Title: Life with a Good End
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A life that brought you nothing, you can't take anything with you. Just because you can't take anything with you doesn't mean you can't leave anything behind. During the course of a person's lifetime, his footprints remain. When a person dies, there is always an evaluation of that person. Whether it's a positive or a negative review, a review remains.
The most important thing is God's evaluation. There is not only the evaluation of God, but also the evaluation of men. Even if the evaluation is not accurate, the evaluation of people is also very important. Because it is an evaluation of the life I have lived.
Looking at the life of Jacob in the text, he is not worthy of a good evaluation. I was born with a moral temperament from birth, and I lived a life like an athlete, telling lies like eating rice and eating others. As his name implies, it was a life of “grabbing other people’s heels” and knocking other people down. Jacob lived a life like this, so why did adults say that Jacob was attractive and wanted a life like Jacob? As the title of today's sermon says, it was because life had a good ending.
The process of living life is very important, but the end of life should be good. When you close your eyes, life should be peaceful.
The text mentions that Jacob blessed his sons at the end of his life after suffering hardships. What kind of life did Jacob lead? Jacob's life, as the idiom of the lion, was full of turmoil. It was a life that was difficult to explain in other words.
But do you know? Such a person achieves a life change, and it was God's grace, not Jacob's effort. Jacob lived a very happy old age when he learned that his son Joseph, who he thought was dead, was alive, and not only was alive, but also became prime minister of Egypt and commanded the world, and that Benjamin, who was captured, was not just captured but was held by his older brother Joseph. will be met
Against this background, Joseph, who became the prime minister of Egypt, called all his brothers and nephews, including his father Jacob, to Egypt to move them to the land of Goshen, which was a good land in Egypt. do.
In the text we read today, Jacob is referring to a prayer of blessing for his twelve sons before he now closes his eyes. The 12 sons of Jacob became the mother of the 12 tribes, the basis of the nation of Israel. It is a great honor as a parent to have my children become the mother of a nation. In the meantime, Jacob is ending his life by blessing his 12 sons.
In the end, Jacob had a good life. When I was young, I lived by my own blood. lived with greed. Without being conscious of God, he lived only as he wanted to in his heart. Instead of being considerate and serving others, I lived a life of fulfilling and fulfilling my own. In the process, I have experienced many failures and many pains. It wasn't once or twice that my heart broke.
However, Jacob's life was getting better and better, and it ended up being a good life. Why? It is because there was God's intervention, and in the end, Jacob, who had lived a selfish life, was changed to a life of faith. So, in the chapter of faith, where the names of people of faith are listed, the writer of Hebrews proudly raises the name of Jacob, revealing that Jacob was a man of faith.
Everyone, most of the time, you must have met your family members during this holiday season. Of course, there are some people who couldn't meet their families due to various circumstances and circumstances, but it must have been a long time since we met during the holidays, so shouldn't our family be doing well? If so, please don't live according to your greed like Jacob did when he was young. The selfish image of life must be abandoned. I have to let go of the life I want in my heart without being conscious of God.
And we must make a transition to a life of faith. We must live consciously of God. You have to hold on to the word. Only then will God make a life with a good ending.
The course of life should be good, but especially the later years of life. The end should be good. This time, I bless you with the Word. I wish you a good life ending. In order to have a good life, I hope in the name of the Lord that you will become more dependent on God and live by faith.