This sermon dwells on the seminal work by Cloud & Townsend to develop a comprehensive theology of the relationship between Love, Joy, Desire, and Happiness.

1. Ernest N. Prabhakar
DrErnie@RadicalCentrism.org
“Road to Joy”
A Boundaries Remix
Sunday AM Servce
May 1st, 2011
Kingsway Community Church
San Jose, CA

3. The Joy of Owning
My Reality
In Submission To
God‟s Reality

4. God
Joy
Me You

5. John 15:10-12 (NIV)
10 If you keep my commands, you will remain
in my love, just as I have kept my Father‟s
commands and remain in his love.
11 I have told you this so that my joy may be
in you and that your joy may be complete.
12 My command is this: Love each other as I
have loved you.

6. Process
JoyLoveObedience

7. Questions
A. What is Joy?
B. How can I continue in Obedience?
C. How does God Love us?

8. A. Joy

9. Fulfilling My Purpose

10. Purpose
• Happiness
• I have fulfilled my purpose
• Joy
• I am fulfilling my purpose

11. Happiness
Desire Goalact

12. Frustration
Desire Goalnot

13. Joy
Desire Goalact

14. Joy is a Purposeful
Journey

15. Proverbs 19:21 (NIV)
• Many are the plans
• in a person‟s heart,
• but it is the LORD‟s
• purpose that prevails.

16. B. Personal Reality

17. Ownership
• Internal
• Desires
• Attitudes
• Values
I
External
•Talents
•Limits
•Behavior

18. Responsibility
• Responsible For Myself
• Responsible To Others
• People
• God

19. Myself
GrowRepentComplyReactInitiate

20. I already own
everything I need
to successfully
pursue joy

21. • Give to Them
• Receive from Them
Others
InfluenceTrustRespectForgive

22. I can not control you.
I can control my
boundaries with you.
That is enough.

23. Luke 6:41-42 (NKJV)
41 And why do you look at the speck in your
brother‟s eye, but do not perceive the plank in
your own eye? 42 Or how can you say to your
brother, „Brother, let me remove the speck
that is in your eye,‟ when you yourself do not
see the plank that is in your own eye?
Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your
own eye, and then you will see clearly to
remove the speck that is in your brother‟s
eye.

24. C. Ultimate Reality

25. God‟s Holiness
• Wisdom
• God‟s Counsel
• Power
• God‟s Greatness
• Love
• God‟s Goodness

26. Our Holiness
• Drive relentlessly toward growth and
development
• Give up everything that gets in the way of
love
• Surrender everything that gets in the way
of truth
• Prevent toxic contamination through purity
of heart

27. Everything

28. Romans 8:28 (NKJV)
And we know that all
things work together for
good to those who love
God, to those who are the
called according to His
purpose.

29. My life is uniquely,
lovingly, and
optimally designed
for my glory & joy...

30. ...not my comfort and
convenience

31. God‟s Will
• Preferred Will
• “Marriage as a source of comfort and support”
• Sovereign Will
• “Marriage as the crucible for making us holy”

32. Every trial is raw
material for making
us holy... and thus
increasing our joy.

33. Romans 5:3-5 (NCV)
3 We also have joy with our troubles, because
we know that these troubles produce
patience.
4 And patience produces character, and
character produces hope.
5 And this hope will never disappoint us,
because God has poured out his love to fill
our hearts. He gave us his love through the
Holy Spirit, whom God has given to us.

34. Application

35. The Road to Joy
• Invite God to (re)define
your reality.
• Listen to your soul.
• Listen to Him.
• Everything else will follow.

36. Response

37. The End
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