Title: Road to Happiness
In the verse before the text, Jesus said, “When I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and bring you to me, that where I am, you may be also. You know the way where I am going” (verses 3-4).
Then, <Thomas>, one of the disciples of the Lord who heard the words, said, “Lord, we do not know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” inquired.
It means that we do not know and cannot understand the path the Lord is speaking of.
The way the Lord goes for his disciples is the way to heaven, the way to salvation, the way to eternal life, and the way to happiness. Speaking of that path, the disciple Thomas, who is still a beginner in faith, did not understand.
Unhappy people have several things in common. First, I am a perfectionist. He goes through life with all his worries. Second, always try to compare yourself to others. Third, you think you are the best. No one wants to hang out with such a person. So it's always lonely. Fourth, focus on the little things. The face of such a person is always full of dissatisfaction and melancholy. Fifth, looking at things with suspicious eyes in everything, tenaciously dig into the opponent's weaknesses. Sixth, never give love and material things for our neighbors. You never know how to get money out of your pocket.
<Example> The best-selling book [Those Who Find the Path], written by a person named Gail Swaysh, presents "The Eight Secrets to Happiness of Happy People". happy people,
1) A person with a clear purpose in life
2) A person who does not disappoint himself
3) A person who makes a plan and works towards it
4) A person who loves and lives with someone
5) People who have many friends with them
6) A person with a lively personality
7) A person who doesn't pay much attention to other people's criticism of himself
8) It was said that he was a person without great fear.
It is said that in Hollywood, the hometown of movies, actors and people in the film industry sometimes gather to have breakfast together. At this time, it is said that the most popular actors or celebrities of the time are invited to listen to brief speeches. Once, a woman with a very beautiful appearance took the stage as a speaker. She was such a beautiful actress that she was voted one of America's ten most beautiful women. Applause erupted loudly as this woman appeared in front of the microphone. But she looked around the crowd, and at first she said: "Everyone! I'm in love now!" When he said that, the hall began to fill with strange excitement. Then someone shouted. "Who the hell is the lucky guy?" Then the actress answered without hesitation. "Yes, that's Jesus Christ. I love him. So now I'm going to quit my job as a movie star."
The poet <John Dryden> described the world as <The inn the traveler goes through>.
"Everyone who lives in this world is born and dies
No one knows what truly amazing happiness is
No matter what, be patient with the same mind
Don't be overjoyed or sad over things we don't have to worry about.
I'm just going out like a pilgrim heading for a set destination
The world is an inn. Death is the end of the journey."
Where is true happiness? <Life is a pilgrim, the world is a stranger!> <For those who think death is the end of their journey!> Where can you find true happiness? Jesus gave the answer in today's text. “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one goes to the Father except through me.” Happiness belongs to those who are guaranteed to go to Heavenly Father. The way to receive that guarantee is to know and serve Jesus Christ, who is the way, the truth, and eternal life. Whether it is true is the guaranteed way to go to Heavenly Father's house. Ask the person who served Jesus!
In the 18th century, King Louis XIV of France was a man of luxury. He enjoyed all the luxuries, but like King Solomon, he was not satisfied. He became seriously ill and died. After being diagnosed by a doctor who said, "You can get better by wearing the underwear of the happiest person in the world," one of the king's servants traveled across the country to find the underwear of the happiest person.
Meanwhile, the servant heard a rumor that a certain shepherd, who always sings with joy, was the happiest, and visited him one day. The boy plucked the harp and sang hymns, always rejoicing with satisfaction because he believed in Jesus and had the hope of heaven. After the king's servant had told the boy all the things he had done, he asked the king for some underwear for the boy. But the shepherd was perplexed. Because he was so poor that he had only one coat. In the end, the king's servant could not get a happy man's robe and went back to the palace.
It is said that King Louis XIV, who was disappointed by this news, sighed and died, saying, "There is a happy man, but his underwear is not."
Today, people are leaving to find happiness. Where can I find happiness?
Pascal, a man who excelled in mathematics and physics, converted in 1654 and had deep faith, wrote in his book Panse, "Ah, life, no matter how hard you try to find a way out of misery in yourself, there is no profit. All the light you have reveals that you can't find any truth or goodness in yourself, and they don't even know what your true longing is when philosophers promise to find you.
Therefore praise it. Praise be to the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, not the god of philosophers, not the god of scientists, nor the god of mathematicians.”
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The road to true happiness is that there is nowhere in this world. Yes. There is only one way to true happiness. Jesus is showing us the way in today's text.
“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one goes to the Father except through me.”
Only those who find the way to Heavenly Father's house can be happy. The only way to the heavenly Father's house is Jesus Himself, as Jesus revealed.
“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one goes to the Father except through me.”
Fortunately, all of you who have believed in and served Jesus are those who have climbed the path to heaven. Jesus is the truth of happiness itself. It is the way to heaven, the land of eternal happiness. Everyone who lives in the road of happiness! bless you with that happiness.
Alexander the Great, the world conqueror, passed through a village. There were children playing on the side of the road in the village. The game belonged to <Nara>. “I am an animal kingdom! What kind of child is a plant country!” The children were playing and choosing each other. Alexander the Great, who was looking at him at that time, asked the children. “Children, which country do you think I belong to?” The children who did not know who he was asking thought for a moment and said, “I think he belongs to the kingdom of heaven.” answered. When Alexander Wang heard this, his eyes welled up and he said, "Children, I wish I did too." said that
What are the wishes that flow at the bottom of our lives? it will be happy It is said that some poets went out to find happiness beyond the mountains, and then wept in disappointment. As Pascal said, there is no true happiness anywhere on this earth. However, true happiness, the way to that happiness, is possible only through the kingdom of happiness, the way to heaven, and Jesus Christ who is the truth and eternal life. Please believe that the only way to live by believing in and serving Jesus is the way to happiness and happiness.
I had the opportunity to visit many foreign countries. France, Italy, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, China, USA, Canada, the Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hangari, Austria, Switzerland, Germany. First, it is shady (dark), and secondly, it is the fact that the countries that became communist are not living well economically and are falling behind.
However, I could see that the countries related to God and Jesus are all bright and prosperous countries and developed countries. It really is. whether it be an individual or a country.
Why are you guys like that? This is because God, that is, Jesus is the <source of happiness, happiness itself>. Therefore, please believe that the only way to truly be happy is to live in a relationship with Jesus, the God who came in the flesh. Those of you who believe in Jesus Christ are already on the way to happiness. I believe that you are already enjoying the taste of happiness. And I believe that tomorrow will be happier than Orul. Then I believe that I will finally go to heaven, a land of happiness beyond death.
Therefore, I bless you in the name of the Lord that you will become all of you who thoroughly believe and depend on Jesus, the path to happiness.
Gospel hymn <I like Jesus.> Verse 3, brothers and sisters, if you seek true happiness
Meet Jesus. because of him
If I get a true peace plan, I will confess with you. -Amen-
I bless you that the confession of true peace and true happiness through Jesus becomes your confession.