*}**IS **REJOICING** AND **JOY** PART OF THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST**??
Matthew 5:12: Jesus says, Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. **REJOICE** and be glad, because great is your **REWARD** in heaven!!"
Luke 6:22,23: Jesus says, "Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. **REJOICE** in that day and **LEAP FOR JOY** because great is your **REWARD** in heaven!!"
Luke 1:47: My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit **REJOICES** in God my Savior.
Luke 10:20: Jesus says, "**REJOICE** that your names are written in heaven!"
John 16:22: Jesus says, "I will see you again and you will **REJOICE**, and no one will take away **YOUR JOY**!!"
Acts 2:25,26: David said about Jesus, "I saw the Lord always before me, because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therfore my heart is glad and my tongue **REJOICES**.... You will fill me with **JOY** in Your presence!!"
Romans 5:1-4: Since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we **REJOICE** in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also **REJOICE** in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.
Romans 12:15: **REJOICE** with those who **REJOICE**!!
2 Corinthians 6:10: We are sorrowful yet **ALWAYS REJOICING**; poor yet making many rich; having nothing , and yet **POSSESSING EVERYTHING**!
I Corinthians 13:6 Love does not delight in evil but **REJOICES** with the truth!
Philippians 4:4: **REJOICE** in the Lord **ALWAYS**. I will say it again: **REJOICE**!!
I Peter 1:4-6: This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time! In this you greatly **REJOICE**!
Revelation 19:6,7: Hallelujah! For our Lord God almighty reigns. Let us **REJOICE** and be glad and give Him glory! For the wedding of the **LAMB** has come, and the bride has made herself ready!!
**IS **REJOICING** AND **JOY** PART OF THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST**??
Colossians 1:12,13: We give **JOYFUL THANKS** to the Father who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of His holy people in the Kingdom of Light. For He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the Kingdom of the Son He loves, in whom we have redemption and forgiveness of sins!!
John 15:10,11: Jesus says, "If you keep My commands, you will remain in My love... I have told you this so that **MY JOY** may be in **YOU** and that your **JOY** may be complete!!"
John 17:24: Jesus says, "Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive {If it is God's will}, and your **JOY** will be complete!!"
Romans 14:17,18: For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and **JOY** in the Holy Spirit, because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God!!
Romans 15:13: My the God of hope fill you with **ALL JOY** and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit!!
Galatians 5:22 The fruit of the Spirit is love and **JOY**!!
I Thessalonians 1:6: You became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you welcomed the message in the midst of severe suffering with the **JOY** given by the Holy Spirit!!
I Thessalonians 5:16: **REJOICE ALWAYS**, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is **GOD'S WILL** for you in Christ Jesus!!
I Peter 1:7-9: This will result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and even though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and are filled with an **INEXPRESSIBLE AND GLORIOUS **JOY**, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls!!
Jude 24,25: To Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and with **GREAT JOY**--to the only God and Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore!! Amen!
Parehtban: We are only born again through the Living Word of God. So start reading the New Covenant and start with the book of John and you must be willing to forsake your many sinful pleasures and seek God with all your heart amd pray that you can understand the eternal truths in God/s Word. If you in your heart love your sinful pleasures amd believe you can still keep some of sinful pleasures after you become a Christian. you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven just as the majority of churches that now follow Satan. Unfortunately you grew up with a church that believed you can be assured of the Kingdom of Heaven if you attended church and accept Jesus as your Savior; and still live with many evil and materialistic pleasures. If you are really serious you will want to help the poor rather than you worldy pleasures.
I Peter 1:23-25: For you have born again, not of perishable seed, but the imperishable, through the **LIVING AND ENDURING WORD OF GOD**. For all people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the Word of the Lord **ENDURES FOVER**!!
Hebrews 11:1,6: Now **FAITH** is confidence in **WHAT WE HOPE FOR** and assurance about **WHAT WE DO NOT SEE**!.... And without **FAITH** it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He **REWARDS THOSE WHO EARNESTLY SEEK HIM**!!
What is this "born again through the Living Word of God" you keep posting? What are these 'sinful pleasures' you accuse me of THREE times in your post? Like I asked Quiznos, where are these "laws" or "rules" you speak of found in the Bible? If you are going to judge me, then why not give me Scripture to show me my 'sinful' ways because I dont even know what that word 'sin' means and its definition! Like I told Quiznos, I was 'saved' LONG ago from my filth and dirtyness the preacher told me! Now I live the happy life because all my dirt and ugliness is gone! Im saved long ago from past, present and future "sins" they told me and I dont even know what they are??? They NEVER said in the church I grew up in that I can be assured of the 'Kingdom of Heaven' if I just attend that church! Where did you get that from my post??? I live the happy life now, don't need the hospital church thing, I'm SAVED and look to the "God" in the sky! Im for ever "saved" of all my past "sins", present "sins" and future "sins" they told me and now I follow this "Jesus" that is in heaven to live a happy life. So that is what I do!
I party and have a good time, love everyone, have not hurt anyone, so I "BELIEVE" in loving everyone! You claim those are 'sinful pleasures' of mine??? You seem to pride yourself of quoting so much Scripture but are lacking in showing me the 'sinful pleasures' of mine? Why?
Finally back to the BIG question you do not answer!? Where are these "rules/laws" of "sins" listed at in the Bible about my so called "sinful pleasures' you accuse me of ? Are they like found in Exodus 20:3-17? I thought I was already "saved" from my filth and dirtyness they told me long ago in church! So what's up with these 'sinful pleasures' you talk about when Im already 'saved' from all future 'sins' the preacher told me then?
The title of this thread is "do you love God" and I do!!!
