1. JOY
HOUSE OF EXCELLENCE

2. Joy – Happiness
Galatia 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness The whole world is looking/searching for HAPPINESS. Happiness = Smile (sign)

3. Joy-Happiness
Lisa Lester smiled non-stop for 10 hours 5 min., breaking the previous record (7 hours 32 min.) Guiness Book of World Records
1 Thes.5:16 “Rejoice evermore”
“Bersukacitalah senantiasa”
Not 10 hours
Happiness Vs. Joy

4. Joy - happiness
“Don’t worry, be happy.”
Can’t be happy all the time
Happiness depends on what happens, but God never changes!
NOT rejoice in circumstances but rejoice in the Lord and because God never changes – Rejoice evermore!
“Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!” Phil.4:4

5. Joy vs Happiness Happiness Joy Cosmetic Character
From outside circumstances
From within
Meets surface needs
Meets deepest needs
Thermometer : registers conditions
Thermostats: regulates condition
Evaporates in suffering
Intensifies in suffering

6. Joy - happiness
Nothing wrong with happiness, but happiness works best when rooted in JOY.
Joy is NOT dependent on happiness
Joy function even better when happiness is taken away
It’s cruel to say to people in sorrow,
“smile and be happy.”

7. Joy - happiness
Isa. 53:3
“He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.”
Jesus was a man of sorrow, but he is also annointed with oil of gladness above they fellows.

8. Joy - happiness
“You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.” Ps.45:7 “You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.” Heb.1:9

9. Joy – why is it important?
1. To win people to Christ Ps.51:12-13 “Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will turn back to you.”

10. Joy – why is it important?
2. To live as Christians Neh.8:9 “ Nehemiah said, "Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is sacred to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength."

11. Joy – three Ingredients
A Cleansed Life: Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have access by faith into his grace wherein we stand and rejoice (bermegah).
Joy comes from having peace with God
Joy comes by the grace of the Lord
(Brings justification)

12. Joy – three ingredients
Justification – reckoned (an accounting term) to us
Rom.4:22 - Hal ini diperhitungkan
22This is why "it was credited to him as righteousness.“
Ledger book
Left side : all your vile thoughts, words and deeds
Right side : paid in full

13. Joy – three ingredients
When that happens, we are clean
When we’re clean, we have this great joy
Luke 10:20 “don’t be happy that demons submit to you, but rejoice that your name is written in heaven.”
What can take JOY away? SIN
Ps.51:12 “Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation.”
Nothing done on you can take your joy!

14. Joy – three ingredients
If you want to know a person, don’t watch his actions, but his reactions.
Actions can be planned.
Mat.5:11-12 “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad because great is your reward in heaven.”
But if my reaction is bad, it takes my joy.

15. Joy – three ingredients
2. Confidence Rejoice in Hope (pengharapan) = confidence based on the Word. Hope: no matter what happens Rom.8:28 “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”

16. Joy – three ingredients
2 Cor.7:4 “I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation.”
Di rampok? Ibr.10:34 “ketika hartamu dirampas, menerima hal itu dengan suka cita
Heb.10:34 “You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.

17. Joy – three ingredients
House burnt down?
If you got your joy from your house you wouldn’t still have joy.
But if you got your joy from the Lord, you still have Him – you still have the joy.
Never said rejoice in your house!

18. Joy – three ingredients
3. Communication Rom.5:11 “Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.” Phil.4:4 “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!”

19. Joy – three ingredients
John 15:11 “These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you and that your joy maybe full.”
John 17:13 "I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.”
To rejoice is a choice; and it begins by choosing Jesus!