SNT 0469 Joy
Heb 2:1-4; 12:1, 2; Psa 16:8 Psa 16:10, 11; 105:37-45; 106:1; Jer 15:16; 1Th 1:2-6; Act 8:4 Act 8:5-8; Luk 15:7; 1Jo 1:4; Gal 5:22 Phi 4:1; Act 20:24; Heb 2:2 ___________ Joy Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille Sunday Night Teaching – 0469 Take your Bibles and turn to Hebrews, please, chapter 2. On one day this summer, four different individuals came to me on the same day, unsolicited, and neither one or the other knew what the other had talked to me about. But all four of them related how that life had really taken on a new vista with a great deal of zest and a great deal of joy since The Way Ministry had entered their life. How that they anticipated with great joy even the coming of another day. Sometimes things happen in life that you're real thankful the day is over with. It's like I've told you many times, I've just had to go to bed at night and I say, “Well, Lord, I thank you this one's finished. Hallelujah. Amen.” And go to sleep because it's been a day. And yet, somehow or other, there is a way to walk that, when that day comes like that, you can close the shop and get up the next morning longingly anticipating and expecting the goodness that the day holds. These people that came to me were from four different entire backgrounds. One was a man, a farmer, and he said how he had such joy just anticipating the next day, being able to go out on the farm among the animals, in the fields; and just have the joy of knowing that God's blessing was upon this work that he and his wife and family were doing on that farm. Another was a man in a factory. And most times factories just get to be drags. You know, you have to be there. You go there because this is where you get your weekly salary, but you just don't longingly anticipate the coming of another day to go back to the shop. And yet this man had so renewed his mind that he went back to that job with great joy day after day, anticipating not only getting his salary when the week had terminated, but how he could witness to peo
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least – but as we grow in the knowledge and grace of the greatness of His Word, we become more sure. And the more sure you become, the greater the joy in living. Sometimes you must just be so anticipating the next day, you can hardly go to sleep at night. I get that way. Just so excited, I wish somehow or other you wouldn't even have to go to sleep and waste all those hours or something, because, boy, the next day you can be up and at it again. And it's just a joy. Why? Like he said in here. I shall not what? be moved. Verse 10, of course, is quoted later on regarding the Lord Jesus Christ, where he said, Psalms 16:10b-11: . . . thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; [in the grave, the person in the grave] neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path [of what?] of life: in thy presence [in God’s presence] is fulness of joy; . . . [not just half joy,