Preached February 9th, 2014:

2 Corinthians 11; John 3:6-8; Philippians 1:21; Mark 8:35; Revelation 22:20

I. CHRIST Makes us Alive
II. Find Joy in CHRIST

The first thing to be concerned about was not how much I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man might be nourished.... For I might seek to set the truth before the unconverted, I might seek to benefit believers, I might seek to relieve the distressed, I might in other ways seek to behave myself as it becomes a child of God in this world; and yet, not being happy in the Lord, and not being nourished and strengthened in my inner man day by day, all this might not be attended to in a right spirit. - George Mueller

One happiness shall ye propose to your souls, even an union with Him that made them...One design ye are to pursue to the end of time, -- the enjoyment of God in time and in eternity. Let every affection, and thought and word, and action, be subordinate to this. Whatever ye desire or fear, whatever ye seek or shun, whatever ye think speak, or do, be it in order to your happiness in God, the sole end, as well as source, of your being." - John Wesley

The sin beneath all other sins is a lack of joy in Christ - Tim Keller

III. Become like CHRIST
IV. Love CHRIST More
V. Live for CHRIST

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" - Jim Elliot

VI. Spend Eternity with CHRIST