Robert McLaughlin Bible Ministries
The perfect happiness of God is more of an attitude toward life than it is the result of acquisitions and accomplishments.
Sunday, June 17, 2001
1TI 5:17b – Pastor-teachers must work hard to the point of exhaustion in the study of the word and the teaching of doctrine.
Perfect happiness of God the possession of God’s happiness (+H).
1JO 1:4 “And these things we write so our happiness may be made complete [brought to completion].”
The perfect happiness of God comes through the communication of doctrine, and it is a process which has to be completed.
“may be made full” aor-pass-subj pleroo
1. To fill up a deficiency.
2. To fully possess.
3. To fully influence
4. To fill with a certain quality.
If you remain in God’s plan for your life on a consistent basis, you will eventually experience the perfect happiness of God.
LUK 2:40 “And the Child continued to grow and become strong, increasing in wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him.”
LUK 2:52 “And Jesus kept increasing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.”
PHI 4:7 “It is the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, and guards your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
JOH 14:27 “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.”
The power that sustained our Lord on the cross, the omnipotence of God the Holy Spirit inside the PPOG, is now available to us as members of the royal family of God, HEB 9:14.
PSA 22:1, MAT 27:46 – TLJC was only forsaken by God the Father and not God the Holy Spirit.