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hindering you in your fellowship and service. They cause you to be depressed. Do you have anything that makes you im– mobile? Sometimes the "broken" aspect is necessary so that as the pieces are knit together it gives God the time and op– portunity to speak to our hearts. True conviction of sin normally will carry both physical as well as the spiritual effects. David certainly knew exactly how this worked and how the results came to him. Joy and gladness are really the certain and inalienable rights of the in– dividual whose sins are forgiven. They are his positive posses– sion when fellowship with the Lord has been unbroken. It isn't something that comes as the pastime of the ages. Actual– ly, it's the perfect privilege of all who know the name of Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. And I'll tell you one thing, there's never going to be any kind of a trace of headache the morning after when these broken bones finally come to know joy and gladness once again through the power of God's Holy Spirit. Are We "Audience Sweeteners?" One reason why we should want joy and gladness in our lives is because these things are infectious. I was amazed a year or two ago to meet a man who has a most unusual oc– cupation. He's what is known as an "audience sweetener." That's right, an "audience sweetener." You see, what he does after a comedy show has been completed on video tape or film, is go into a small studio with all of his electronic mechanisms. He has an endless variety of tape recorded sounds of laughter, applause and the like. The laughter can be anywhere from a few voices to a thunderous guffaw. He watches the comedy program, which may or may not have any audience reactions on it at all and he puts in the sounds where he thinks they'll be effective. The philosophy behind this is that when the program comes out over the television screen, if you hear other people laughing, then you think surely the joke or sequence must be funny and you start
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