Week 1 | Happiness is…

From Psalm 1

First, Where Happiness is NOT found:

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📖 Proverbs 17:1 (ESV) Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

2. to find .

📖 Ecclesiastes 2:10-11 (ESV)  whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil. 11 Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

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Second, What is a HAPPY life?:

1. A life from the of the .

📖 Psalm 1:1 (ESV) Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

2. A life by the of God’s Word. 

📖 Psalm 1:2 (ESV) but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

“Law” – Hebrew: Torah = “ ”

📖 Psalm 32:8-9 (ESV) I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. 9 Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.

📖 Psalm 25:82 (ESV) Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in the way.

3. A life to God.

📖 Psalm 1:3 (ESV) He is like a tree planted by streams of water

4. A life what God wants.

📖 Psalm 1:3b (ESV) that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

📖 Ecclesiastes 2:24 (ESV) There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,

📖 Psalm 128:1-2 (ESV) Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways! 2 You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

Sermon in a Sentence:

When we from this world, in God’s Word, our lives to Him, He makes us in what we .

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