Title: Who Is Successful? [Psalm 50:7-15]
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who is successful
Psalm 50:7-15
(Hear, people, I will speak; I will testify to you, O Israel.
I am your God, and I will not rebuke you for your sacrifice.
For your burnt offering is always before me; I am a bull in your house, or a goat in your pen.
I will not take any of them, for all the beasts of the forest and the livestock of the heavenly mountains are mine; the birds of the mountain are mine.
The fields are mine, and the beasts of the field are mine. Even if I were hungry, I would say to you.
not, for the world and its fulness are mine; if I eat the flesh of bulls,
and drink the blood of goats, offering sacrifices to God with thanksgiving, the Most High
pay your vows to him, and call on me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver you.
will be glorified) (Psalm 50:7-15)
1. Who can be called a successful person?
Everyone wants to be successful in their own way.
If you ask me what success is, I will give my own answer.
However, if we put all those answers together, when all of them achieved what they thought
You can see it's called success.
But if you think about success like this, there will be no one in the world who has succeeded.
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Because no one has achieved everything as they thought.
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Over the course of a lifetime, you can see that your thoughts always change and change according to the environment.
There is.
Maybe I don't know, but in most cases, I've always had the heart I've had since childhood.
There are very few people who have followed through.
If there is such a person, he will be a successful person.
However, if you look closely, there are many cases where everyone thinks of success as a concept of ownership.
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When you have what others do not have, it is called success.
material, knowledge, skill, professional experience, or any know-how
It is often seen as a success when you have it.
So I live with pride in it.
However, success does not just lie in possession. Even those who have a lot are unhappy
Because there are plenty of people.
So, who will be successful?
A successful person is a person who lives in gratitude for the environment given to him.
If you don't know how to be grateful, you won't be happy no matter how much you own.
This is the case for people who have more wealth than others but are unhappy with their families.
Having more knowledge than others, yet knowing much is never the same as having more knowledge than others.
It means you can't make people happy.
So who is successful?
A person who is successful is a person who knows how to be grateful and lives with gratitude, not in possession
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Gratitude is a law that takes place in the original <relationship>.
There are three main types of human relationships.
First, interpersonal relationships,
Second, the object-to-object relationship,
The third is the relationship with God.
You can be grateful in your relationships with people, and hear people say thank you.
is a successful person.
Because the most difficult thing in human life is this interpersonal relationship.
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No matter how much you study, no matter how talented you are, if you fail in relationships, you will succeed.
It cannot be said that
A person who knows how to be grateful in interpersonal relationships, that person is a successful person.
There was a professor I knew who was very talented.
He received a doctorate from a prestigious seminary in the United States early on, and once returned to his home country, many
A great challenge to students by writing articles introducing new academic fields and writing books
also gave
However, much of his knowledge and the ability of a scholar to compete with the Korean religious circles and fellow professors
I saw a man who eventually returned to the United States because his personal relationship did not go well.
You don't know how pathetic it is.
The same is true for object relations.
A person who is grateful in material relationships is a successful person.
In our reality, there are too many people who have failed in this object relationship.
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No matter how much money you make, you are not thankful for the material,
On the contrary, there are people who listen to their resentment, feel conflict, and live like enemies.
If you lose friends because of material things, and build walls with your neighbors because of material things, he will
Even if he has gained social fame, it cannot be said that he is a successful person.
??Watching the name go up and down due to this money transaction in politics these days,
If it is a dishonest relationship in a relationship, or if it was given or received in an impure relationship, what can you do with that money?
Even if you achieve something, it is not a success.
So, wouldn't it be criticized by the people?
Isn't it the desire of the new people to liquidate such things?
No matter how good the position, the appearance of being detained due to poor property relations
Looking at it, who is the true successor?
It means that those who can thank themselves in the object relationship are successful.
And the same is true in relationships.
If you do not know how to thank God, no matter how successful you are, it is a true success.
You can not.
Because he is a person who does not know the root of wisdom.
It is said that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
How can a person who lives without knowing the fundamental God be called a successful person!
Therefore, in Article 1 of the Catechism of the Presbyterian Church, 'What is man's primary purpose?'
?쏷he chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy his name.
' he said.
2. Therefore, the truly successful are those who live with gratitude.
Why are grateful people called successful people?
Because grateful people are happy people.
This is because the most mature state of character is gratitude.
Knowing how to be grateful means that you are mature enough.
Gratitude begins with self-reflection.
Gratitude arises when I know who I am.
There is no appreciation for those who do not know their limits and who do not know their incompetence.
When a person does not know gratitude, he becomes proud.
When a person does not know gratitude, he becomes stupid and becomes more corrupt than an animal.
Look at what is happening in our society today.
There are people who have succeeded, but few live with gratitude.
In a worldly sense, success means winning a competition, but in that person there is gratitude.
Without a heart, there is no true success.
Such success is always accompanied by anxiety.
Complaints follow.
Hatred and curse follow.
So they fight each other, envy each other, and get caught up in a bigger competition.
3. A truly successful person is a person who worships God with thanksgiving.
Worship is the greatest expression of gratitude to the Creator as a human being as a creature.
God is looking for such people.
'He who comes to God must know that he is, and that he rewards those who seek him.
You have to believe in the Lord (蘊?.??(Hebrews 11:6)
A person who believes in the existence of God and bows his head humbly to him
It's an empty person.
When the years pass and the twilight of life begins to dwell, why worship and live a successful life?
Everyone knows if it was an enemy life.
I don't know how many people regret that they realized this too late.
It goes without saying that a life lived while worshiping God is a true success.
Therefore, we must become people who worship with a sincere heart.
These people said that God Himself would protect and deliver them in the day of trouble.
In today's text, "A man's sacrifice to God is a heart of thanksgiving,
It is to pay the vows made to the Most High. When I'm having a hard time
call I will save you. Give me glory.??(Psalm 50:14-15)
I did.
How can there be no difficulties in life?
Those who come to God at such times and live by worshiping God rightly!
That is the person who is successful.
??One day, the invention king Edison turned 66 years old.
The laboratory where he has been working and researching for many years has been turned to ashes by fire.
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The unfinished research achievements that are still in progress have completely disappeared.
Everyone stomped their feet in regret.
To his heartbroken wife, who was speechless, Edison said:
?쏧 can hear the voice of God even in this ashes.
I saw a miracle that I could burn it cleanly and start anew now. so
Thank God."
Everyone! Who are the real successors?
Not discouraged in the ashes, not in despair, but one in the midst of tribulation
Such a person who can be thankful to you!... Such a person is a truly successful person.
There was a painter named Solman.
At a young age, not long after marriage, he became seriously ill.
The doctor tells you.
"You have lymphatic tuberculosis and you will only have three months to live."
His wife is a famous singer, and she is now pregnant.
I feel sorry for my wife, but I also feel guilty when I think of the child to be born in the future.
When he is in great distress, his beloved wife comforts him.
?쏡on?셳 think that you only have three months to live, but live by saying that God has given you three months.
Let's be grateful and thank you. Let's not resent anyone. Where is 3 months? like gold
Let's make that period the most beautiful.
Let's thank God for allowing us three months."
Both are happy, grateful, and work hard.
He painted hard.
A miracle happened.
His illness was washed away.
There is something famous about his paintings.
The face of Jesus.
When ordinary people paint the face of Jesus, they are usually merciful,
I paint with a face, and this person is expressed as a person with leadership and strong humanity.
I did.
This painting was so famous that millions of copies were printed and it hangs in many homes today.
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That's right.
Where is 3 months? where is the day
Where is one talent?
A person who can be thankful in any circumstances like this will be a true success. ??