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Michael Jackson's Elusive Joy
Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Jul 2, 2009 (message contributor)
Summary: What Is My Outlook For Life? 1. Life is not necessarily a life of comfort and ease. 2. Life is not dependent on outside circumstances. 3. Life is not glamorous, flashy or outwardly impressive.
15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: .....Proverbs 14:12KJV – Prov. 16:25
12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
Romans 6:20-21The Message
20–21 As long as you did what you felt like doing, ignoring God, you didn’t have to bother with right thinking or right living, or right anything for that matter. But do you call that a free life? What did you get out of it? Nothing you’re proud of now. Where did it get you? A dead end.
Celebrity Deaths
Ed McMahon “Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson
Farrah Fawcett “Charlie’s Angels”
Gale Storm “My Little Margie” 1952 - One of the first sitcom stars
Billy Mays - TV commercial pitchman
- Jackson world’s most recognizable entertainer
- Amazed at the coverage of Jackson
- ABC & NBC give total time for 2 days on Jackson
- WASHINGTON (CNN) – The House of Representatives held a
moment of silence Friday morning to mark the passing of legendary singer Michael Jackson.
- Every soldier who dies in combat deserves a moment of silence
- Called King of Pop
- Only one King
- MJ music did not save lives or change lives in anyway
- Garnered every award known to the recording industry
- 1984 Ronald Reagan gave Presidential Humanitarian Awdard
- 1990 George HW Bush Presidential Award Artist of the Decade
- Jackson rose from childhood stardom in The Jackson Five to
become one of the most influential singers, songwriters and performers in pop history
- Sold an estimated 750 million records worldwide, revolutionizing pop music and winning 13 Grammy Awards
- Thriller is the Guinness World Records for the largest selling album in history
- "Thriller," He appears as a zombie.
- Giving you his mind set
It’s close to midnight and something evil’s lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
You’re paralyzed
Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one’s gonna save you from the beast about strike
You know it’s thriller, thriller night
You’re fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight
- Selling a million copies a week worldwide becoming the best
selling of all time
- Earning $4.1 billion in it and spin offs
- Sleeping in a pressurized oxygen chamber to live to 150
— IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD HE HAD IT ALL
- Michael grew up in the Jehovah’s Witnesses
- During his 2005 trial for child molestation he turned to Kaballah
- (Popularized by Madonna)
- Sp. Advisor Deepak Chopra New Age Guru
- Mar. 18/09 - Michael Jackson Wants to Be Plastinated
(a technique for preserving corpses)
- Inventor - "I could give Michael the gift of physical immortality
- TIME reported: He was Deformed by Surgery. Warped by Fame
& Overwhelmed by Loneliness
- Michael was bankrupt in the things that really matter in life
— Joy, Peace, Contentment, Hope!
- Those things only comes through having a personal relationship
with Jesus Christ and living according to God’s Word.
8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
What Is My Outlook For Life?
1. Life is not necessarily a life of comfort and ease.
2. Life is not dependent on outside circumstances.
3. Life is not glamorous, flashy or outwardly impressive.
Joy Is a Choice an Attitude
4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
❶. Adjust Your Thinking
- What you let into your mind
1 Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
❷. Maintain a Grateful Heart
- Joy stealers such as Discontentment, Guilt, Fear, Unbelief,
Selfishness, Anger, robs our joy
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
❸. Focus on True Hope
- Disciplines of Christian Life — Prayer, Worship, Bible Study,
