Fullness of Joy
Weekly Reading
Monday: Leviticus 16
Tuesday: Leviticus 17, Luke 17
Wednesday: Leviticus 18, Luke 18
Thursday: Luke 19
Friday: Luke 20
Saturday: Psalm 50-51
Sunday: 1 Chronicles 23-29, 2 Chronicles 1-5
Tuesday: Leviticus 17, Luke 17
Wednesday: Leviticus 18, Luke 18
Thursday: Luke 19
Friday: Luke 20
Saturday: Psalm 50-51
Sunday: 1 Chronicles 23-29, 2 Chronicles 1-5
Discussion Questions
- Did the Holy Spirit highlight anything specific to you from the passage or the sermon?
- Joy is defined as the emotion of sheer delight, and that relational, secure joy with the Lord is joy in its fullness. What are your thoughts on this?
- Has joy been natural or a struggle for you? Think of times in your life when you have felt or not felt joy.
- Has joy come to your mind much when you have thought of God?
- What are ways that we can remember the Lord’s love and produce joy?
- Practice suggestion: Have everyone write down one thing that they are thankful for, one thing in another person in the group that they appreciate, and one thing about God that they are grateful for.
3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?
Sermon Notes
Key Passage: John 15:1-11
Joy: the emotion of sheer delight
"Appreciation is packaged joy." -Chris Coursey
"...if we practice feeling appreciation for five or more minutes three times a day, any time of the day, our brain will reset normal to appreciation." -Jim Wilder
"Reading through the Bible and replacing it with the concept of God's face lighting up gives us a better idea of what joy means and how it feels in our bodies. For example, if we rewrite Psalm 16:11 using the fuller definition, 'In your presence is fullness of joy' becomes 'When your face lights up because you are so happy to be with me, you fill me up with joy.' In John 15, Jesus talks about how he loves his disciples with the same love that the Father has for him. Then he says, 'I've told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be full.' If we replace joy with the fuller definition, Jesus' statement would be, 'My Father's face lights up when he sees me because I'm so special to him. I'm telling you this so that you feel how special you are to my Father and to me. Our faces are shining on you with delight.'" -Michel Hendricks
Joy: the emotion of sheer delight
"Appreciation is packaged joy." -Chris Coursey
"...if we practice feeling appreciation for five or more minutes three times a day, any time of the day, our brain will reset normal to appreciation." -Jim Wilder
"Reading through the Bible and replacing it with the concept of God's face lighting up gives us a better idea of what joy means and how it feels in our bodies. For example, if we rewrite Psalm 16:11 using the fuller definition, 'In your presence is fullness of joy' becomes 'When your face lights up because you are so happy to be with me, you fill me up with joy.' In John 15, Jesus talks about how he loves his disciples with the same love that the Father has for him. Then he says, 'I've told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be full.' If we replace joy with the fuller definition, Jesus' statement would be, 'My Father's face lights up when he sees me because I'm so special to him. I'm telling you this so that you feel how special you are to my Father and to me. Our faces are shining on you with delight.'" -Michel Hendricks
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