Title: Let's live with clear goals
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Main text: Philippians 3:10-16
Title: A person with a clear goal
If you go to bookstores these days, there are a lot of books about success.
Studies on success are being actively conducted at universities around the world, including the United States.
How do I succeed?
Will I be successful if I just work hard?
Books that tell you the secret to success have two things in common.
Life attitude and goals are said to be the most important factors in achieving success.
The Apostle Paul was a man who lived with a clear goal.
The Apostle Paul lived faithfully today.
So, he did not settle for the past and did not harbor false dreams for the future.
Are our middle and high school students living with goals in life?
The first condition of success is to live today as it is today.
There are people who live today like yesterday and today like tomorrow.
These days, people who are nothing and live as if they have become something.
Some people live today as if they were yesterday.
They are busy explaining how well they did in their old years.
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Even if you were president in your old days, it's no use.
Today I am nothing or nothing.
So, it is most important to live today as it is today.
What do you say in verse 12 of today's text?
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This does not mean living in the present as in the past or living in the future as the present, but living in the present as it is today.
Chasing and chasing are different.
Chasing is following voluntarily, and chasing is following by command or intention.
So, what the Apostle Paul followed means that he voluntarily tried to follow Jesus.
That is the attitude of people living today as it is today.
You can live a successful life only when you clearly realize what you need to do now, and invest time and effort for it.
You must become a disciple of Jesus today, and you must abandon the thought of being a disciple of Jesus in the past or becoming a disciple of Jesus in the future.
Opportunities are given to those who live today as it is today.
Our middle and high school students don't live a life like Don Quixote, but rather invest today into a new future like Helen Keller.
In order to live that way, above all else, you need to set clear goals.
If Paul had been a past-oriented person, he would not have been able to engage in such a great ministry.
Not only do people have good memories, but they also have bad memories.
The Apostle Paul is no exception.
There is a past when you took the lead in catching and killing people who believe in Jesus.
If Paul had been a past-oriented person, Satan would not have left him alone.
You, who persecuted those who believed in Jesus, would not have been able to withstand Satan's temptation to see how you could do such a thing now.
Verse 13 tells us to do only one thing, that is, forget the things that are behind.
How smart is that?
If you are obsessed with the past and can't do what you are supposed to do in the present, you're an idiot.
Paul also had a splendid past.
I suffered a lot for you.
Such suffering is a splendid past.
Paul was the one who explained the many threats and zeal he had to face for the Lord, and even told you to imitate me as I became imitators of Christ.
But Paul says it is not something to be proud of. In 2 Corinthians 11:30 it says that if I must boast, I boast in my weakness.
We hope that our middle and high school students don't become the bad guys of the past and do their best today.
No matter how well you did in the past, it is of no use if you can't show it today.
And no matter how great you are in the future, if you don't show that goodness today, it's nothing.
I hope that only high school students with clear goals will be faithful today.
Let's read the end of verse 13 and verse 14.
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Why did Paul follow?
What is Paul's life goal?
The answer is in verse 11.
Said to come to the resurrection
Here, to reach the resurrection refers to the most glorious state that cannot be experienced on earth.
Paul saw it as faith.
And for that glory, he gave up all the wealth and glory in the world.
It is to believe in and follow Jesus with all our might today for the glory of the resurrection that will come to us in the future, even though we suffer many hardships.
But what do we do?
Even if you don't believe it now, you will live well later, and if you have time, you will believe.
Those who are unable to die have neither hope of the world nor hope of the soul.
He who lives to die has the pleasures of the world but no hope of the soul.
But those who live to live live with the joys of the world and the joys of the soul.
So Paul says in verse 14.
I am pressing towards the goal for the reward of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Dear middle and high school students,
I want you to live your life with a clear and clear purpose in life.
Only then can you lead a planned and progressive life.
What are the goals of each secondary school student?
I hope you set clear goals and live a life led by your goals, even if you live today.