Finding True Happiness Through God's Love and Forgiveness

1. "One of the things that I've noticed through 40 years or so being a church leader is that we churches don't always communicate very well the idea that the creator and sustainer of the universe actually cares about your happiness my happiness our happiness we tend to say things that well you know God doesn't care about your happiness he cares about your holiness he cares about your character he cares about your submissiveness he cares about your obedience and I say yes to all those but I'm not going to they are means to our happiness." [44:10] (35 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "The good news is this all of us can be what is the word happier than we are my goal in this series and the goal I know of the Lord is that each of us can become happier that is not inconsistent with holier more obedient more submissive more Christlike they merge you can't be happier you can't be any of those things that we want apart from living in accord with God's will." [45:31] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "Your soul my soul it is it is incredibly complex incredibly sensitive therefore easily damaged and when our soul is knowingly or unknowingly damaged when we understand that it's damaged or don't understand it it diminishes our happiness our experience of happiness now we don't often know that it's diminishing our experience of happiness we get so used to it sometimes that we just kind of learn to live with it but it does." [52:17] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "You want to be happy there's nothing wrong with that God wants you to be happy it's just that you and I don't know what brings it and even when we do know what brings it God's will is it's revealed in his word because evil is existent in this world it still diminishes our ability to experience it as as ultimately and as perfectly as God wants us to and promises we will someday nevertheless we still can be happier and that can be enormous and that can be enormous and that can be enormous and that can be enormous and that can be enormous in our in our daily experience." [53:39] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "I need to know that I'm going to tell you something a human being can forgive me and that feels really good that's helpful that that's important but it's not enough if I don't know that God the creator of the sustainer universe the the one that's always available in my soul always available in my mind if I want him to be there I got to know that he looks at me and says you know I I have nothing against you you're okay you're okay Randy I I forgive you." [58:11] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "I need to know I need to know that there's no condemnation when there's no condemnation when God looks at me and there's no condemnation I have no fear we sang that song I'm no longer a slave to fear I don't have to be uncomfortable and afraid of God I need that and you need that that affects human happiness more than we can ever imagine knowing that the creator of the universe looks at us with eyes that are forgiving and there's no condemnation if you put your trust in Christ and become his follower." [01:01:02] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "If God doesn't remember them he doesn't want you and i listen christ went to a cross and sacrificially gave himself on a cross so that you and i may not have to remember and be tormented forever by the things that we've done yeah thank you for sure so if god says i'm not going to remember it anymore i went to a cross to eliminate it he doesn't want you to be endlessly tormented and your happiness unnecessarily diminished because of unresolved or inefficiently resolved guilt and often the shame that comes from the inefficiently resolved guilt and the fear and the foreboding and the insecurity and and all the other things that tend to follow with it." [01:05:28] (47 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "When we leave this body we are not out of existence and so if we can look at death in the eye and know with certainty that there's life after death it enables us to live with a bit more courage a bit more boldness and way way way more wisdom because when we're driven by the fear of death we're reckless we do stupid things." [01:18:31] (25 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "If you're timeless if you're indestructible if this is just a short developmental journey if this is the caterpillar part of the journey and the butterfly part is going to last forever if this is the world where we're just trying to be a little happier because the existence of evil makes it impossible to be as happy as we want to be but but it's just a little happier but the world that is awaiting us a real world a real dimension an everlasting one it has all the perfect happiness that we've ever wanted and if i know it and i know it's there well i i live this life a little differently and it empowers me to experience at least a happier life in the here and now." [01:19:55] (51 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10. "If you know if you know that you have a job that you don't have a job that you don't have a job that you don't have a job you in essence own the company you've got an inheritance i don't know if anybody here's ever got an inheritance or knew that you had an inheritance coming but it it will give you a capacity to go through less than ideal circumstances for an indefinite period of time because you know something you know at the end of this thing you have something wonderful and worthy waiting it's waiting for you it's yours nothing can stop it you own the company laugh at me if you want but i own the company ultimately." [01:27:18] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)