The promise of happiness

THE PROMISE OF HAPPINESS IS ON THE PATHWAY OF HAPPY THINKING

11-19-17 This message may be viewed live streaming video at www.tabernacleofmoses.org commencing today Sunday at 11:00 am, and repeated 24/7 for one week; thereafter, the video, audio, and study notes are archived.

The brightness of our revelations depend upon the correctness of our doctrines (our building blocks)

STANDING ON THE ROCK

(2 Sam 22:1-3) And [King] David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of [King] Saul: And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; The God of my rock [“my God is my rock” NIV]; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn [Heb: power] of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence [Heb: wrong; unjust gain: damage, false, injustice].

1. moral = Dict: (manners or customs); moral quality or character; rightness or wrongness, as of an action.

(Mat 7:24-27) Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings [Gk: logos; words] of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand [Gk: sand (as heaped on the beach)]: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

1. Commentary: “sand” always thought of in the plural, is a heap of very tiny little rocks, each with a different theology, moral compass, rules, “sayings” that adherents are to obey and follow.

STANDING ON THE SAND: Sacred texts of various religions:

12 Christianity

30 Native American Church

31 New Age religions

32 Orphism

33 Raëlism

34 Rastafari movement

48 Unarius Academy of Science

49 Unification Church

(Gen 1:1-3) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face [anthropomorphism] of the deep [that’s you, and me]. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

1. without form = Heb: to lie waste, a desolation, desert; fig. a worthless thing: confusion, empty place, vanity, wilderness.

2. void = Heb: to be empty; a vacuity, (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin: emptiness.

3. darkness = Heb: the dark; fig. misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness: night.

6. Commentary: Why did Father God do this? Answer: because “God is Love” (1 John 4:8,16), and God wants happiness or us.

7. Commentary: From our point-of-view, Father God speaks to us in symbols and uninteligable codes (a series of symbols) as a loving father speaks to his babyish children. Envision a loving father speaking to his one week (+ -) old son or daughter.

(Psa 1:1-3) Blessed [Heb: happy] [522x in the Bible] is the man that walketh not in the counsel [Heb: advice] of the ungodly [because they don’t think like we do, i.e., they follow different patterns of thought and therefore adhere to different rules that are foundational to those thought patterns], nor standeth in the way [Heb: road (as trodden)] of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD [i.e., in the Bible]; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree [Heb: a tree (from its firmness)] planted by the rivers of water [symbol of the Holy Spirit nourishing us that we may grow], that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper [be happy].

1. prosper = Heb: to push forward: break out, be good, be profitable, prosperous. [be happy]

(Psa 1:4-6) The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff [the husks, separated from the seed] which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish [Heb: to wander away, to lose oneself: be destroyed]. [i.e., definitely not happy]

(1 John 4:18-21) There is no fear [Gk: fright: be afraid] in love; but perfect [Gk: complete: of full age] [matured] love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

1. Commentary: Jesus said to believers “be not afraid” eight times and “fear not” seven times.

(Mat 22:34-40) But when the Pharisees had heard that he [Jesus] had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting [Gk: testing] him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang [“sum up and upon them depends” Amplif. Bible] all the law and the prophets.

1. (Lev 19:18) Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.