Happiness

Theme: How to Be Truly Happy
 
From this week’s lessons, we see that genuine happiness is found, not where the world assumes it to be, but in imitating the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Scripture: Matthew 5:1-12
 
If a producer of a popular movie, a director of one of today’s successful television shows, or the editor of a widely circulating news or fashion magazine were to rewrite the Beatitudes from a contemporary point of view, I suppose they would go like this: Blessed are t

Theme: Pursuit of Happiness
 
From this week’s lessons, we see that genuine happiness is found, not where the world assumes it to be, but in imitating the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Scripture: Matthew 5:1-12
 
There are a number of ways by which people try to obtain happiness. One man thinks that the way to happiness is through wealth. So he sets his financial goals on a hundred thousand dollars. He gets his hundred thousand, but he is not happy. He sets his goals higher.

Theme: The Way to Happiness
 
From this week’s lessons, we see that genuine happiness is found, not where the world assumes it to be, but in imitating the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Scripture: Matthew 5:1-12
 
1. “Blessed are the poor in spirit.”  In Luke’s version of the Beatitudes the words “in spirit” do not occur (Luke 6:20).

Theme: The Way to Happiness, Continued
 
From this week’s lessons, we see that genuine happiness is found, not where the world assumes it to be, but in imitating the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Scripture: Matthew 5:1-12
 
4. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.”  In my study I have a book by Walter Trobisch, a German missionary to West Africa, entitled, Living with Unfulfilled Desires.

Theme: Imitation of Christ
 
From this week’s lessons, we see that genuine happiness is found, not where the world assumes it to be, but in imitating the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Scripture: Matthew 5:1-12
 
8. “Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness.”  The last of the Beatitudes speaks of happiness in persecution.