good news of great joy this is the
42:27 good news of Jesus Christ you yes you do
42:33 you and I are made in the image of our
42:38 joyful loving King and father knowing
42:42 and living from your two identity in
42:44 Christ releases genuine joy why because
42:49 in Christ you've been anointed with the
42:51 same oil of gladness that Jesus was
42:56 anointed with and Jesus is living in you
43:00 the more you know the truth of who God
43:02 is is revealed in his son Jesus Christ
43:05 the more you will know who you are in
43:09 Christ and this experiential knowledge
43:12 will cause much joy and rejoicing in
43:15 your life in fact you'll find yourself
43:18 smiling like Jesus it is your privilege
43:21 and honor to live from the highest
43:24 reality in your life the reality of who
43:28 Jesus is to live and walk in the spirit
43:31 of Jesus Christ
43:34 residing within you is the answer to the
43:39 gloom and doom of the world around you
43:43 may you bear the everlasting fruit of
43:47 joy in your life so the goodness of God
43:51 can be tasted and seen Roman point
43:56 number C the third thing you're called
43:58 to know is
43:59 that we are his people and that God has
44:04 seen through his son Jesus Christ is
44:06 your good and great Shepherd Jesus not
44:10 only laid down his life for you but
44:13 he'll supply your needs taking good care
44:15 of you Jesus the Great and Good Shepherd
44:19 will equip you with everything that you
44:23 need to do his will
44:25 do you have god-given dreams and visions
44:29 God will equip you at everything you
44:32 need through Jesus's blood you have
44:34 access to all that belongs to God your
44:38 father's that's hebrews 13 22 21 knowing
44:44 and living in the reality that you
44:46 belong to god that you are his own
44:48 special people will give you confidence
44:50 to joyfully face all that opposes you
44:53 and your god-given destiny in Psalm 105
44:59 were given three character descriptions
45:02 or three more things were called to know
45:06 three truths about God we're called to
45:10 know that he's good that he's merciful
45:13 and that he's faithful the Lord is good
45:18 that comes from a Hebrew word T owb and
45:23 it's also translated as cheerful glad
45:26 happy favored joyful loving Merry and
45:29 pleasant
45:30 so that's who your God is and that's who
45:34 got Jesus represented while he was here
45:37 on planet Earth the Lord mercy is
45:40 everlasting and his truth to all
45:43 generation that word mercy is actually
45:46 that word Hasset that we studied in
45:48 Psalm 103 and that's all I'm going to
45:53 close tonight session two next week I'm
45:55 hoping to touch a lot more on the Lord's
45:58 goodness because we need to know that
46:02 God is good and we need to distinguish
46:06 the things that come from God from the
46:09 in from the things that come from the
46:11 enemy so let's pray
46:12 father I thank you that you're a joyful
46:15 God that you are a joyful father and we
46:19 thank you your countenance your
46:23 expression on your face is a smile and
46:27 that you're smiling at us even in our
46:31 weakness as we grow into the likeness of
46:35 your son Jesus Christ so father I pray
46:38 that you would fill each person here
46:41 with the fullness of your joy and that
46:45 your joy would be seen upon our face and
46:48 others would be attracted to your joy
46:50 and that your very character your nature
46:54 of who you are the truths about you
46:57 would become the living truth in us live
47:02 your life in us and through us may
47:05 people as they know us get to know you
47:10 and may your joy spread rapidly like a
47:16 wildfire through all that we encounter
47:20 all the people Lord in Jesus name we
47:24 pray amen
47:26 so those