Title: How to Live a Worthy Life?
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God is the Creator of all things visible and invisible (Colossians 1:16).
Since human life is also created by God, all human beings belong to God. (Genesis 2:7, Psalm 24:1-2)
God called Abraham, who lived as an idolater in the land of Haran without knowing his identity from among many people, and made Jacob to establish a nation from among his descendants.
Jacob is Isaac's twin son, and he lives under the name of a trickster, but when he prayed all night to live in the Jabbok River with God's blessing after 20 years of slavery, he said, "I wrestled with God and won .” He called his name Israel.
▣ The people of Israel who met God through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob met God through the law delivered by angels, so they received God's blessings, but they were not forgiven for their sins.
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▣ All human beings were created to live only with the help and grace of God the Creator.
Although human beings, who were created from dust, cannot be perfect on their own, and are finite beings who are limited in all areas of their lives,
Human instinct and will rejected God's help and wanted to live on their own, but because they declared freedom before God through the tree of knowledge, they lost their human duty and lived under the interference and control of the devil, who has the power of death. is.
▣ The devil was originally an angel who praised God, but after resisting God with the greed of his heart, he was cast down into this world. It deceives humans.
The devil blinds people's hearts with greed, longs for the gospel of God and life, and deceives those who want to live with God's help.
However, God, who is rich in mercy, made Himself bear the sufferings of the cross to restore human status through His Son.
▣ Everyone wants to live their only life once and for the most valuable and rewarding.
That is why, from an early age, we are exploring knowledge and learning how to live in the world.
If the knowledge the world teaches only teaches the body how to live, God through His Word and Son is telling the people who live in the world the secret of a successful life both physically and spiritually.
Psalm 18:30 - "The way of God is perfect, and the word of the LORD is pure; he is a shield for all who take refuge in him."
▣ In order to live life worthwhile and worthwhile, above all else, “one's identity” must be clear.
How can I live a meaningful and rewarding life without knowing why I was born, where I came from, and who I am?
If we too have been born again in the Lord and know who we are and the reason for our existence in the world, we must now discover our “identity”.
We need to know that our lives are God's creations of dust and exist for God's work so that we can live with priority in our spiritual life.
▣ According to Genesis 2:7, our lives are beings created by God, and what is God's work?
John 6:29 - "Jesus answered and said to them, "It is the work of God that you believe in him whom he has sent."
▣ In the Bible, people who know that our lives are created by God and do God's work are called “Christians”.
▣ What is a Christian?
Matthew 16:17 - “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” After professing their faith, they want to live with God's help.
God does not only want this confession of faith in the church, but also in the field of life. He wants this kind of confession of faith at home, at school, at work, in front of friends, and sometimes in the midst of hardship or in the face of death. The most important thing for us Christians to do is to live a God-centered life, fulfill our Christian duties, and live a worthy life that pleases God, no matter how the world evaluates our faith.
The most valuable life is to please God.
Hebrews 11:6 says, “Without faith it is impossible to please God.” Said.
The faith that God has given to the world is the ability to remove the impossible from life as a gift from God, who not only makes the impossible possible, but also makes the non-existent and calls the dead as the living, transcending human experience and knowledge.
▣ The faith that pleases God is not satisfied with what we know and understand, but act as much as we believe.
Therefore, we must always live a life that pleases God, whether we eat or drink, in word or deed, or in whatever we do, obeying God for the sake of our soul, doing the will of God by faith in everything we do. is to live life.
▣ The life God has given to each of us is not as long as we think.
Solomon said that the thousand years of our life, which he says are long, are invaluable to a watch of the night before God, and that the pride of life is only toil and sorrow (Psalm 90:4-10).
▣ There are things that everyone values, but what is the most important thing for the Greeks?
It is living a life that pleases God.
▣ To become a person that pleases God
It is a life in which our hearts must resemble the heart of Jesus, and like Jesus, we consider others better than ourselves, do not quarrel with each other, humble ourselves and help others. (Phil 2:1 and below)
▣ Just as Jacob came to his father with food prepared to receive Isaac's blessing, please believe that God will bless those who come out with the delicacy of faith in front of you.
▣ Faith- We believe in God as absolute and Jesus as the Lord and Lord of our lives, and after receiving and accepting Him, we do not take the word God gave us, but keep it and practice it. In order to live a worthy life that pleases God throughout our lives, as Romans 12: verse says, we do not want to be conformed to this generation, but renew our hearts and volunteer to obey God.
How to live a worthwhile life? It is trusting God with strong faith. Isaiah 40:31 - “But those who wait for the Lord will find new strength, and they will soar on the wings of eagles; they will run and not get weary, they will walk and not get tired.”
▣ What is longing for?
“Looking for God and longing for God.” It means.
Why did God so earnestly tell His people to love Him so much?
It is to wait for God supremely for salvation.
Isaiah 45:22- “Look at Me, all peoples of the ends of the earth, and you will be saved.”
Everyone has an instinct to value what they love and depend on as supreme.
All things of the world will be destroyed by fire when the Lord Jesus comes again, but this faith that waits for God is not destroyed by fire, and because it is the power to take over the world, God tells His people, “Look in the Lord. ” is what you are saying.
▣ Jesus said in Matthew 6, Who are those who wait for the Lord?
First, he said that he longs for the kingdom of heaven, his country, and that he lives with an emphasis on the things that God recognizes as right.
} Paul said in Ephesians 3:18-19, “Let all the saints who wait for God realize the love of God and what is the breadth, length, height, and depth, so that they may be filled with all the fullness of God.” said.
Believe that God gives new strength to those who love you, gives you the strength and power to move forward like an eagle spreads its wings and soars into the sky, and keeps you from getting tired even if you run and walk. Please practice.
How to live a life worth living? It is to love and live your neighbor as yourself.
In Matthew 22:36, it is the greatest commandment that we, as creatures, must obey to love and fear God the Creator, and the next most important thing is to love our neighbor as ourselves.
God commanded people who were made in His image to love one another. He said that if we despise our family and neighbors and the saints, we despise the image of God, so God will not forgive those who despise our neighbors.
▣ There are many cases where believers go to church and give gifts to God and sing praises, but fail to love their neighbor.
▣ What God wants of us is to love our neighbors as ourselves. Luke 10:25 says, “What lawyer must do to tempt Jesus so that I can have eternal life? Jesus said to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.
Then the lawyer asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?” Jesus told the parable of the good Samaritan and told him to go and do likewise. priest - Levite - Samara
▣ After being born in sin, God loves people who do not know who they are or why they exist in the world, so He sent His only begotten Son to the world as the Lord of salvation.
We have the status of “Christians” who are living beings loved by God because we know God’s providence and believe and receive Jesus.
▣ In order for all of us to live our one-time life with the greatest value in the Lord, rather than worrying about what to eat, drink, or wear, live a life that pleases God with faith the size of a mustard seed and loves your neighbor as yourself. Congratulations.