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Observe here, 1. The duty exhorted to: Christian cheerfulness and joy; a duty which glorifies God, adorns religion, is beneficial to ourselves, by enabling us to bear afflictions, to glory in them, and to triumph over them.
Observe, 2. The object of this duty, a glorious and replenishing object; Christ the Lord: Rejoice in the Lord.
3. The perpetuity and constancy of the duty: Rejoice alway; that is, at all times, and in all conditions.
4. The difficulty of the duty, implied in the repetition of the command: Again, I say, Rejoice.
From the whole note, 1. That the Lord Jesus Christ is the great, sure, and perpetual joy of his children and people.
2. That it is their duty to be joying in him always, and always rejoicing for him, and to rejoice in their knowledge fo him, in his undertaking for them, in their interest in him, in their influences of grace and comfort derived from him, in their hopes fo glory to be eternally enjoyed with him.
3. That to get the heart up to this duty, at all times, and in all conditions, is no easy work: therefore the exhortation is doubled: Rejoice alway; and again I say, Rejoice; pointing out how averse we are to this spiritual and very beneficial duty.