The Fight for Happiness
...work out your own salvation with fear and trembling Philippians 2:12b
Text: Philippians 4:4 and Philippians 2:12-16
1. Biblical Happiness defined: Biblical joy is about discovering a reasonable, attainable, and delightful happiness in Christ that transcends difficult circumstances.
2. We must fight for Biblical happiness: God-given faith is demonstrated by God-dependent works.
...work out your own salvation with fear and trembling (v. 12)
3. In our fight for happiness, we must revisit the foundation of happiness (the gospel of grace) over and over!
Human effort cannot even cooperate with God’s grace to yield a right standing before Him on the final day.
...for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure (v. 13).
4. In our fight for happiness, we must be the master of our physical desires, not the servant of them.
Take radical measures to fight for holiness. The fight for holiness is the fight for happiness. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified (1 Corinthians 9:27).
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