07/03/2023
PLEASURE, HAPPINESS & JOY
There is a dimension of ventilation that the Body senses. When something good happens to your Body, the life of the flesh feels good. That ventilation that comes from your Body when something good happens to you is called PLEASURE. So, when you're in an air conditioned Room, you feel good, because it's interacting with your Body. There's no way the Air Condition can touch your Spirit. So, pleasure functions at the Fleshly REALM and if all you feel and experience is Pleasure, as beautiful as it is, in the realm of the Spirit, you're called '' A Dead Man '' 1Timothy 5:6 says that ''He that liveth for Pleasure is Dead while he walketh''.
There's another dimension of ventilation that the Soulish life experiences, this one is based on Circumstances. When someone gifts you a car, you start celebrating and Jubilating and if that car develops a fault two weeks later, you'll feel SAD. So, there's a dimension that can be regulated by circumstances, it's called HAPPINESS! Happiness is of of the Soul. Pleasure is of the Body while Happiness is of the Soul. Pleasure is regulated by interactions with the Flesh WHILE happiness is regulated by the multiple vicissitudes of life. If it's good, you're happy, but if it's bad you become Sad. Pleasure and Happiness fluctuates, a Believer cannot function from those dimensions.
If a believer functions by Pleasure, it means he's walking only at the lowest realm of Life. If a believer functions by Happiness, it means he's living at a higher realm, but that realm is stil disadvantaged because when the devil wants to frustrate his existence, he begins to touch the things around him.
But there's a realm where circumstances cannot manipulate, it's called JOY. Joy is the ventilation of the Spirit Life. It is not regulated by circumstances. So even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will Fear no evil. There's nothing that happens that can stagger you, you're like Mount Zion that cannot be mov