KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE:
“Pleasure Without Joy Is a Ruse”– blog 11/22/24
Satisfying fleshly desires will never be the source of joy; rather, it is, at best, a temporary “drug” to help you through the day. To give into the human heart’s base desires is to give into something that is truly sick and incapable of guiding you to everlasting joy.
“Pleasure Without Joy Is a Ruse”– blog 11/22/24
Obedience, not pleasure, precedes joy. Pleasure is God’s priority, not ours (Philippians 2:13). It’s also His to give, not ours to take from the world…
If you seek joy, then focus on obedience. This is what pleases God and in this you may rejoice. Pleasure without abiding joy is not from God.
“submit” – from hupotasso – means to subject, to subordinate, to submit, to be under obedience
A humble person is an obedient person.
Salvation is a function of obedience, at all phases of sanctification. Obedience is a function of humility. Humility is a function of Truth (e.g., you must know the Truth to submit to it and therefore be sanctified by it).