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John 16:21-22 | October 25, 2020

What emotion best describes your life?

  • Happiness?
  • Anger?
  • Frustration?
  • Depression?
  • Fear?
  • Emptiness?
  • Guilt?
  • Bitterness?

Which one of those best describes the person in the mirror in the morning?

Or is it all of them?

Are you an emotional time bomb before you get your coffee in the morning?

Do people at the airport ask you to downsize your emotional baggage to just a carry-on?

Do people at school or work tell you they aren’t tall enough to ride on your emotional roller coaster?

Here’s a similar question…

What perspective governs your life?

  • Do you look at things from your perspective?
  • Do you look at things from a social media perspective?
  • Do you look at things from your family’s perspective?

Or do you look at things from the perspective of knowing God?

Do you take into account the truths and the promises of the Bible when it comes to how you look at life?

In a lot of different ways your emotions and your perspective shape and define who you are.

So, who are you?

Jesus was about to be arrested and killed.

The emotions of his friends were going to be all over the place – they were going to have a hard time keeping things in perspective.

So, Jesus is going to help them by giving them a single phrase – just the second part of a sentence.

And that phrase would help them and encourage them for any and every difficulty they were going to face.

Could you use a phrase like that?

Have you had any difficulties this week?   

That must be some kind of magical second part of a sentence to help with any difficulty in life.

So, what did Jesus tell them?

Listen to John 16, beginning with verse 21…

21 Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain,

Didn’t see that coming, right?

The answer to all your difficulties in life is birth pain.

I know some moms that might beg to differ. 

Now, before we start counting contractions let’s hear the rest of what Jesus says.

21 Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish

Why does she forget the anguish and the pain?

Jesus tells us…

21 because of the joy that a child has been born into the world.

What a powerful and clear picture Jesus gives.

Some of you fathers were not in the room when your children were born because they used to not let the dads in the room.

But I was right in the room for the birth of all four of our kids.

I heard and saw the pain.

And then I heard and saw the joy.

All in the same event.

There was extreme pain in the birth.

And there was ecstatic joy in the same birth.

Ray Stedman

What caused the mother’s anguish? The baby. What causes her joy? The baby.

Jesus is about to be brutally beaten and then crucified on a cross, half-naked, out in public, in front of everyone.

He was going to die and be placed in a tomb. 

And the disciples were going to have great anguish as all of that played out.

But the anguish of the cross was going to turn into joy. 

Why?

Because of what the cross accomplished.

Romans 8:3

For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin…

Jesus came as an offering – a substitute – for the just and right penalty of sin.

What is sin?

Sin is not living up to or rebelling against the character and the commands of God.

Someone said it’s like the true attitude of your heart is looking at God and saying…

“You don’t get to make the rules! I am capable of deciding right and wrong for myself”

But are we capable?

Has there ever been a time in the history of the world that humans have gotten everything right?

Has there ever been a time in your own life when you have gotten everything right?

Part of what it means to be a Christian is to understand that the closer you get to Christ the more you will see your need for him – you will see that you can’t get everything right. 

But those who think that they are pretty good people and don’t have sin are on a highway to the danger zone.

1 John 1:8

If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

C.S. Lewis

When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.

C.S. Lewis

You can understand the nature of drunkenness when you are sober, not when you are drunk.

Why does it seem that so many people think that they don’t have sin?

Or at the very least they don’t think their sin is that bad?

Most of the time it falls into one of two categories…

  • They’ve never been caught in their sin
  • Their sin doesn’t seem as bad as other people’s sin

The only problem with both of those ideas is that God sees and God knows and his estimation of sin is different. 

Paul described God’s estimation this way…

Romans 3:23

…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…

 

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death…

  • Not detention
  • Not a slap on the wrist
  • Not having your wages garnished

But everlasting, emotional, physical, spiritual death!

There is no greater anguish for your soul than the anguish of experiencing death forever. 

But there is good news – Jesus came to conquer sin and death!

  • He came for my sin!
  • He came for your sin!
  • He came to deal with the problem of sin!

Someone might ask…

“What’s the problem with sin?”

Like a terminal disease for your soul, the wages of sin…

  • Create a one-way ticket away from God
  • Condemn a person forever
  • Confirm that death will be an eternal reality

What does that mean?

It’s as if Jesus is saying, “Take the worst terror that you have ever imagined and that will seem mild compared to the reality of being eternally lost.”

C.S. Lewis

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, is of infinite importance…

The very basic message of Christianity is this:

You need Jesus!

Why?

Because in your heart, you are saying to God…

“You don’t get to make the rules! I am capable of deciding right and wrong for myself!”

Sin is a huge problem – it causes serious trouble now and it can cause infinite horror later – and you can’t do anything about it. 

  • You can’t be good enough
  • You can’t pray the right thing
  • You can’t do the right thing
  • You can’t know the right people

You cannot solve the problem of sin!

Here’s the great news though:

God did something about sin! 

God sent his Son to the cross!

Jesus died as the perfect offering for sin! 

Nobody else would have worked! 

Only Jesus!

So, what does that have to do with you?

Well, the cross is your bridge from death to life. 

Romans 8:1

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

  • No condemnation!
  • No damnation!
  • No separation!

The cross provides a way for the words on the last page of your life to no longer read:

  • He perished
  • She was destroyed
  • He was lost

The cross is the only way for the words on the last page of your life to read:

  • He is not condemned!
  • She has everlasting life!
  • He has everlasting love!
  • She has everlasting joy!

What was going to cause the disciples to have great pain?

The cross! 

What was going to cause the disciples to have great joy?

The cross!

What kind of joy are we talking about?

Jesus continues…

22 Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

There’s the phrase!

There’s the second part of the sentence!

  • Don’t miss it!
  • Write it down!
  • Memorize it!
  • Tattoo it on your brain!
  • Put it in permanent marker on the back of your eyelids!

No one will take your joy away from you!

“Cute words, preacher, but my joy gets taken away all the time.”

  • “My wife takes it away.”
  • “My husband takes it away.”
  • “My kids take it away.”
  • “School takes it away.”
  • “Work takes it away.”
  • “The state of our country takes it away.”

If that’s true, then here’s a hard question for your heart…

Where is your joy?

If your joy can be taken away, then your joy can’t be in Jesus, right?

Because if it was, then you just called Jesus a liar. 

Because Jesus said if your joy is in him, then it can’t be taken away. 

So, if your joy is being taken away all the time, then maybe you don’t have the joy of Christ.

Maybe you don’t really know Jesus. 

Now, please note:

We are talking about joy, not happiness. 

Happiness is a temporary state or attitude that can come and go like the waves at the ocean, but joy is a mountain that never moves. 

Happiness moves. 

Why?

Because everything doesn’t make us happy. 

  • Life is hard
  • Taxes increase
  • Economies flounder
  • Health issues pop up
  • Cars break down
  • Money runs out
  • Things change
  • People change
  • People disappoint us
  • People hurt us
  • People abandon us
  • People die

That’s why happiness can come and go. 

But joy in Jesus is different. 

Joy in Jesus is solid and sure and is still there when everything else around us collapses. 

This is how Jesus explained it on another day…

Matthew 10:28

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.

In other words, the worst thing that can happen in your life is not what happens to: 

  • Your family
  • Your health
  • Your bank accounts
  • Your job

The worst thing that can happen in your life is what happens to your soul. 

Jesus is saying:

“No one will take your joy away from you – if your joy is in me!”

However, if your ultimate joy is not in Jesus, anything and anybody can take your joy away from you at anytime. 

If your ultimate joy is not in Jesus, being in church or watching online or singing hymns or singing praise songs or listening to the sermon or taking the Lord’s Supper won’t help you. 

But if your ultimate joy is in Jesus, it will not and cannot be taken away.

  • No person
  • No diagnosis
  • No news report
  • No letter
  • No phone call
  • No comment
  • No text message
  • No email
  • No Facebook post

True joy in Jesus will not and cannot be taken away. 

But if we are honest, we don’t always think and feel like that, do we?

Gloria Furman is a wife and mom and author.

Gloria Furman

Some mornings when I wake up I can’t see straight…I yawn, stretch, and shuffle into the kitchen for some coffee. By the time my bare feet hit the cold tiles I am fully awake and I can’t see straight.

Gloria Furman

Alas! Today is…today. How am I going to make it through today? A flood of thoughts stir in my mind and then my emotions chime in...A fog of unbelief and doubt descends…

Ever been there?

Gloria Furman

If you feel like the Lord is not at hand, that he has forgotten about you, that he is apathetic to your plight, and that he does not have the power to save, then you have everything to be anxious about.

She goes on to say that when you think you have everything to be anxious about and an army is surrounding you demanding that you hand over your faith she said you may be tempted to repeat one of the most ridiculous questions in the Bible.

When they were out in the storm on the sea the disciples of Jesus asked him…

“Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”

How do we know Jesus cares when we are perishing?

How do we know that the joy he promised is for real?

Think back to that new mom.

Think back to each stage of her experience.

  • When the anguish of labor is over
  • When the pain of labor is finished
  • When the work of giving birth is over
  • The mother is full of joy

And no matter how rude and mean and rebellious and awful that child might grow to be, there is nobody in the world who can take the joy of that moment away from that mother.

There was this moment almost 2000 years ago when the bloody, beaten Son of God said the most powerful three words in history:

“It is finished!”

And what he finished on the cross that day cannot be undone. 

  • My family can be undone
  • My job can be undone
  • My health can be undone
  • Almost everything in my life can be undone

But the cross cannot be undone.

The work of Jesus on the cross cannot be undone.

That truth brings joy to the person who has put his faith in Jesus. 

So, have you truly put your faith in Christ?

Are you really trusting in Jesus and clinging to him only?

If so, then drink deeply of these words from your Redeemer: 

No one will take your joy away.

No one will take your joy away.

Message by Dow Welsh |

October 25, 2020 © Holland Avenue Baptist Church

 

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Lots of help from many pastors and theologians

Weekly help from Bruce Hurt at www.preceptaustin.org

https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/what-to-do-when-you-cant-see-straight

 



So what Emotion best describes your life. What emotion best describes you. I'll give you some options. Happiness, anger, frustration, depression, fear, emptiness, guilt or bitterness. Which one of those best describes you? Which one of those is is kind of the person that you see in the mirror in the morning? Or is it Is it all of them? Are you, like an emotional time bomb in the morning before you get your coffee? You know, nobody knows what what they're going to get in the morning. Or maybe the people at work or at school. They say, Look, uh, you know, if you go to the airport, just just remember that they're probably going to ask you to downsize your luggage, your emotional baggage just to a carry on. You know, they they can't have it. All that Or maybe those people at work at school said You look, I'm just not tall enough to ride on your emotional roller coaster, and I just can't go there with you. You know, maybe you've got some serious emotion happening in your life are kind of similar. Question. What governs your perspective on life? What What are the rules that govern how you look at life? Do you look at things in the world from your perspective? Do you look at things from the world and going on in the world from the perspective of social media? Do you look at things happening in the world from the perspective of your family or your friends or some other way of life? Or do you look at things in the world through the eyes of what it means to know God do look at things in the world, filtering them through, taking into account the truth and the promises and the comfort of the Bible? Do do you think about God as you look at things in the world in a very real way, your emotions and your perspective kind of shape and define who you are. So who are you? Who are you? Who is the person you see in the mirror in the morning? Who is the person that your family and friends deal with all day long? Who are you? Jesus was about to be arrested and brutally crucified His friends. The disciples were about the have some serious emotional issues. Their emotions were going to be all over the place and they were going to have a really hard time keeping perspective. So Jesus is going to help him. He's going to help him with one phrase. Just one phrase. He's going to help him with one phrase. He's going to encourage them with one phrase. And this one phrase is going to be good for any difficulty that they face in life. You need a phrase like that. Have you had some difficulties this week? I mean, one phrase that helps with every difficulty in life. That's a pretty amazing for HACE. So what did Jesus say? Let's find out. Luke, Chapter 16 beginning with verse 21. Whenever a woman is in labor, she has pain. Well, I didn't see that one coming, you know, the problem for every difficulty in your life is birth pain. Have some moms that I think would disagree with that statement for sure. Before you start counting contractions, that's not the phrase that Jesus is giving. That's just part of the conversation. So let's continue to listen to what he says he goes on. Whenever a woman is in labor, she has pain because her hour has come. But when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish. Why? Why does she no longer remember the anguish? Why does she no longer remember the pain? Jesus tells us 1st 31 because of the joy that a child has been born into the world. What a powerful and clear picture that Jesus gives us now. Some of you fathers were not in the room when your Children were born because they used to not let the dads in. But I was in the room for the birth of all four of my kids, all of the pain and all of the joy and stuff. What's happening with my wife to. But you know all of that, you know, right there. In that moment there was this extreme pain in this extreme joy all in the same moment. I love how Ray Stedman put it. What caused the mother's anguish? The baby, what causes her joy? The baby Jesus is about to be arrested, brutally beaten, crucified, half naked, out in public for everybody to see. He was going to die. He was going to be buried in a tomb and his disciples. We're going to be full of anguish and pain as all of this plays out. But the anguish of the cross was going to turn to joy. Why? Because of what the Cross accomplished Paul said this the folks at Rome, Romans 83 for what the law could not do week as it was through the flesh God did, sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for shit, Jesus became an offering of a substitute for the just and right penalty of sin. What sin? We'll pull together kind of several definitions and kind of came up with something that goes like this Sin is not living up to or rebelling against the character and the commands of God. Somebody said it this way. It's like the attitude of our hearts. We look up a God and we say, Hey, whoa, wait a minute. You don't get to make the rules for my life. I can decide what's right and what's wrong. I'm capable of handling what's right and what's wrong. But are we? I mean in the in the history of the world, Has there ever been a time where humans were getting everything right? And maybe on a more personal level, has there ever been a time in the history of your life when you were getting everything right? See, part of what it means to be a Christian is that you understand the closer you get to Jesus, you realize the mawr. You need him because you're not going to get everything right. But people who think that they're not that bad, you know that they're pretty good people, that they don't have this thing called sin in their life. They are on the highway to the danger zone. First John, Chapter one, Verse eight says this. If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves. We're lying to ourselves, and the truth is not in us, C. S. Lewis put it this way. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. Ah, moderately bad man knows he's not very good. Ah, thoroughly bad man thinks he's all right. Then he really brings it cleared to put it. In practical terms, he says this. You can understand the nature of drunkenness when you're sober, not when you're drunk. Why is it that so many people think, but all sin, that they don't have any thin in their lives? Well, usually kind of falls into one of two categories, either? A. They've never really been caught in their sin, never really had to be held accountable for their sin. Or they're convinced that their sin is just not as bad as the sin that's out there in the world. The problem with both of those views is that God sees all and God knows all, and he has a complete, different estimation on sin, Paul said. God's estimation sounds like this Romans 3 23 for all of sin and falls short of the glory of God and then just a few chapters later room and six, he says that the wages of sin it's death, not a slap on the wrist, not detention, not having your wages garnished Now The wages of sin, by definition, is everlasting. Emotional, physical, spiritual death that the kind of death that is not something that just happens in the second and then disappears. So the greatest anguish that your soul can experience is being separated from God forever. There is no greater anguish for your soul than the experience of death forever. But there's good news. Jesus died to conquer sin and death, to conquer and deal with the problem of sin. He came from my sin. He came for your sin. He came to deal with the problem of sin once and for all. But somebody might say, What's the problem with sin? What's the big deal? Well, send by definition is kind of a big deal because of what it does. See the wages of sin. They create a one way ticket away from God, the wages of sin. They condemn a person forever. There's no release from jail. There's no parole. The wages of sin confirm that death is an eternal reality. It doesn't end. It keeps going and going and going. And so it's kind of like Jesus is saying to us, Look, imagine the most horrible thing that's happened in your life. Imagine the most terrible thing that's happened in your life. Or just imagine the most terrible, horrible thing that you can imagine and that will be mild compared to an eternity separated from God and lost picture of how Jesus describes being separated from God. Picture of how the Bible describes being separated from God is never good for you and for your soul. Faceless also said this Christianity, if false, is of no importance. Zero. You're wasting your time coming here today. Christianity, if false, is of no importance and if true, is of infinite importance that there's nothing mawr important. If Christianity is true, then no. In Christ, you see that the message of Christianity over and over again is kind of saying the same thing. It's saying you need Jesus. Your greatest need is Jesus. Why? Because whether you feel it, whether you know it, whether you agree with it, whether you wanna have anything to do with it, the very nature of our hearts is to say, Hey, wait a minute. God, you don't get to make the rules in my life, I will decide what's right and what's wrong. That's what sent does. It makes us a rebel against our creator, a rebel against all that's holy and good and happy and joyful. Any turn sends a big deal. See, it causes lots of trouble now that it causes infinite horror forever. And here's the thing about it. You can't do anything about it. That's that's the reality. You can't be smart enough. You can't be pretty enough. You can't be handsome enough. You can't be rich enough. You can't do the right thing enough. You can't pray the right thing enough. You can't know the right people. You cannot solve the problem of sin. But great news. God solved the problem of sin. God did something about the problem of sin. He sent his own son to die for sin to absorb the penalty of sin. God sent Jesus to the cross as the perfect offering for sin. And on Lee, Jesus was the perfect offering. He's the Onley, one that's qualified and certified because he's the only one that was perfect. He's the only one that could step in. No one else could do it. Only Jesus. Only Jesus. So I have to do with you. Well, the cross is your bridge from death. It's a life. Paul Sol said this to the Romans. Romans 81 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ. Jesus. No condemnation. No damnation, no separation. See, the cross provides a way for the last page of your life to not say he perished. She was destroyed. He was lost. You see, the cross provides the on leeway for the last page of your life to be rewritten. Really? All the pages of your life to be rewritten so that the last page says he is not condemned. She gets everlasting life. He gets everlasting love. She gets everlasting joy. Only the cross could do that. Onley The power of Jesus in and through the cross could bring you joy. What was going to cause The disciples toe have great pain. The cross What was going to give the disciples great joy Cross? What kind of joy are we talking about? Jesus tells us 1st 22 therefore you to have grief now But I will see you again and your heart will rejoice and no one will take your joy away from you. There's the phrase the best one, so don't miss it. Get it right it down. Memorize it, Tattoo it on your brain right in permanent marker on the inside of your eyelids. Whatever you have to do, get this phrase. This is the phrase for every difficulty in life. No one will take your joy away from you Now someone might be thinking, Well, that sounds cute, preacher, but it's just not true My joy gets taken away all the time My wife takes my joy away My husband takes my joy away My kids take my joy away Work takes my joy away School takes my joy away My team takes joy away State of our country takes my joy away If that's true, then here's kind of ah heart question for you It's a hard one But where is your joy Where is your joy? Because if those things can take your joy away your joy can't be in Jesus, Right, Because Jesus just said that his joy can't be taken away. So if all these things take your joy away then you you kind of making Jesus a liar a little bit, because, see, if anything and all those things can take your joy away, then it's possible that you don't actually have the joy of Christ. Maybe you don't actually know Jesus. Now we're talking about joy, not happiness. Okay? They're two different things. Happiness is like a temporary attitude, a temporary condition. Happiness can change like the waves of the ocean. But joy Joy is like a mountain that never moves. How do we know? How do we know it? Joy is a mountain that never moves. Well, think about all the things that don't make you happy in life. I mean, everything doesn't always get right, right? I mean, life is hard. Taxes increase. Economies flounder. Health issues pop up. There's trouble at work. There's trouble at school. Things change. People change. People disappoint us. People let us down. People abandon us. People die so everything in life can't make us happy. Happiness can come and go. Joy is different. Though The joy found in Jesus is always there. When everything else collapses, when everything falls away, nothing can touch the joy of Jesus. Nothing on another day. Jesus said it this way. Matthew Chapter 10 and do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. In other words, the worst thing that can happen in your life is not something that can happen to your family or your health or your job or your bank account or your country. Those air, not the worst thing that can happen in your life. The worst thing that can happen in your life is what happens to your soul. The worst thing that can happen is being separated from God. And so what Jesus is saying is this. If you have your joy in me, that joy cannot be taken away. But if your ultimate and primary joy is not in Jesus than anything, and anybody can take your joy away at any time, it's the nature of not having Jesus. You can stream online. You can come here on campus. You can sing hymns and sing praise songs. You can listen to sermons. You can take the Lord's Supper, and it won't help if your joy is not in Jesus. If your primary ultimate joy is not in Jesus, but if it ISS, if your joy is in the Jesus of the Bible, the one who loved you and gave himself up for you. The one who died on the cross to satisfy the penalty of sin with one who desires to save you. If he has not saved you to rescue you, if he has not rescued you that Jesus joy in him cannot be taken away. Nothing. Fill in the blank. No person, no diagnosis, no news report, No letter, no phone call. No comment, no text message. Nothing. No email, no Facebook post. No instagram picture. Nothing. And I know I'm hurting our feelings a little bit. No election. Listen, we we need to be bold Americans. We need to be living out. Our faith is Christians in this country. We need to be stepping up and stepping in. We don't need to be re posting things on social media all day. We need to be active in our country for the glory of God and for the good of our fellow citizens. Whatever that looks like for you Go do it. So what we've been called to do, it's it's why we're here is believers. And it's why God has graciously put us in this nation. But There is no uncertainty in the history of the world that will ever change the joy of Jesus. It won't it can't if I could give you any gift today, please here that there is absolutely nothing that can or ever will take away the joy of Jesus. It's his joy. Nobody touches it. Nobody removes its power. Nobody removes this impact because it's hiss and he gives it to you. And when he gives, it stays, it stays true. Join Jesus cannot be taken away, but if we're honest, we don't always feel that way. Do I mean, we don't? Gloria Furman is a wife, a mom. She said this some mornings when I wake up, I can't see straight. You might have been there. I yawn. Stretch shuffle into the kitchen for some coffee. By the time my bare feet hit the cold tiles, I'm fully awake and I can't see straight. Alas, today is today. How am I going to make it through today? Ah, flood of fought stir in my mind and then my emotions chime in. Ah, fog of unbelief and doubt Descents. I've never been there Ever felt that. And then she says This If you feel like the Lord is not at hand, that he has for gotten about you, that he is apathetic to your plight and that he does not have the power to save, then you have everything to be anxious about. I'm going to repeat that because it's pretty powerful. If you feel like the Lord is not a hand like somewhere in your mind right now, you're thinking, Oh, well, God's not in charge of this country for God's not in charge of this situation, If that's in your mind, if you feel like the Lord is not at hand, that he has forgotten about you, that he is apathetic to your plight and that he does not have the power to save, then you have everything to be anxious about. She goes on to say, If if you have this anxiety within you and you feel like somebody is taking your faith away from you, you'll be tempted toe ask a question. The most ridiculous question in the Bible with us. How cheap reports it. And in that question came from the boat on the sea with Jesus and his friends in the middle of the storm when they said, Teacher, do you not care that were perishing? Why is that a ridiculous question? I mean, what more does God have to do to convince you that he cares that you're a parachute? He sent his only son for you. For you? How do we know that Jesus cares that we're perishing? How do we know that? That we have this confidence in the promises that he has made? Think back to that mom. You know, when the when the pain is over, when the labors over, when the anguish is over, there's there's nothing but joy, nothing but joy. And listen to the reality of this and your mom's Know this? So yesterday I was down helping my parents. I'm the i t guy for my family. So, um, email and kindles and everything had gone out of wack. So I'm down yesterday morning helping my mom and dad, and when I got ready to leave, my mom was so excited, I think to have her kindle back on that, you know, she came over and gave me a big hug, you know, told me, told me she loved me, you know? But it's funny because in that moment. You know, I don't have toe have that moment to know that my mom loves me. Although it's it's a great moment now, see, no matter how rebellious, wild, rude, mean and awful that child grows up to be. Nothing can take the joy from that mother. Nothing, I think so. No matter how mean or rude are awful or rebellious, this world becomes absolutely nothing could take the joy of Jesus away from a believer. Nothing, nothing. About 2000 years ago, the bloody, beaten Son of God said the most powerful three words in history, he said. It is finished, It is finished. And with those words, what he was saying was what he had done cannot be undone. Can't be undone. You know what? There's a lot of things that could be undone in my life. About a couple of moments this week, I was just undone, right. My family can be undone. My job can be undone. My health can be undone. Almost everything in my life can be undone. But nothing about the cross could be undone. Nothing, nothing about what Jesus has done can be undone, and that truth brings joy into the heart of a believer. That truth means that the believer, no matter what they face today, tomorrow or next week or five Tuesdays from now or six months from now the joy of knowing that what Jesus has accomplished for us can't be undone. That is riel joy. So question for your heart Do you have that joint? Do you have that joy? If you don't, then we played with you. Nothing else is going to fix it. You keep trying. You can search the whole world over you can. You could buy the right things and go to the right places. You can vote, purchase and play and hobby and whatever you want to fill the gaps with. But nothing will bring you eternal joy that can't be undone. But Jesus But if you do have that joy If that joy is part of your existence shaping and defining your life then please hear the words of your redeeming No one will take your joy away from you. No one will take your joy away from you. No one will take your joy away from you. 


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