Title Are you happy? (De 10:12-13)
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A wealthy man named Donald J. Trump paid 29 million dollars for his own happiness, and about 30 billion won in Korean money to buy a luxury yacht. This five-story ship had 100 rooms. There were six extra-large refrigerators that could store food for 100 people for three months.
Inside the ship were a barber shop, a beauty salon, a hospital, a bowling alley, a restaurant, an arcade, an indoor pool, a library, and a movie theater. The cinema was so perfect that it had 800 motion picture films. Wouldn't it be great to live on a luxury yacht like this on a ship that has everything?
However, after purchasing a yacht and living a luxurious life, Mr. Trump confessed, “Even if I live in such a beautiful and perfect boat, I am not happy at all.”
It's an old story, but Abdur Rahman III of the Saracen Empire was the king who ruled the largest kingdom in the world for 49 years. He had beautiful women as queens, and the total number of them was 3,321. Aren't you very surprised?
In addition, the total number of children was 616. In this huge kingdom, he took all the wives he wanted and had all the children he wanted, so he enjoyed greater wealth and glory than Solomon. Will you be happy? However, as he passed away, he confessed, “I have only lived for 14 days when I have been truly happy.”
How are you? Are you happy? (Yes-) Really? (Yeah-) I'm happy too. Just because you're happy doesn't mean you don't have enough. Sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's necessary. Still, I can enjoy happiness in Jesus.
For a child, happiness is not a good dress. Not a good toy. Not delicious food. A child's happiness is in their mother's arms, and living with her is the happiness of a young child.
The greatest happiness for us is to live as children of God. Those who have lost their relationship with God, and those who do not know God, are orphans in the universe. Orphans in the universe can never be happy even if they have everything in this world.
When a person becomes a child of God, he can enjoy true happiness. Fish cannot live without water. Just as plants cannot live apart from the earth, our lives cannot live apart from God, nor can we be happy at all.
Conversely, if we meet God and become God's children, but we do not enjoy happiness, do you know why? It's because I don't really believe in God. If you truly believe in God and have a vivid experience of God, you can live a happy life regardless of your circumstances. If we believe in God and become His children, we believe that happiness is ours.
George Gallup, an American psychologist and founder of statistical opinion polling methods, investigated who the happiest person in the world is with his statistical philosophy and statistics. , the happiest people are those who have had religious experiences, and the happiest people in the world are those who go to bars day and night.
The Russian writer Tolstoy said that human happiness begins with believing in the existence of God. Now, do you know when our happiness begins with belief in the existence of God and reaches the peak of happiness? When you experience God vividly, if you have a religious experience, you will receive happiness and joy that cannot be changed even if you give the whole world.
Going to church doesn't make you happy. Going to church doesn't make you happy. Believing in Jesus is the beginning of happiness. When we meet God personally and concretely, we can be immersed in a sense of happiness that cannot be changed even if we give the whole world.
I hope that you will be able to confess, ‘I am truly the happiest person in the world,’ by not only attending church, but also having such an experience.
Parents want their children to be happy even if I am unhappy. But more than we want our children to be happy, our Heavenly Father wants us to live happily on this earth.
Today's text is "Listen to all the stories I am doing for your happiness, and you will be happy". I believe that all the happiness that God wants to give is contained in this Bible verse.
But isn't the relationship with God broken because humans sin? Didn't he send his only begotten son, Jesus Christ, to make us human beings who have been broken up in this way become one with God again, like a child who went out like an orphan and returned to his father's arms?
That Jesus is the mediator. That Jesus Himself said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me." Without Jesus, we cannot become children of Heavenly Father in our lives and we cannot come to God.
Jesus Christ is the one who came to this earth to become a child of God and to become one with God. Isn't Christmas one proof that Jesus came before 2004? So, before Christ- BC, AD- Anno Domini, the turning point of history has changed because of the coming of Jesus.
Everyone, I really hope that you can come to church and have a vivid experience of God rather than just attending. I hope that I can become a child of God. I hope you can enjoy the authority of the children of God. Then your life will change. Sellers are different. Everything in life will change.
I hope that you will receive this wonderful blessing and become saints who will not live as orphans in the universe from now on, but serve God as your father. Just as a child cannot be happy apart from his parents, life can never be happy apart from God.
I pray in the name of the Lord that we will no longer live as orphans in the universe, but that we will become all members of the family of our souls who can live a happy life by serving God as our Father.