Title: What is Human?
What is a human?
2006-01-08
Entering the series 'To you who asks about the happiness of life' - the greatest concern of human beings is to be happy. The world is talking about this and that way, but through this series, we will learn how the Bible responds to it.
I. Text Commentary
The author, who is interested in true blessing, pours out a lot of thoughts and anguish about it throughout Psalm 73, but in the end he confesses that being close to God is true blessing.
II. human beings in search of happiness
A. The nature of the pursuit of happiness
Human beings are in search of happiness. When you are happy, you simply enjoy it, and when you are not happy, you are not just living as you are, but risking everything and longing for your own happiness. This does not mean that all life goals are closely aligned with it, but the nature of the pursuit of happiness is underlying the unconscious world, and we almost instinctively live for it. In fact, many problems in the world can be seen as the result of conflicts between the happiness-seeking natures of each person.
B. Four Kinds of Humans
With regard to the nature of seeking happiness, all people in the world will live in the world divided into the following four types of people.
-People who do not know the specific way to be happy when they live: These are people who do not know the specific way to become happy as those who walk by judging themselves every moment according to their own goodness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ; It is not a reasonable idea to think that you can achieve true happiness without continuing on the right path.
-People who are convinced that the wrong way is the way to happiness: Those who judge wrong beliefs, philosophies, values, and beliefs as the right way and live according to them, and these are also those who cannot reach true happiness.
-The person who found the way to true happiness, but slipped along the way: The Christian faith is the only way for man to become truly happy. These are those who have found this path, but have slipped from it and cannot enjoy true happiness. Those who slipped in their religious life may end up in pain and anguish similar to those of unbelievers. These too are those who cannot reach the true happiness that Christ has promised.
- Those who know the path to true happiness and walk the right path: Those who have the Gospel and are enjoying the present happiness because of it, and are still walking toward that happiness. These are the people who are walking the best path they can walk as human beings.
III. human self-understanding
In order for human beings to be happy, it is a prerequisite to recognize who we are and who we are before discussing happiness itself. Also, before asking who we are, we must first answer the question of what human beings are.
A. What is a human being? (About human existence)
Everything in this world is related to other things. Just as it is possible to grasp the identity of a being that is distinguished from others through the connection, human beings must also look at the relationship between the infinite world outside of themselves and the infinite world within. Humans are beings sandwiched between the two infinite worlds below, and these are also two facts to be considered in obtaining objective knowledge of what human beings are.
1. The infinite world outside oneself (extended infinite world): The thought that human beings are only a part of the vast and infinite outer world of the universe makes us think how insignificant we are. Understanding human existence in this relationship will be the basis for seeking true wisdom.
2. Infinite world within self (implicit infinite world): There is also an infinite world within human beings. It is the world of body, soul, and spirit, all of which are buried in a great secret that cannot be revealed or known.
B. Who is a human being? (About human identity)
-Knowledge of human essence, the meaning of being alive You can be truly happy.
IV. Human essence (body and soul) - When you provide good things to the two essences, a person can have a truly good nature and will become truly happy.
A. Body-Feeding: Physical health can only be achieved by providing food, so health and human happiness are closely related. However, although physical health is an important factor for achieving happiness, it is not essential, decisive, and eternal.
B. Soul-supply of knowledge and discernment (i.e., wisdom): When the soul is supplied with discernment through knowledge, it becomes healthy and acquires wisdom that will lead on the path to true happiness. However, the problem is that although the resources of the body are finite, they can be supplied to a certain extent if they work hard in this world, but the true knowledge to nourish the soul cannot be found anywhere in the world. Knowledge that gives strength and vitality to the soul can only be obtained from the Christian faith (the lessons of life and the rules of faith), and it is the only religion and philosophy that enables human beings to enjoy true happiness. Thus we come to the conclusion that the essential happiness of man depends on this very knowledge, the truth.
V. Wisdom and Happiness
A. The ignorant
1. Thoughts and actions are full of errors: Thoughts and judgments based on those thoughts are not correct, so they act accordingly, and therefore their actions are full of wrong actions. Therefore, the foolish life of the ignorant is full of errors.
2. Pursue worthless things: Everything you seek, get, and crave is only worthless and will never make you happy.
B. The wise
1. Thoughts and actions are full of correctness: Thoughts and judgments are wise, less errors and full of correctness, life is free from error and full of correct judgments, thoughts, feelings and actions.
2. Pursue Worth: Having wisdom makes you pursue things of value, which makes you happy. It is the good of the Christian faith to teach man this, to give him possession of it, and to give him the ability to live by it.
VI. Conclusion and application
There is no one born in this world who does not strive for his own happiness. But very few are truly happy. Because unbelievers do not possess the light of truth, but we believers do not constantly supply the soul with the knowledge of that truth. As a Puritan who confessed, ?쏤aith is like walking on a log between two cliffs.??With this supply of knowledge, step by step we must be temperate, discerning, and careful. life can truly lead to happiness. What makes humans truly happy? We are the only beings that can truly be happy when we must always receive Christ, who is the truth and the bread of life, in our souls, and when the grace of the Holy Spirit comes from that truth is filled among us. 2006-01-08