Title: Paul's Journey
Title: Paul's Happy Journey (1 Thessalonians 1:1-10)
Coupe, a psychiatrist who has a clinic in the heart of Paris, is living a successful life as a doctor while living in a city known for being more beautiful and more relaxed and romantic than anywhere else in the world. His office was always full of patients, many of whom considered themselves unhappy. People who have a lot but consider themselves unhappy A doctor who grieves over the death of a female patient who is looking for a kind, stimulating and socially successful man... . This is because he realized that no treatment could bring true happiness to those who came with a mental illness. Mr. Cupe decided to close the business and travel around the world because he could no longer continue his treatment. They set out to find out what makes people happy and unhappy.
However, he was traveling to China on a plane and the seat he bought was too many passengers, so it started with a free upgrade to business class. Sitting in business class for the first time, he felt that he was very happy. Everything from the chairs to the smiles of the flight attendants to the champagne they poured made him feel good.
He eventually writes in a small notebook that the conclusion is the first secret of happiness. The first secret of happiness is not to compare yourself to others.
If I compare the ministry just by looking at myself, I am not happy. How would you compare it to people who said they were successful in a human eye? I never compare. We are just faithful to the mission God has entrusted to us. I am happy when I think.
Please follow. I am the greatest masterpiece God has made.
This is the text Paul wrote for the Christians in Thessalonica from Corinth. Paul always persecuted Christians, but after Paul was converted and became a Christian, his perspective changed, and now he writes this book in the true sense of joy and happiness. There is.
1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you.
The Apostle Paul is a man who has changed his point of view on the true meaning of joy and happiness. Today's text is known as the first epistle written by Paul. It is not the first time that Paul wrote a letter in his life, who had been trained in many studies before meeting the Lord. However, the letters I wrote after becoming an apostle preaching the gospel have changed a lot, even though they have changed from the letters I wrote before.
The way I write a letter has changed. Previously, when I was writing a letter, as it was customary at the time, it was enough to just say, “I hope there is joy in the beginning. But in this letter to the church for the first time, I rewrite the greeting from the beginning. Peace be with you” (verse 1). Paul created a unique way of speaking of believers from his greeting. When he did not know the Lord before, he greeted only with the word kai-rain, which means joy, but after meeting Jesus, he no longer uses such a word. couldn't
So, the word joy disappeared from the greeting, and grace and peace took its place. Just looking at this greeting, you can see that there is a realization that there is a more precious value of God than the joy that the world knows and enjoys. The joy of the world that Paul buried in the past is It was the joy of a moment's pleasure
The joy of drinking and singing and dancing is obviously pleasant, but Paul, who experienced the eternal world, realized that the former pleasure was not joy, but emptiness. So I gave up that joy and at the same time grabbed a new kind I had never known before, and that was grace
In Greek, grace is charis, and the etymology of charis is kara. The word kara means joy. So, what Paul gained by abandoning the joy of being kairein was the joy that came from charis (grace).
Those who have accepted Jesus as their Savior are full of the joy of this grace. 1 Thessalonians 5:16 tells us to rejoice always.
One life is more precious to us than the world, and the joy of gaining life is indescribable.
That's why Paul tells us that all those who are written in the book of life helped me.
Philippians 4:2 I urge Euodia and Syntyche, be of the same mind in the Lord 3 and I beg you, a yoke fellow with me, to help those women who labored with me in the gospel, and also to Clement and others. Help your co-workers, their names are in the book of life.
“Rejoice always in the four weeks, I say again, rejoice.” What does it mean? Those who are written in the book of life are those who have been saved, so rejoice.
Luke 10:17 The seventy returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name.” 18 Jesus said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 I will give you all the power of the enemy, trampling on serpents and scorpions. 20But do not rejoice that the demons surrender to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
We hope you will rejoice in the fact that you have been saved by God's amazing grace.
Rejoice always, says the Lord, Rejoice always, rejoice always, says the Lord, say, We rejoice always, rejoice always, says the Lord.
Still, there are people who are worried, anxious, and anxious, and I hope that you will come to us and be ordained.
If you have no joy or worry, pray. I believe that if you pray, your worries will go away and you will be filled with joy.
It's a mustard seed touch
Tiffany Field, the director of the Touch Lab in the United States, has published a book called Touch - the warmest gift a person can give to a person.