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How to bring meaning to Life
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This past Thursday a young lady in our community took her own life.
She decided that it was better to end this life and risk what the next one was like, instead of living this one with all the hopelessness and pain.
Someone who takes their life feels that they have run out of options.
The pain is too great.
In there mind there is no reason to live.
Nothing to live for that is worth continuing the struggle they are in.
Life has lost all meaning and purpose.
Picture here of someone smart asking that question:
So what is the meaning of life.
What brings real meaning to this life?
Maybe you have considered taking your own life.
Or maybe you just feel that your going through the motions and you aren't really living.
Maybe you have never understood what really brings meaning to this life and God wants to help you understand that today.
I want to show you today what brings real meaning to your life and how to experience true and lasting joy and purpose that you want to live for!
Pray:
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
The answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?" pertains to the significance of existence.
Many other related questions include: "Why are we here?",
"What is the purpose of my existence?"
There have been a large number of proposed answers to these questions from many different philosophical and ideological backgrounds.
The search for life's meaning has produced much speculation throughout history.
Different people believe different things for the answer to this question.
C.S. Lewis said: “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
Jesus is the the lens by which we see the creator of it all and He is the lens by which we see everything else with clarity!
How to Bring Meaning to L-I-F-E
Not only can we intellectually know God, but we can have an experience with him!
ILL: A persons changed life.
C.S.Lewis said: Christianity, if false, is of now importance.
The only thing it cannot be is moderately important!
The creator God loves you and came in the person of Jesus Christ to set you free to enjoy life to the fullest!
The opportunity we have to share in Christ’ life, death and resurrection provides the ultimate meaning of life.
Those who have been crucified with Christ can now live with the same power that raised Jesus from the dead and for all eternity.
People have tried to provide there opinion, but there is only one answer to that question.
And this is it!
Jesus Christ!
So many others try to find a different meaning to life.
But fail.
There is only one answer to that question.
Its like
Any other response is like telling someone how to make coffee when they asked for directions to Starbucks.
I. L-ove Brings Meaning
A. Love is necessary for life to have meaning.
To love and be loved is a built-in psychological need.
B. The more love we give, the greater capacity we have to receive.
C. God’s love brings meaning—it reaches through us to others with compassion, understanding, and a helping hand
II.
I-nvolvement Brings Meaning
“He that abideth in me, and I in him … bringeth forth much fruit)” ().
A. Involvement in one’s work, hobbies, exercise is helpful.
Involvement in charity and hospital work is also good.
B. Life becomes more meaningful when we are involved in God’s work—church activities, intercessory prayer, and sharing Christ with others.
C. Involvement precedes the harvest
III.
F-aith Brings Meaning
“This is the victory … even our faith” ().
A. The Christian life is a life of faith.
We are to use the shield of faith to defeat Satan at every onslaught.
B. Everything is possible through faith.
C. Faith pleases God and brings meaning to life
IV.
E-ternal Values Bring Meaning
“Lay not up … treasures upon earth … but lay up treasures in heaven”
A. Those who live only for selfish and temporal pursuits are most unhappy.
B. Life can have meaning only when eternal values are kept in proper focus.
C. Eternal values include liberal giving of our time, talents, and treasures and the hope of eternal life
How to bring meaning to life:
How to bring meaning to life:
I am going to read some excerpts from a biography written by Larry Tomczak about Robbin Williams
3 Lessons we must learn and teach our kids from Robin Williams life!
Robin Williams was one of the most well-known, admired celebrities in all the world.
He was a super-superstar.
His face was as well-known as the Coca-Cola logo and he had millions and millions of dollars.
He was recognized wherever he went.
He appeared in 68 movies and was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one.
His legacy includes movies such as: Mrs. Doubtfire, Jumanji, Good Morning Vietnam, Hook, Aladdin, Patch Adams and Popeye.
And of course there was: “Mork and Mindy” from back in Bob and Pam’s days in the 70s!
It seemed that he was everywhere, and he made $15 million for each movie he was in.
He won Grammys, Golden Globes, Emmy’s.
When Johnny Carson ended his 30 year Tonight Show run, he had Robin Williams as one of his final guests.
Steven Spielberg called him "one of the best actors in Hollywood!"
Everyone agreed that Robin Williams was a one-of-a-kind, brilliant, Hall of Famer.
He was as big a star as we’ve ever had.
Yet somehow his star self-destructed.
Many poor choices led to his ultimate demise and little did he know that they would cost him his life.
He self-destructed because of wrong choices in three areas where he was deceived and ensnared.
Wide is the road that leads to destruction and many find it.
But narrow is the road to eternal life and few there in find it!
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There is "pleasure in sin for a season" but there comes a day of reckoning.
Q: Why does the Bible say that there is pleasure in sin?
Rev. Billy Graham
The Bible declares that there can be pleasure in sin.
We know this from our own experience.
But the Bible also says that sin’s pleasure is only for a season ().
Then it’s over, leaving us bitter, and finally destroying us.
A day of reckoning always comes.
The Bible says, “Be sure your sin will find you out” ().
In we read of a loving father and his son who learned this lesson the hard way.
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