Part 1 | Yellowstone and the Secret to Happiness
SERIES THEME: The entertainment world mesmerizes us and continues to influence us in ways we see and do not see, both for good and for bad. Join us as we talk about some of todays most popular shows and influential characters in Binge Worthy. While we may all disagree with the content of these options, we can speak both to the reality of the human condition they express and how God’s Word interacts with the people on screen who we often see in ourselves.
From James 4
📖 James 1:25 (ESV) But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed (makarios) in his doing.
📖 Matthew 5:3-4 (ESV) “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
way to be happy is the way.
Happiness happens when I:
1. the problem not .
📖 James 4:1 (ESV) What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
When a becomes – it creates .
Happiness happens when I:
2. Examine the of my .
📖 James 4:2-3 (ESV) You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
Happiness happens when I:
3. to the who me.
📖 James 4:4-5 (ESV) You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?
God sees our relationship like a , not with .
📖 James 4:5 (ESV) Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?
📖 James 4:5 (NLT) (The scriptures) say that God is passionate that the spirit He has placed within us should be faithful to Him.
📖 1 John 2:15 (ESV) Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Happiness happens when I:
4. to the who .
📖 James 4:6-7 (ESV) But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
📖 James 4:8 (ESV) Draw near to God and He will draw near to you…
📖 James 4:8b-9 (ESV) “Cleanse your hands, you sinners, purify your hearts you double-minded. 9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
📖 James 4:10 (ESV) Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Sermon in a Sentence:
Happiness happens when I live and to God, Him to my life.
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