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The Real Joy of Advent
I have always found it fascinating that when God chose to announce the birth of the Messiah to the world, he didn’t inform the rich and powerful leaders of the day?
Instead he chose to announce it to shepherds who were tending their flocks near by.
I all probability, the sheep they were tending would be the sacrifices that were used in the temple sacrifices in Jerusalem.
The Shepherds in Palestine culture were considered to be the lowest class of people.
The nature of their calling prohibited them from frequent participation in the religious rituals of their day, and there were discriminating practices against them, they were not even permitted to give testimony.
They were considered to be so unscrupulous and untrustworthy that their testimony was of little value.
Even though the rest of society seemed to shun them and hated them, it seems they held a special place in the heart of God.
CONSIDER THIS:
When God called Moses to bring forth the Exodus of the Israelite people, Moses was an exile in the midianite desert tending sheep.When Israel became a nation, there came a time when a shepherd boy by the name of David, was annointed king.
The age of the prophets we find Amos, not a man of great stature, but a shepherd whom God called into service for Himself.
GOD CALLS THE CULTURALLY INSIGNIFICANT TO BE HIS SERVANTS.
NOTE: the personal nature of the angels message was: ‘Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.
The announcement was then followed by directions and a play, by play, description of what the scene would look like.
TWO STATEMENTS
1) Good News
2) Great Joy
Good News: Good news would later become the identifying characteristic of the Gospel message; it had been used in the deliverance of God’s people.
Great Joy: The news of a Savior would mean much to people in every land, but it came in the first instance to God’s ancient people.
The Savior of Jesus here only in the Synoptic Gospel, is called Christ the Lord.
The message ended with a sudden appearance of a multitude of other angels praising God.
They were call a host, i.e. ‘army”, paradoxically an army that announces peace.
The angels are saying that God will bring peace ‘for men on whom his favor rests’.
There is an emphasis on God, not man.
It is those whom God chooses, rather than those who choose God, of whom the angels speak.
The Good News of Great Joy Is:
SALAVATION
There is an old idea floating around out there that Christianity must be expressed in a gloomy and “piosity”, that Christians must go about with “long faces.”
CHRISTIANITY IS A JOY
What is the difference between happiness and Joy?
When trying to define the difference between joy and happiness, it was J.D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye, that once wrote: “The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.”
In an article from Psychology Today, “The transitory things of life are happiness-based.”
and then later, “Joy comes when you make peace with who you are, where you are, why you are...”
Brown, Sandra L., Joy vs. Happiness, Psychology Today, Dec. 18, 2012
happiness tends to be externally triggered and is based on other people, things, places, thoughts and events
BIG IDEA: WHEN YOU CHOOSE JOY, YOU DESTROY THE ENEMY’S PLOY.
From the very beginning Satan has been trying to distort the Joy of God.
1.Christian Joy is an inward change that expresses itself in an outward way.
1 Peter 1:8
“Though you have not seen Him, you love Him.
Though you do not now see Him, you believe in Him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory.”
The world is seeking happiness that depends on outward circumstances.
Hymn Writer Loses Joy Of Salvation
Robert Robinson, author of the hymn “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” lost the happy communion with the Savior he had once enjoyed, and in his declining years he wandered into the by-ways of sin.
As a result, he became deeply troubled in spirit.
Hoping to relieve his mind, he decided to travel.
In the course of his journeys, he became acquainted with a young woman on spiritual matters, and so she asked him what he thought of a hymn she had just been reading.
To his astonishment he found it to be none other than his own composition.
He tried to evade her question, but she continued to press him for a response.
Suddenly he began to weep.
With tears streaming down his cheeks, he said, “I am the man who wrote that hymn many years ago.
I’d give anything to experience again the joy I knew then.”
Although greatly surprised, she reassured him that the “streams of mercy” mentioned in his song still flowed.
Mr. Robinson was deeply touched.
Turning his “wandering heart” to the Lord, he was restored to full fellowship.
—H.
G. Bosch1
Happiness - like prosperity - always seems to be just out of our reach.
Even if worldly joy is realized, it can only be temporary at best.
Christian Joy is Different for worldly happiness.
It is inward
it does not depend on outward circumstances.
It is real and present
it is real and present; it does not depend upon the future; it is within our grasp.
*We choose joy in trusting when we want to doubt.
*We choose joy in receiving when we want to reject
*We choose joy in celebrating when we want to fear.
“The apostles rejoice that they were worthy to suffer for the name of Christ.
Paul and Silas rejoiced in prison by singing hymns.
It is eternal
We are assured of a joyful future.
Recipients of Great Joy
Many of us will be watching the college bowl games and play-offs this year leading to a national championship in football game.
Team members and fans alike rejoiced in the achievement.
However, the greatest joy came to those who had suffered the bumps, bruises, and hurts in actually playing the game.
Likewise at the Lord’s return the greatest joy will be for those who have striven and suffered for Christ in the interim prior to His return.
JOY.
The experience of deliverance and the anticipation of salvation provide the most significant occasions for rejoicing among the people of God in the OT.
The coming of the Messiah, who delivers his people and brings salvation becomes the basis for rejoicing in the NT.
The response of joy, gladness, or happiness is not only a deep inward feeling, but is expressed in celebration when God’s people gather together.
The apostles rejoiced that they were worthy to suffer for the name of Christ.
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Paul and Silas rejoiced in prison by singing hymns to God, even though their backs were bleeding from fresh beatings.
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2.Christian Joy is found in obedience not apathy.
If you obey Jesus your Joy will be greater.
The Ethiopian Eunuch rejoiced after he had been obedient.
Saul was strengthened only after he became obedient to God.
The Philippian jailer rejoiced only after he had been obedient to the gospel.
Faith produces misery of a tender conscience.
Only the divine assurance of forgiveness brings true joy.
God of Joy
God rejoices in the well-being and faithfulness of his people, and in the repentance and conversion of sinners.
He brings joy to his people, who rejoice in his presence and faithfulness.
God is the source of our daily Joy.
“Rejoice in the Lord always, again I will say, rejoice.”
psalm 37:4 “Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.”
“I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.”
God rejoices in the restoration of his people.
he rejoices as does a bridegroom; .
He rejoices as does a father.
God brings brings the fullness of joy to our lives.
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