{"id":5890,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/are-you-happy\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:14","slug":"are-you-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/are-you-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Happy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Introductory sermon to series on Beatitudes.            Ecclesiastes 2:24-26<\/p>\n<p>                                 ARE YOU HAPPY?<br \/>\n                                 ==============<\/p>\n<p>     I. Our expectations in life.<br \/>\n         A. One sociologist&#8217;s observation.<br \/>\n         B. It is the goal of our whole culture.<br \/>\n         C. Yet many are miserable.<\/p>\n<p>    II. Meaning of &#8220;blessed.&#8221;                                          #2482<br \/>\n         A. Equivalent to &#8220;happy&#8221;?<br \/>\n         B. Bible&#8217;s view.<br \/>\n             1) Blessedness is not based on human emotions.<br \/>\n             2) It is based on what God thinks of us.<\/p>\n<p>   III. Earned or reflected?<br \/>\n         A. Some think you must gain these qualities in order to be saved.<br \/>\n         B. Beatitudes are intended for those who are already disciples.<\/p>\n<p>    IV. Future hope or present reality?<br \/>\n         A. Both are true.<br \/>\n         B. Neither are guaranteed.<br \/>\n         C. Are you his?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introductory sermon to series on Beatitudes. Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 ARE YOU HAPPY? ============== I. Our expectations in life. A. One sociologist&#8217;s observation. B. It is the goal of our whole culture. C. Yet many are miserable. II. Meaning of &#8220;blessed.&#8221; #2482 A. Equivalent to &#8220;happy&#8221;? B. Bible&#8217;s view. 1) Blessedness is not based on human emotions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1259,1112,444],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}