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[Music] Speaking from Pasadena Covenant Church, Dr. Bruce W. Thielman brings you a message, Life in J Major. [Music]

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I'm glad to be here in Southern California again. It is good to see old friends and to make new friends. I'd like to ask that we focus our attention now on the gospel according to John, the 15th chapter, the passage beginning at the verse numbered 1.

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I am reading... [Inaudible] And my father is the vine dresser. Every branch of mine that bears no fruit...

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[Inaudible] As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless... He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.

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If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers, and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. By this my father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples.

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As the father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my father's commandments, and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

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And may the same God who inspired these words, incline our hearts to their understanding. Let us pray. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen. It's recorded numerous times in the Gospels that our Lord went apart for private times,

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separated moments, when he walked the valleys alone. Some have suggested that he did this in order to give vent to his emotion, to shed tears without his disciples being aware of his weeping. Now there is no doubt that our Lord bore within himself great sadnesses.

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But I discover in the Gospels references in which he cried quite openly. He did not hesitate to weep at the tomb of his friend Lazarus. He did not hesitate to cry over the city he specially loved, Jerusalem. So it's difficult for me to imagine that these times of separation were principally for the expression of sadness.

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Then there are those who say that he went apart because he wanted to release his anger. He wanted to let all the frustration that was boiling inside erupt, without anyone else being disturbed with the sight of it. Again, I find in the Scripture references evidence that our Lord never hesitated to express his emotions.

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He told the Pharisees exactly what he thought of them, and he didn't hesitate to make a thong of leather cords and to knock all the tables of the money changers down the very front steps of the temple. So I don't believe that he went apart for that purpose. There are some who say that he went into separation because he wanted time for private devotion,

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for prayer and for meditation, and I suppose that to some degree that's true. Yet Jesus entered regularly into public communal acts of worship, and at that time when his prayer experience was deepest and most intense, that is, in Gethsemane when he prayed and the agony of it caused him to sweat, as it were, great drops of blood,

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in that moment of great intensity he did not want to be alone, but took three disciples with him to pray with him. So I don't really think that the primary purpose of this time apart and separation was for the purpose of personal meditation and prayer. Now I would be bold enough to say this morning that Jesus went apart when he wanted to chuckle, and that in fact the valleys of loneliness that he walked echoed with the sounds of his laughter.

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I think Jesus went off because he was afraid we might misunderstand his magnificent mirth. Now don't misunderstand me. I am not suggesting that Jesus did not sometimes find himself moved to the very depths with the sadnesses and the tragedies of life. I am quite sure that this was true of him, because you see, persons who have a great joy also have a great sensitivity to sadness. The individual who is unable to hurt will never really be able to know the joy and the enthusiasm of real freedom and rejoicing.

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I'm convinced, you see, that Jesus was the sunniest soul that ever lived, and I think precisely because he lived in the key of J major, because there was joy in his experience, he could both feel more deeply the hurt of people and also overflow with happiness because of the joy he found in the living of life. Isn't it true that when you want real encouragement, real joy, you don't turn on Milton Berle or listen to Bob Hope.

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They may entertain for a moment, but when you want someone to really massage your heart, you go to the person who has known sadness and come through it with radiance. That's the kind of person that lifts us and enkindles us. And so it was with Jesus. Yes, Jesus wept, but there was about his life always, it seems to me, a magnificent note of joy.

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He called himself water, not stagnant water, but living water, the kind of water that dances and flashes and ripples and sings. And although there were the deep bass notes of sorrow in his life, there was also the tinkle of the triangle and the sweep of the violin. And the whole symphony of his experience, I think, was a J major symphony, a joy major life. I was sitting in the British Royal Museum in London, and in the seat where I was sitting, I could see two great masterpieces simultaneously.

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On the one hand, Peter Paul Rubens' picture of Christ and St. Peter, a very stern, forbidding representation of the master. And on the other hand, I could see Rembrandt van Rijn's The Laughing Cavalier, a glowing, radiant personality just bursting with smiles and happiness. Now, Peter Paul Rubens never saw Jesus, and neither have I, which means I have just as much right to guess what Jesus looked like as Peter Paul Rubens did. And I think he looked much more like the Laughing Cavalier.

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I think that the note of his life was that kind of joy. It had to be, else how? On the very last night of his earthly experience, on the night when he knows separation from his friends, on the night when he anticipates the next morning the cross on which he will be crucified, how is it that in the midst of that night, he no less than eight different times talks to his disciples about joy,

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and culminates his teaching on the subject with this word? "These words have I said to you, that my joy might be in you, and that your joy might be full." Now, to say those words in that context, you either have to be insane, or in touch with sources of joy that keep your life in J-major always.

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And it was this latter that was true of our Lord. He found, for example, always great joy in God. His was a valiant faith, a confidence in God which never lessened. There was in him never the slightest suspicion of God.

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He knew God was always planning for him that which was for his own good. This is the reason he could say in all of his life, "Do what thou wilt with me, for your ideas are always better than mine are." I recently had occasion to play a joke on a turtle.

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I live next to a creek. It's a very famous creek because it was beside this creek that the first settlers in our area of Pennsylvania erected a mill, a grist mill and later a saw mill.

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And I live in the house that was built by that first miller, or rather by his children. He was killed by the Indians, and then his children built this house. It's 132 years old.

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It's a great old place, and I love it very much. In any case, I was down by the creek one day, and there was this big turtle. And I decided to play a joke on him. So I took him with me for the day.

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It was the first day that turtle ever heard an organ play. It was the first day he ever heard 2,000 college kids sing. It was the first day he ever heard a radio or felt air conditioning or had a ride in an automobile.

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It was the first day that he ever was spawned over by secretaries and had a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich for lunch. It was the first day for him in a lot of different regards. And at the end of the day, I took him back and put him on precisely the same rock

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where I had found him. Now, maybe it was my imagination, but I believe that as I sat on my back porch that night and listened to the sounds from the creek,

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the frogs and the turtles and the water crickets and all the rest of it, I believe they were noisier than I ever heard them before. And I know why. Because he was telling them about what he'd experienced that day,

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and none of them believed it. [laughter] He is probably known as Tommy the Tetch Turtle still. The fact of the matter was what they didn't believe was absolutely true.

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He had experienced every bit of it. Just so I think our Lord Jesus, knowing all the truth that is to be found in God, knowing all the reward that is stored up for the saints,

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knowing all the care and the love and the concern and the confidence that God sheds in our lives all the time, knowing all of this, even though those about him said he was tetched, there was this joy, this tremendous peace,

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this fountain welling up that could not be contained. You know how people talk about their operations. Now, they don't talk about their operations as they're preparing for surgery. They don't even want to bring up the subject then.

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And they don't talk about it for the first two or three days after it's over. But when they start feeling pretty good again, then they start talking about their operations and how they came through with dignity and with power.

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They start to laugh. They tell you how they went into the hospital and they wanted to remain very dignified and composed. And then they gave them one of those hospital gowns

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that comes about three inches below your waist. You want to go like this all the time. And there's no way to be dignified and composed in one of those things, no way at all.

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And then they put you on a cart and they wheel you down to x-ray. You feel like a child in a kiddie car. And then they tell you to go over and sit in that chair. And you sit on the chair and it's steel and it's so cold.

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That gown accentuates it, you see. And then you go through being wakened at 2 o'clock in the morning for a sleeping pill and that kind of stuff. I had one friend who said that he got shots all the time he was in the hospital

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and the needles kept getting longer and longer. And one day at about 6 o'clock, a fellow wearing a white uniform walked into his room with a six-foot pole and a bucket.

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And he said, "Good heavens, what are you going to do to me?" And the man said, "Relax, I'm just the janitor and I'm here to wash your transom." So we laugh about those experiences after they're over, after we've accomplished the victory.

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But our Lord, you see, could laugh in the midst of the valley, could laugh in the midst of the upper room scene, could know the joy because, you see, Jesus had such confidence in God, He knew it would end this way.

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He knew that victory would finally be His. He knew that all the things for which He prayed would come to pass. And so even when He walked through the valley of the shadow, He could walk through it with a confidence which filled Him with joy overflowing.

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"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee." Jesus had that trust and out of it came His joy. And also He found joy in the excitement of life,

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in the surprising things that God does in life. He addressed lilies as kings and saw them trembling against the April wind. He looked at oleander bushes and thought of Mediterranean foam. He walked with naked feet along the edge of Galilee

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and felt the chilling thrill of that icy water as it touched Him and saw dragonflies spin-drying their wings. And at night when He'd stretch out on the roof of a house, He'd look up and see that Syrian moon,

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which is the biggest moon in all the world. And He knew the delight of looking down into a deep well and discovering His own face reflected looking back at Him. I think Jesus delighted in all those things.

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He didn't go through life in bedroom slippers. He went through life in dancing shoes. He waltzed through the course of His days. He opened doors without knocking.

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He hummed on the back steps and not only hymns. And how do I know this is true? Well, the common people heard Him gladly. They gathered about Him and listened to Him with great joy

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because He was a joyous person. And the children loved Him so much so that the disciples called them nuisances. Children, you know, always tell it the way it is. A few weeks ago in western Pennsylvania, I preached a sermon

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and the youngster had been brought to church for the first time. His parents told me that afterwards. It was his first service and I, of course, wanting to support him and encourage him in this, bent down and said to him, "How did you like it?"

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And he said he thought the music was great, but he thought my commercial was too long. So they tell it the way it is, you see. They've got that freedom and they were free with Him because that same freedom and joy was to be found in Him.

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And when Jesus described Himself, He spoke of Himself in joyous terms. He saw Himself as a bridegroom on the happiest day of a bridegroom's life. He saw Himself as the best winemaker in all of Galilee. He didn't hesitate to say, "My life is so scintillating and valuable

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like the worth of an infinite pearl that you should go out and sell absolutely everything that you have in order to get hold of Me." And His speech regularly bubbled with laughter. He invented words and ideas and launched superlatives, which still delight us.

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He sees some gnats flying around, being given St. Vitus dance by the sun and doing their crazy ballet, just dancing and dancing and dancing, a kind of a black constellation. And He knows that in God's time, that's going to become a constellation as bright as the stars.

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And He sees the pathetic Pharisees swatting at these gnats and straining at these gnats and sweating over these gnats. And He looks at them and He says, "Behold, they strain at gnats and they swallow first the two humps, then the long hairy neck,

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then the four flat feet, then that great pile of joints and that half acre of ugly skin and the most arrogant lip in the world. Behold, the camel that brought the wise men is now being swallowed by them." This was the kind of hyperbole He would enter into,

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the kind of humor that was evident in His speech. Wouldn't it have been exciting to have walked down a Palestinian street with Jesus, to see some marketeer haggling over whether he should throw in the fifth pigeon or the fifth sparrow for half a penny or not.

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And we'd look at it and say, "Parsimony." And Jesus looked at it and said, "Let me tell you about God." Or here's a leper lying off in the shadows, covered over with sores and with rags and with vermin.

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And we turn away, blank-faced, not trying to show any emotion. And Jesus walks over to him, all ready for God's surprise, to touch him like some grub that the sun touches and then transforms it into a butterfly.

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And He walks down the road and He sees a miserable wretch named Zacchaeus who climbs up into a tree and He thinks to Himself, "If this government official has enough openness to climb up in a tree to see me, maybe God has a surprise for him."

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And He risks the acclamation of a whole wildly cheering city in order to minister to that one man, looking for the surprises, the excitement that God brings into life, into every human experience, if we're only sensitive to it.

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Go into that upper room and sit around the table, splotched with lamplight. Here are two disciples, big, burly, well-muscled, temporary type guys, thunderous. Jesus says, "With these I will win the world." And we say, "It's not very likely, I mean, not really."

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Here's Simon Peter, who has a reputation of being fickle and a trifle undisciplined and not too dependable. And Jesus says, "On this rock I will build my church." And we say, "You're not really serious about that, are you?"

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But you see, He would cause these surprising things to come to pass because He had expected them. He opened Himself up to them. He saw the potentials that were there.

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He saw life as joy. And that's the reason He said to His disciples, "Come to me and I will give you life, and I will give you life abundantly." Oh, make no mistake, I'm not trying to make our Savior into some kind of jester or clown,

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but I am saying that across the greatest deeps of His life there always moved the sound of a constant laughter. He not only found joy in God and joy in life, He found joy in serving others.

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His happiness came from offering Himself in ministry to others. I suppose I shouldn't say this because being the dean of chapel at a large college I'm supposed to be frightfully intellectual, but I never really liked Milton's Paradise Lost.

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Now I'm willing to confess that it's a great piece of English literature, but frankly it turns me off. And the reason it does is because the most exciting and dynamic character in it is the devil. And that should not be.

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There's nothing exciting or dynamic about the devil. What is more boring than sin? Now I mean I challenge any of you, can you mention a single new sin that's come up in the last hundred years?

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They're the same old sins. The romance in life, you see, is to be discovered in the spiritual experience. And the sin in life is just the same old bleached brokenness. And Jesus found His greatest joy in doing battle with that brokenness,

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in making whole what was fractured, in serving those who needed to be lifted, in offering Himself in ministry to them in the name of His Father and for the sake of their very lives.

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That's the reason He says in the Sermon on the Mount, "Who's really happy?" Happy are those who stand for what is right. Filled with joy are those who are overcome with a great sympathy for mankind. Blessed are those who love goodness as much as they love food and drink.

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And most joyous, He says, are the sincere, those who want so much to have peace that they're willing to manufacture it, and those who will suffer for righteousness' sake. These are the blessed. These are the happy. These are the joyous ones.

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This is the reason that Jesus on that last night confronting the cross could have the joy which was His. He found His greatest happiness in serving His Father. And the cross was the supreme act of that service.

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He found His greatest delight in serving others. And the cross was the greatest act of love from Him to us. The writer to Hebrews is far within the mark when he says, "Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross,

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despising the shame, and is seated now at the right hand of the throne of God?" This is Jesus depending on service to give Him joy. Who was it that said, "I have had more fun in life than anyone else who has ever lived"? That's a direct quotation.

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Who said, "I have had more fun in life than anyone else who has ever lived"? That was not said by some world traveler who had just returned from a new adventure. And it was not said by some sensualist who had just come back from some lustful experience. Not at all.

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Those words were uttered by Dr. Frank Laubach, the great missionary, who gave his whole life to teaching people to read for the glory of Jesus Christ. He said, "When people discover they can read, women start to weep and men go hysterical and it's a ball to watch it all."

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That's what he said. And he was involved, you see, in service. Grenfell, who was the servant of Christ in Labrador, comes to Johns Hopkins University. And they're so smart there, of course, they never laugh.

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And he comes into that situation. And being there, he says, "I want you to come with me to a place where you will not make a single cent, where you in fact will have to pay your own expenses, but I will offer to you an experience in life so filled with joy that you will never be able to forget it."

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And they went after him. They followed him there, young men and women, serving Christ, serving others, and discovering that joy. Or stand with me in a small mission hospital in Korea

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and watch a woman doctor as she finishes an operation. There's no air conditioning, no fans. The smell of the anesthetic is so heavy that you're almost overcome. And when the surgery is over, you step out and you say to her,

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"How much would you have been paid for that operation in the States?" And she says, "Well, I would have probably gotten about $500." And you say, "Well, how much did you get for it here?" And she reaches in her pocket and she shows you a bent coin

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that was given to her by the old lady on whom she just performed the operation. But she said, "I also got more than the coin. I got the inexpressible joy of having Jesus use my hands to heal." That's where the joy comes from.

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That's where his joy comes from. That's where our joy comes from. I wish I had the words to express it. The great frustration which I always encounter in preaching

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is not to be able to come up with the right words, the words to express what I'm trying to say. I wish I could offer you some kind of a formula this morning. Of course, you probably wouldn't be interested in that

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because formulas aren't very interesting. You see, that's the whole problem. And we're talking about the most interesting and exciting thing in life. I wish I had the creative genius of Mel White,

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who's the best Christian communicator in the whole world. You know, if I were Mel White, I'd turn around now and say, "Spin around," and there would be in the whole thing, you know. I can't do--I think of trying to go back and do something like the Old Testament prophets,

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you know, "Take a vase and break it," or "Bury my loincloth in the mud by the river." And I'm not able to do those things. I can bring to you testimonies like Dr. Clarence Little, a prominent cancer specialist who says that cancer is much less frequent in joyous people

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than it is in sad people. Or I could bring you the testimony of Dr. Schwindler, who said that unhappy people get sick much more frequently, in fact, three times as often as happy people do.

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Or I could share with you some of the new behaviorist exercises which have been developed to make you feel joyous. You stand in front of the mirror in the morning, and it says a very picturesque phrase.

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You're supposed to make your face look like a wet wash on a rainy day, you know. And then, with your face looking like that, you know, the dark side of the moon, then you say, "Joy." And when you say, "Joy," it makes the ends of your mouth come up, you see.

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And you're supposed to keep saying, "Joy," and you're supposed to imagine joy 20 feet to your right and joy 20 feet to your left and in front of you and behind you. And really, it does make you feel better, but that's,

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that, you see, is not the kind of joy that I'm talking about. The joy I'm talking about is what Jesus talks about when He says, "These things I have said unto you that My joy, Jesus' joy, might be in you, and that your joy might be full."

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The only way that you can have Jesus' joy is, of course, to have Jesus. The only way you can experience that in you is when Christ has taken up residence in you. Please turn your cassette to the other side. When I see someone who is joyless, I wonder if they've met Him or if they've invited Him in.

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The disciples who were in truth His disciples had this joy. When they were beaten for their faith, they rejoiced that they were able to suffer for His name. When they threw them into jail, they sang hymns. Doesn't say what hymns, but I don't think they were singing,

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"Abide with me, fast falls the eventide." I think they were singing, "Christ to the upward way, my guide divine." That kind of singing was theirs. When they ridiculed them, they stood tall because His joy was in them.

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And when I meet one of these Christians whose, well, whose face looks like they're haunted by the fear that somewhere, somebody may be happy. That is so contradictory to what the whole faith is to be. This passage about joy begins with Jesus talking about the vine and the branches.

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That's the first part of the passage. Now the biggest vine that I know is at Hampton Court, which is outside of London. And that, it's called the Hampton Bowl. That vine is 81 inches around and it's 114 feet long.

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And it produces about 2200 bunches of these great big Hambrow grapes every year. Now the interesting thing about this vine is, the farther you get from the great pulsating life center of that vine, the smaller things become until at the end you get to these little tendrils, you know, that are so fragile that anything breaks them at all and no grapes grow on them at all, of course.

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Well, it seems to me that these people are far from the vine when they're so easily broken and when they don't produce any sweetness. But get back into the vines that are close to the vine, the branches that are attached to the real center, the throbbing center of the thing,

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and they produce, well, sun-touched, sun-splattered sweetness beyond my abilities to describe. When I find a joyless Christian, I want to ask him, "My friend, is the difficulty perhaps that for all these years you've been coming to church when you should have been coming to Christ?"

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It's not a matter of straining after him. It's just a matter of yielding to him. You don't have to reach for the sun. You just have to let it flood into you.

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And it's when you open yourself and invite him in that his joy in God and in life and in service becomes part of you. And you are enabled to sing the song the great saints of the church have sung for a thousand years. All people that on earth do dwell sing to the Lord.

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How? With cheerful voice. Him serve. How? Him serve with mirth. His praise forth tell. Come ye before him and do what?

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Come ye before him and rejoice! Paul, rejoice! And again I say, rejoice! That's the way we're to be living.

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We're in Christ. And that's J Major. God bless you in your living of that kind of life. Will you pray with me?

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Oh God our Father, we thank thee that we can open our lives to Christ and that he enters in and that with him comes a peace, a happiness, a power, a joy, a beauty which sustains and strengthens and uplifts and enkindles and encourages and enables and enthuses

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and makes us what you want us to be. Praise God. Amen. (static buzzing)