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HAPPINESS

• HAPPINESS OF EVIL PEOPLE:

  • Limited to this life
    Psalm 17:14; Luke 16:25

  • Is short
    Job 20:5

  • Is uncertain
    Luke 12:20

  • Is vain
    Ecclesiastes 2:1; 7:6

  • HAPPINESS OF EVIL PEOPLE DERIVED FROM:

    • Their wealth
      Job 21:13; Psalm 52:7

    • Their power
      Job 21:7; Psalm 37:35

    • Their worldly prosperity
      Psalm 17:14; 37:3-4, 7

• HAPPINESS OF EVIL PEOPLE:

  • HAPPINESS OF EVIL PEOPLE DERIVED FROM:

    • Their gluttony
      Isaiah 22:13; Habakkuk 1:16

    • Their drunkenness
      Isaiah 5:11; 56:12

    • Their vain pleasure
      Job 21:12; Isaiah 5:12

    • Their successful oppression
      Habakkuk 1:15

  • Marred by jealousy
    Esther 5:13

  • Often interrupted by judgments
    Numbers 11:33; Job 15:21; Psalm 73:18-20; Jeremiah 25:10, 11

  • Leads to sorrow
    Proverbs 14:13

  • Leads to recklessness
    Isaiah 22:12

  • Sometimes a stumbling block to saints
    Psalm 73:3, 16; Jeremiah 12:1; Habakkuk 1:13

  • Saints often permitted to see the end of
    Psalm 73:17-20

  • Envy not
    Psalm 37:1

  • Woe against
    Amos 6:1; Luke 6:25

  • Illustrated
    Psalm 37:35, 36; Luke 12:16-20; 16:19, 25
    
    

• EXAMPLES OF HAPPY PEOPLE WHO ARE EVIL:

  • Israel
    Numbers 11:33

  • Haman
    Esther 5:9-11

  • Belshazzar
    Daniel 5:1

  • Herod
    Acts 12:21-23
    
    

• HAPPINESS OF THE RIGHTEOUS
  Deuteronomy 33:29; Job 5:17-27; Psalm 36:8; 40:8; 63:5; 128:1, 2; 133:1; 144:15; 146:5; Proverbs 3:13-18; 14:21; 16:20; 28:14; 29:18; 3:12, Ecclesiastes 2:24-26; 13, 22; Isaiah 12:2, 3; Matthew 5:3-12; Romans 5:2; 2Corinthians 12:10; Philippians 4:7; 1Peter 3:14; 4:12, 13

  • See JOY,  PEACE,  PRAISE