Pastor Mike shows how the true meaning of happiness, even through tough times, can be found in Psalm 1.

2. Question to Answer Today:
Is there something in this world that can give me true and
lasting happiness?

3. Moral Therapeutic Deism
1. Moral – If I do Good, or If I am a “generally” good
person...
2. Deism – and some sort of God exists…
3. Therapeutic – then I deserve to be happy.

4. 1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the
wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat
of scoffers; 2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on
his law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a tree
planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
4 The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind
drives away. 5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the
judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
6 for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of
the wicked will perish.
Psalm 1:1-6

5. “Ours is a time in which those who have no room for God
are ever ready and eager to offer advice to those who are
living for God. This advice is all around. It crops up in
personal conversations, in magazine and newspaper
articles, in movies and television shows. All of these – and
others too – join their voices in the incessant, pounding cry:
‘Live like this! It’s fun! You’ll be glad you did!’”

6. “Here, we uncover a profoundly significant fact: In our culture,
among Christians and non-Christians alike, Jesus Christ is
automatically disassociated from brilliance or intellectual
capacity. Not one in a thousand will spontaneously think of him
in conjunction with these words.”
“Would you be able to trust your life to such a person? If this is
how he seems to you, are you going to be inclined to become
his student? Of course not. We all know that action must be
based on knowledge, and we grant the right to lead and teach
only to those who we believe to know what is real and what is
best.”
– Dallas Willard (in “Divine Conspiracy.”)

7. Jesus’ Resume
1. He created everything known, and unknown. John 1:1-5
2. He currently holds all things together. Colossians 1:17
3. He knows how to rearrange the molecular structure of water,
to make it into wine. John 2:6-11
4. He knows how to make dead things live. John 11:38-44
5. He can heal a person without physically present with them.
John 4:46-54
6. He can command bones that have never been correctly set,
to rearrange and repair simply by His command. John 5:1-
13
7. AND A WHOLE LOT MORE!

8. Today’s Big idea: I am all you need!

9. Challenge:
If God really is all that I need, then I should pursue Him
more!