I got struck sober by God 42 years ago. God is everything to me though Im not a Christian. Believe me when I tell you I see and experience Miracles all the time. You just have to look for them.
My parents played his shows as a kid and Im just now coming back around to them again. Why am I crying over all his jokes. I adore his take on God. Breaks up the fear I have in everyday life and replaces it with a little giggle in my heart.
Hes been thru one of them there naders. Thats a miracle in itself ! Im pentecostal andwas baptist before i was converted. You can have miracles in your life too. God is not looking for a religion, Hes lookin for a relationship
Thomas Vincent, going from Baptist to Pentecostal is NOT changing RELIGIONS, they are both Christianity, it's merely changing denominations. Changing religions would be like if they went from Christianity to Buddhism, or Mormonism, or Jehovah's Witness. Not the same thing at all.
@@suziequzie1961 I know that Susanne Fluker, but you have got to remember that a lot of people who say they are Christian think that if you are Christian and went to Baptist church and then changed to Pentecost that they changed religion.
That is why Mark Lowery is such a comedy genius. He slips in those really intense and profound Throughs that slip by some people . God bless you and Angel Watching over us ! Safe in the Master hand! Blessed ♥✝ Update 11/10/2018✝♥
when you get into your car and start the engine ,you have no doubt it will start,ya automaticly turn the key and expect it to start..that dear brother is faith, when you go to grab a chair and sit do you stop and wonder to yourself : gee will this chair support me or crash? I doubt if you do that you grab the chair and sit in it.. that is faith. Your faith will grow especially when tested. Stand firn brother.😉
I get it! I’m gonna live through COVID-19. I’ve lived through cancer and a lotta other stuff. I ought to have a better attitude about the mess we’re in. I don’t want to look out from the coffin and say that I would have had a better time if I’d know I was going to live through it. HE gave me a now life so I need a new attitude and stop worrying and complaining about the mess we’re in.
jhbunny Amen! That’s the spirit!!! The spirit which comes from THE HOLY SPIRIT!!! Don’t worry! He’s got it all UNDER HIS CONTROL! And HE can do NO WRONG! Tell yourself this: My God is far tougher and far rougher than the toughest and roughest of challenges and disasters on earth and the universe COMBINED! OUR GOD IS SO GREAT SO STRONG AND SO MIGHTY...THERE’S NOTHING TOO TOUGH OR TOO DIFFICULT FOR OUR GOD!! I also encourage you to remember this: “To live is Christ and to die is gain”! So for those of us who belong to Christ, we can never die...because when we die in Him, we LIVE! God blesses! Keep your eyes on Jesus...not on the storm! ❤️😊👍
I was in Kentucky several years ago on a Singles. Retreat and I sang with a group called Single Heart. We opened for Mark Lowery! I laughed my head off! He is so funny and such a fabulous guy! Love you ALOT Mark ! Come to Mississippi UBETCHA BUBBA! BE SAFE & WELL! FROM A BAPTICOSTAL LOVING JESUS! 🔥👀✋👋✋👀🕊
I’ve lived in Kansas Texas and Oklahoma. We had 16 tornadoes the other day! I’ve been real close to two going through my town and I thought it sounded more like a long extended explosion! I’ve tried to leave tornado Alley but in ‘84 there was a tornado in Hawaii while we were visiting my grandparents! And in the mid '90’s there was one in downtown Salt Lake City when I was living over there! I moved back to tornado alley cuz at least we’ve got underground shelters here. ( not really why I moved back but that is a plus )
I enjoyed this years ago and I still enjoy it. He’s so right about Pentecostals, too! My dad used a term for us in the early 90s after further Bible studies-we became Bapticostals-best of both worlds. (Still don’t bet, though. 😂)
i was in a coma in 95. while living in the rehab center i saw lightning strike the lightning tower. i was concercened because i wasn't at the point of recovery where lightning towers were a thing. they told eveyone get into your beds. i almost tried to leave the building but The Holy Spirit told me that it is well & rest my son.
We live near railroad tracks but trains usually pass through overnight...especially, the long freight trains. We got so used to trains that we hardly hear it these days. Nevertheless, depending on the train size, we can often feel slight vibrations in our top floor as trains pass by. The first and only earthquake we ever experienced happened around 10 in the morning. My husband was at work. I was playing with our kiddo. I stopped to collect some clean laundry from the dryer and told him I had to take it “to mommy’s bedroom”. It was a beautiful, super quiet sunny day...It wasn’t until afterwards that I recalled how quiet it was just before the “big train” noise... I saw and heard no wind and the birds must’ve known about it, because I saw no birds and heard zero bird chirping that morning, which is completely unusual for this area. When I first heard the noise, I looked outside from our bedroom window and said to myself “Wow...this is one late train!” 😳🤣🤣🤣 Next thing I know, I thought we were having a case of “Poltergeist” and I was going to be swallowed by our TV...which was shaking along with the heavy armoire right behind me. I know, I know...you must be thinking “Poltergeist?? You’re a Christian...” Okay, just give me a break, will you? That was my first and only experience through an earthquake. I just pray to God it’ll remain the first AND the LAST!! 😰 Anyhow... I screamed then, as I yelled his name several times, I ran as fast as I could to grab our then 4 y/o son. He must’ve been puzzled by the noise yet he didn’t appear one bit afraid of all the shaking and trembling happening around us. When super frightened, frantic momma here got to him, he said “It wasn’t me, mom!” 😂😂🤔🤔 There was no time to concern myself with whatever naugthy thing he migth’ve been up to... LOL 😂 I just grabbed him and ran outside. The tremors must’ve lasted something like less than a minute but it certainly felt more like a half hour to me! Not at all funny at the time...but looking back at our clueless reactions, it’s pretty hilarious. LOL 😂 I love Mark Lowry. He always brightens up my day...not just through his God given humor but most importantly, through his reminders of Whom our God is and what He’s all about! ❤️
Having been born and raised for 17 and a half years in Mountain View, Georgia DIRECTLY across the expressway from Hartsville International Airport, with those commercial airplanes going & coming from that airport 24/7/365 and 3 blocks behind our house was railroad tracks mostly for freight trains, even those who would stop at the old FORD Automobile Plant 24/7/365, tornadoes do NOT sound like a “freight train”. In the 1974 Super Tornado Outbreak, a tornado went over our house in the wee hours of the morning while we were in the hallway with pillows to cover our heads(ALL 9 of us, 7 kids & both parents), that tornado, and the other tornadoes since before & after I was married, tornadoes sound as if thousands and thousands of those airplanes are going over at the SAME TIME and the sound of a “wailing woman” with them.
Having lived in Mountain View, Georgia DIRECTLY across the expressway from Hartsville International Airport, with airplanes CONSTANTLY flying OVER our house 24/7 365 days a year, for 17 and a half years, BEFORE we were bought out, when there was a Tornado going over our house in the wee hours of the morning, I thought, at first, that thousands of thousands of airplanes were, for some reason, flying right over the house at the SAME TIME. Two streets BEHIND our house were the railroad tracks that freight trains used, INCLUDING the trains for the FORD AUTOMOBILE PLANT in Hapeville, Georgia. Use to the airplanes coming AND going from Hartsville International Airport, AND the freight trains every day AND night, I can HONESTLY say that all of the Tornadoes we have been in do NOT sound anything close to the popular thing to say for years now “it sounded like a freight train”. wado,Ann Benson.
My first time in Illinois, in July, they told me if a tornado came it sounded like a freight train and I’d have plenty of warning. So in the middle of the night, I heard it coming. I got up and went out on the porch to see if I could see it. I stood there wondering if I should wake everyone up. About the time I thought I should probably go get everyone up and into the basement, I heard "woo woo". I went back to bed.
@Judith Robinson - Ha... you're adorable, with your almost frantic NEED to believe. It's not a judgement. (I really don't care, one way or the other.) It's simply an observation. I just wish he could be honest enough with himself, And his fans to be real about it. But then, that would significantly diminish his income stream.. and we can't have that now, can we? Jer. 48:10 - Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully.
My advise is: please use your brain for maximum capacity & time to choose the right holy guidence & the right God otherwise everyone might be stay in hell forever 🙏°🙏🙏🙏😭😭😭
Believers in religion teach us that God will reward men for good actions, but men who are intellectually free, know that the reward of a good action cannot be given by any power, but that it is the natural result of the good action. The free man, guided by intelligence, knows that his reward is in the nature of things, and not in the caprice even of the Infinite. He is not a good and faithful servant, he is an intelligent free man. -Robert G. Ingersoll
I always thinking & believe that God is only 1 & i always pray that even i live In this universe for 10.000 times i only want to die in ISLAM (only worshiping to ALLAH SWT).. Because if there are 3 gods maybe oneday they can fight each other as time goes by.. God vs God vs God?? oh god i'm so scarry don't you? And for example an egg,, it is consits of yellow's egg, white's egg & the shell but the egg is so easy to broken + it's smells so stingky as time goes by 🙏🙏°🙏🙏
Wow house boat flies first class you guys make money off the gospel God says worship in truth and in Spirit they make money like rock stars they make millions
I am appalled at “Christian” people for enabling this man. Eph. 5:4 says “neither filthiness nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.” Laughter in itself is not wrong, but for a man to joke and jest in front of large crowds to force laughter from people in form of jesting is NOT convenient. He appears to be a proud, exalted individual because I know this from experience that “getting laughs” from others feeds a pride inside me. I believe what Paul is instructing here is that a freed heart, free from the chains of sin and self, will be joyful and that person will laugh easily, maybe at some antics from their pet, maybe from some humorous incident at work, maybe just laugh because we’re so free and happy. Nothing wrong with that. But we should NEVER laugh at the expense of someone else, or with someone taking cheap shots at others. And we shouldn’t enable someone to stand in front of us making fun, clean as it may seem to be, jesting, joking, etc. if anyone who says that with everything going on these days, we need to hear jokes to take our mind off of everything, just remember 9/11. The late night comics even shut down telling jokes. It was a serious, somber time in which people prayed who never had prayed. We need to be joyful, free, happy, always looking for the happiness of others, be merry, have a merry countenance but not speaking to exalt or draw attention to ourselves.
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It scared the fool out of me🤣 …I’m stealing that one
I got struck sober by God 42 years ago. God is everything to me though Im not a Christian. Believe me when I tell you I see and experience Miracles all the time. You just have to look for them.
I just discovered this man. I just love him already
BLESSED ARE THEY WHO HAVE NOT SEEN YET HAVE BELIEVED, BROTHERS AND SISTERS! AMEN!! ✝️❤️☮️☘️👍🏼😊
Thank You Lord for giving us Mark Lowry and for giving him such a gem of a sense of humor. God bless you Mark. Thank you for the laughs.
My parents played his shows as a kid and Im just now coming back around to them again. Why am I crying over all his jokes. I adore his take on God. Breaks up the fear I have in everyday life and replaces it with a little giggle in my heart.
2:20 best quote for my life "I would have enjoyed that a lot more had I known I was going to live through it"
Love this remarkable Christian using his talent for Jesus! My kids have grown up listening and enjoying Mark. Praise God for his work!
I agree.
Can't stop listening.
Funny man here and also a blessing from God❤
Mark Lowry is the BEST, and he never gets stale! I just LOVE him! 😂🤣😂🤣
We were lucky to have Mark come to our church 30 years ago. Still a fan.
The Way we love, the Gaithers, Mark, David , Penrod , Wes, Hall , Kevin, etc We Love you all.
It's so true. I grew up Baptist and am now a pentecostal. He couldn't have been more accurate.
Baptist get to the restaurant for lunch bf the other denominations lol
thats one of my favorite lines ever. I would have enjoyed that much more if I knew I was going to live through it.
Hes been thru one of them there naders. Thats a miracle in itself ! Im pentecostal andwas baptist before i was converted. You can have miracles in your life too. God is not looking for a religion, Hes lookin for a relationship
Amen
1 question for you if you believe God don't want a religion from you but a relationship why did you convert from one religion to another?
Thomas Vincent, going from Baptist to Pentecostal is NOT changing RELIGIONS, they are both Christianity, it's merely changing denominations. Changing religions would be like if they went from Christianity to Buddhism, or Mormonism, or Jehovah's Witness. Not the same thing at all.
@@suziequzie1961 I know that Susanne Fluker, but you have got to remember that a lot of people who say they are Christian think that if you are Christian and went to Baptist church and then changed to Pentecost that they changed religion.
That is why Mark Lowery is such a comedy genius. He slips in those really intense and profound Throughs that slip by some people . God bless you and Angel Watching over us ! Safe in the Master hand! Blessed
♥✝ Update 11/10/2018✝♥
Aww right! I think the same. He sure knows how to put the truth, out there right in the middle of making you laugh. I love it!
That last part! 😂 Mark is so on point there though. I admire people who can live solely by Faith. God knows I never could.
when you get into your car and start the engine ,you have no doubt it will start,ya automaticly turn the key and expect it to start..that dear brother is faith, when you go to grab a chair and sit do you stop and wonder to yourself : gee will this chair support me or crash? I doubt if you do that you grab the chair and sit in it.. that is faith. Your faith will grow especially when tested. Stand firn brother.😉
Ha ha, I'm on a Mark Lowry binge this morning..
I get it! I’m gonna live through COVID-19. I’ve lived through cancer and a lotta other stuff. I ought to have a better attitude about the mess we’re in. I don’t want to look out from the coffin and say that I would have had a better time if I’d know I was going to live through it. HE gave me a now life so I need a new attitude and stop worrying and complaining about the mess we’re in.
jhbunny Amen! That’s the spirit!!! The spirit which comes from THE HOLY SPIRIT!!! Don’t worry! He’s got it all UNDER HIS CONTROL! And HE can do NO WRONG! Tell yourself this: My God is far tougher and far rougher than the toughest and roughest of challenges and disasters on earth and the universe COMBINED! OUR GOD IS SO GREAT SO STRONG AND SO MIGHTY...THERE’S NOTHING TOO TOUGH OR TOO DIFFICULT FOR OUR GOD!! I also encourage you to remember this: “To live is Christ and to die is gain”! So for those of us who belong to Christ, we can never die...because when we die in Him, we LIVE! God blesses! Keep your eyes on Jesus...not on the storm! ❤️😊👍
Jann G Right on and AMEN!!! God bless!!! ❤️😊❤️
Stop complaining yes BUT DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
Shabbat Shalom 🙏
Awesome 👍
I OWN EVERY ALBUM FROM THIS MAN. I SAW HIM TWICE IN CONCERT AS A KID. I MET HIM WHEN I WAS 11 IN 1991.
Walk by faith!!!
Amen
Mark Lowry is good. Love him
I was in Kentucky several years ago on a Singles. Retreat and I sang with a group called Single Heart. We opened for Mark Lowery! I laughed my head off! He is so funny and such a fabulous guy! Love you ALOT Mark ! Come to Mississippi UBETCHA BUBBA! BE SAFE & WELL! FROM A BAPTICOSTAL LOVING JESUS! 🔥👀✋👋✋👀🕊
Mark, you always crack me up!
That was good, really good!!! Really funny!!! Thank you so very much to this comedian/this brother!!!
🤣😂😀🤣😁☺️😄😂😃😂😃hahahahaha Thank y’all for this!
I’ve lived in Kansas Texas and Oklahoma. We had 16 tornadoes the other day! I’ve been real close to two going through my town and I thought it sounded more like a long extended explosion! I’ve tried to leave tornado Alley but in ‘84 there was a tornado in Hawaii while we were visiting my grandparents! And in the mid '90’s there was one in downtown Salt Lake City when I was living over there! I moved back to tornado alley cuz at least we’ve got underground shelters here. ( not really why I moved back but that is a plus )
God bless you.
Great as always Mark 👍🏻
Good one Mark, keep making people happy!!!😁
"There ain't no freight trains on this lake..."
Wess Stewart LOL 😂 I know, right? He always cracks me up...in a good way, that is!! LOL 😂
Wow
Love that work by faith..😍🇻🇺
Hello 👋 there
How are you doing today?
Hope all is well with you ?
I enjoyed this years ago and I still enjoy it. He’s so right about Pentecostals, too! My dad used a term for us in the early 90s after further Bible studies-we became Bapticostals-best of both worlds. (Still don’t bet, though. 😂)
they really do sound like a freight train. been in more than one. all rights reserved
Hi there
How are you doing today?
Hope all is well with you
Love this!
This is great stuff
HALLELUJAH THAT IS ME TOO!!! PRAISE GOD
Me too my ears 👂 oh wow lol thanks for keeping me laughing ❤
He's hilarious. Great with bill gaither.
Signs and wonders shall follow those that believe Mark 16: 15-18
i was in a coma in 95. while living in the rehab center i saw lightning strike the lightning tower. i was concercened because i wasn't at the point of recovery where lightning towers were a thing. they told eveyone get into your beds. i almost tried to leave the building but The Holy Spirit told me that it is well & rest my son.
Wow! A video of Mark I haven't seen... and he isn't grey headed yet!! Lol
Love him!!! So funny 😂🤣😂🤣💖‼️
Hi Diane
Two of my favorite lines here: "There ain't no freight train on this lake." ..."We're upside down... but we're okay." 😂
Hi Rita
Hahahaha lol he is funny, 😂 yet the message is awesome.
We live near railroad tracks but trains usually pass through overnight...especially, the long freight trains.
We got so used to trains that we hardly hear it these days.
Nevertheless, depending on the train size, we can often feel slight vibrations in our top floor as trains pass by.
The first and only earthquake we ever experienced happened around 10 in the morning.
My husband was at work. I was playing with our kiddo.
I stopped to collect some clean laundry from the dryer and told him I had to take it “to mommy’s bedroom”.
It was a beautiful, super quiet sunny day...It wasn’t until afterwards that I recalled how quiet it was just before the “big train” noise...
I saw and heard no wind and the birds must’ve known about it, because I saw no birds and heard zero bird chirping that morning, which is completely unusual for this area.
When I first heard the noise, I looked outside from our bedroom window and said to myself
“Wow...this is one late train!” 😳🤣🤣🤣
Next thing I know, I thought we were having a case of “Poltergeist” and I was going to be swallowed by our TV...which was shaking along with the heavy armoire right behind me.
I know, I know...you must be thinking “Poltergeist?? You’re a Christian...”
Okay, just give me a break, will you? That was my first and only experience through an earthquake.
I just pray to God it’ll remain the first AND the LAST!! 😰
Anyhow...
I screamed then, as I yelled his name several times, I ran as fast as I could to grab our then 4 y/o son.
He must’ve been puzzled by the noise yet he didn’t appear one bit afraid of all the shaking and trembling happening around us.
When super frightened, frantic momma here got to him, he said
“It wasn’t me, mom!” 😂😂🤔🤔
There was no time to concern myself with whatever naugthy thing he migth’ve been up to... LOL 😂
I just grabbed him and ran outside.
The tremors must’ve lasted something like less than a minute but it certainly felt more like a half hour to me!
Not at all funny at the time...but looking back at our clueless reactions, it’s pretty hilarious. LOL 😂
I love Mark Lowry.
He always brightens up my day...not just through his God given humor but most importantly, through his reminders of Whom our God is and what He’s all about! ❤️
Love clean humor.
Having been born and raised for 17 and a half years in Mountain View, Georgia DIRECTLY across the expressway from Hartsville International Airport, with those commercial airplanes going & coming from that airport 24/7/365 and 3 blocks behind our house was railroad tracks mostly for freight trains, even those who would stop at the old FORD Automobile Plant 24/7/365, tornadoes do NOT sound like a “freight train”. In the 1974 Super Tornado Outbreak, a tornado went over our house in the wee hours of the morning while we were in the hallway with pillows to cover our heads(ALL 9 of us, 7 kids & both parents), that tornado, and the other tornadoes since before & after I was married, tornadoes sound as if thousands and thousands of those airplanes are going over at the SAME TIME and the sound of a “wailing woman” with them.
Having lived in Mountain View, Georgia DIRECTLY across the expressway from Hartsville International Airport, with airplanes CONSTANTLY flying OVER our house 24/7 365 days a year, for 17 and a half years, BEFORE we were bought out, when there was a Tornado going over our house in the wee hours of the morning, I thought, at first, that thousands of thousands of airplanes were, for some reason, flying right over the house at the SAME TIME. Two streets BEHIND our house were the railroad tracks that freight trains used, INCLUDING the trains for the FORD AUTOMOBILE PLANT in Hapeville, Georgia. Use to the airplanes coming AND going from Hartsville International Airport, AND the freight trains every day AND night, I can HONESTLY say that all of the Tornadoes we have been in do NOT sound anything close to the popular thing to say for years now “it sounded like a freight train”. wado,Ann Benson.
Love you Mark Lovry
I laugh so hard, everytime I hear his stories, I almost pee my pants. Lol.
Loved it
Ain’t dat da truth?!?🤣🤣🤣🤣
Amen 🎈🦋
Hi rose
How's it going over there with you?
Hope all is well
😂❤cute
Yeah I've been through a tornaydah.
He survived a tornada
Lisa Mccleary lol...that's the female version.
@@StElmo-yl5jd yes & i hear that the female ones are more severe. just a joke not hating
Coulda been a tornader...
Yeah hahaha
@@shaldana Or a twister. 🌪
My first time in Illinois, in July, they told me if a tornado came it sounded like a freight train and I’d have plenty of warning. So in the middle of the night, I heard it coming. I got up and went out on the porch to see if I could see it. I stood there wondering if I should wake everyone up. About the time I thought I should probably go get everyone up and into the basement, I heard "woo woo".
I went back to bed.
Oh man mark lowry is so funny
Amen bro
He is very funny😂😂
No one goes to Heaven the kingdom of God comes to earth it's called the new Jerusalem
Hello 👋
Why say so?
Listen to Everytime form I was younger
Oh Yes
Too funny!
Mark is just too funny😅
Love his shows
what is the video of Mark doing the parody of dating via the Song Of Soloman
Baby, Why Not Me?
Ha ha! Hilarious. I just love this old queen!
@Judith Robinson - Ha... you're adorable, with your almost frantic NEED to believe. It's not a judgement. (I really don't care, one way or the other.) It's simply an observation. I just wish he could be honest enough with himself, And his fans to be real about it. But then, that would significantly diminish his income stream.. and we can't have that now, can we? Jer. 48:10 - Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully.
@@princeharming8963 dumb
@@princeharming8963 I
@@ctb2814 - That is a troll's response. If you have a point to make... you should make it. If not, put your head back in the sand and shut up.
Him: Have you ever survived a tornada?
Me: No, but a tornado I have
The g it up
I lived through my wife's winds 🌬️
let me stay in Calif where we only get earthquakes once in a while
@Judith Robinson do you know the swim Jim, if you don't know the swim better sing the hymn
And then he woke up🤪😂😂
44😂
Seventh day Baptists are still viable. . . .
Hello 👋
So funny
😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
Hi there
My advise is: please use your brain for maximum capacity & time to choose the right holy guidence & the right God otherwise everyone might be stay in hell forever 🙏°🙏🙏🙏😭😭😭
Gaither vocal band
This is a gathering of Christians joking about whether they are going to heaven or hell
Lol 😂
😂😂😂😂
( APPLAUSE! )
"Tornada". Lol.
No go
🤣🤣🤣
😅
Hi there
Believers in religion teach us that God will reward men for good actions, but men who are intellectually free, know that the reward of a good action cannot be given by any power, but that it is the natural result of the good action.
The free man, guided by intelligence, knows that his reward is in the nature of things, and not in the caprice even of the Infinite. He is not a good and faithful servant, he is an intelligent free man.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
I always thinking & believe that God is only 1 & i always pray that even i live In this universe for 10.000 times i only want to die in ISLAM (only worshiping to ALLAH SWT).. Because if there are 3 gods maybe oneday they can fight each other as time goes by.. God vs God vs God?? oh god i'm so scarry don't you? And for example an egg,, it is consits of yellow's egg, white's egg & the shell but the egg is so easy to broken + it's smells so stingky as time goes by 🙏🙏°🙏🙏
Baptist get to drink
I don’t drink
Isn't that pretty? Lol
I'm gonna die. Lol
He's funny.
Wow house boat flies first class you guys make money off the gospel God says worship in truth and in Spirit they make money like rock stars they make millions
bla bla
Who said Christians don't like gays? They seem to be enjoying this one.
@Judith Robinson
Fine. They AREN'T enjoying this one.
Done.
You only wish he was
Does he donate and feed and clothe and give and go without after making all that money through the name of the Lord?
Of course he's filthy rich and has a houseboat...yup, he's definitely a "Christian"
Yawn....
I am appalled at “Christian” people for enabling this man. Eph. 5:4 says “neither filthiness nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.” Laughter in itself is not wrong, but for a man to joke and jest in front of large crowds to force laughter from people in form of jesting is NOT convenient. He appears to be a proud, exalted individual because I know this from experience that “getting laughs” from others feeds a pride inside me. I believe what Paul is instructing here is that a freed heart, free from the chains of sin and self, will be joyful and that person will laugh easily, maybe at some antics from their pet, maybe from some humorous incident at work, maybe just laugh because we’re so free and happy. Nothing wrong with that. But we should NEVER laugh at the expense of someone else, or with someone taking cheap shots at others. And we shouldn’t enable someone to stand in front of us making fun, clean as it may seem to be, jesting, joking, etc. if anyone who says that with everything going on these days, we need to hear jokes to take our mind off of everything, just remember 9/11. The late night comics even shut down telling jokes. It was a serious, somber time in which people prayed who never had prayed. We need to be joyful, free, happy, always looking for the happiness of others, be merry, have a merry countenance but not speaking to exalt or draw attention to ourselves.
Get over yourself.