How to Be Happy According to Jesus (Study Guide)
Overview
Our culture claims that to be happy you need to be successful. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus offers a path to true joy. The Beatitudes provide a plan for finding real happiness. This guide is based on the scripture in Matthew 5:1-12.
Top Highlights
“Pleasure is an anesthesia for deadening the pain of their empty lives.” (Page 11)
“Third, there is practical purity, the everyday living sort of purity” (Page 80)
“A person hungering and thirsting after righteousness has a desire for God’s Word. It’s funny how that spiritual hunger works, for it’s the exact opposite of physical hunger. With physical hunger, you get hungry when you don’t eat. Once you’ve eaten, you are no longer hungry. With spiritual hunger, the more you eat, the hungrier you get. When you stop partaking of spiritual food though the Word of God, you lose your appetite. The more you get into the Bible, the more you begin to make sense of God’s Word in your life and the greater your appetite.” (Page 59)
“Mercy is love that is given when it is not deserved. It is forgiveness that is given when it is not earned. It is a gift that flows like a refreshing stream to quench the fires of angry, condemning words. It is called mercy, and in our day it’s almost a forgotten quality.” (Page 67)
“Dr. Joseph Fabry has said that the focus of a man’s life is the pursuit of meaning, not the pursuit of happiness.” (Page 34)
- Title: How to Be Happy according to Jesus (Study Guide)
- Author: David Jeremiah
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Print Publication Date: 1996
- Logos Release Date: 2004
- Pages: 126
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Christian life
- ISBNs: 9781418517472, 141851747X
- Resource ID: LLS:53.20.60
- Resource Type: text.monograph.study-guide
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-04-24T22:15:55Z
David Jeremiah (1941– ) is an author, evangelist, and senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church. Jeremiah holds degrees from Cedarville University and Dallas Theological Seminary. Before becoming the pastor at Shadow Mountian in 1981, Jeremiah began a church in Indiana and developed a Christian grade school.
In 1982, Jeremiah founded Turning Point Ministries: a 30-minute radio program that can be heard on over 1,800 stations worldwide. Jeremiah received numerous awards for his broadcasting and has served on the Board of Directors for the National Religious Broadcasters since 1996. Turning Point later launched a television program which offers a worship service and Bible study lesson.
Jeremiah is the author of numerous books on Christian theology topics including What the Bible Says about Angels, Sanctuary, Prayer: The Great Adventure, and many more. All of these titles, and numerous other study guides, commentaries and devotions by Jeremiah, can be found in the Jeremiah Lifeworks Library 2.0.