John 15:11
These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
This is a very familiar passage of scripture that is placed directly in the context of Jesus' teaching on the importance of remaining in intimate fellowship with Him if we are to bear fruit, obeying His teachings, and loving one another deeply. 'These things' identifies these exact teachings, but also on a larger scale, it identifies all of the teachings that Jesus gave..... Think about this, God gave us the scriptures that our joy may be full! That's awesome to think about, as long as we remember our joy is found in Christ.
Does this verse mean that we will find a deeper joy in Christ as He reveals Himself to us?
Explain why you answered the way you did, use scripture to answer.
Have you ever looked at the Bible from the perspective of one if it's puposes being to teach us how to best enjoy Christ?
I thought I would give everyone a little head-start on the message tonight. Spend a few minutes considering James 4:17. So many times we get in the mode of 'don't do this', 'don't do that', 'avoid this', 'avoid that' and to be sure there is much we shouldn't do that is sin, there is much we should avoid. However we sometimes forget what we 'should' be doing! Now would be a good time to take an inventory of our lives in relation to this verse.....see ya tonight.
Shared your faith in Christ recently? Nervous that you don’t know enough to share your faith? I recently read a survey of over 120,000 people that asked about what was needed to get to heaven. Over 65% said living a good life, only 26% answered that it was related to our relationship with God. Here’s the crazy part.... of those same people, 89.8% think the are going to heaven. You do the math.... over 60% of the people think they are going to heaven, yet believe it is because of their own good merit. That means almost 2 out of 3 people you go to school with don’t know the biblical truth of salvation being by grace.......let’s all get busy!
