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What did Jesus give us as a framework or as the keys for living in true happiness?
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The pursuit of happiness is a concept, that is diametrically opposed to everything that Biblical Christianity really means. In the New Testament Christians are called disciples, that is learners or followers of Christ. Jesus himself instructed his followers to "count the cost" of being a disciple.
Matthew 16:24-25 "Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it."
Luke 14:26-27 "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple."
Apostle Paul in his second epistle to Timothywrote in ch.
3:12 "Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."
This life, where millions are struggling with poverty, hunger, violence of war and disease, it is not the time and place to enjoy ourselves.
Romans 15:1-3 "We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification. For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me."
Jesus did however teach joy and inner peace, which is not happiness but a little foretaste of the heavenly bliss in the midst of this life's troubles.
Matthew 5:11-12 "Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you."
John 14:27 "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."
And that, my friend, can only come from God, the Holy Spirit. There is no workshop, or a seven step program that will give you that peace and confidence, only God.
Romans 15:13 "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost."
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