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What is the Good Life?
The world says
Right Job
Right House
Right Car
and many other things.
The Bible says
What does a blessed man or woman look like?
We generally think of:
wealthy,
in great health and
living a long life
influential
all as indicators of God’s blessing.
But does God’s blessing always mean
we are going to have lots of money?
No!
Many rich people never think of God’s blessing as their reason for success
Yet living right you tend to save money,
I always figured on our budget, I never could have bought cigarettes every week.
With God’s blessing on our lives
does that guarantee good health?
No!
Many a Christian suffers yet feels blessed by God
or claims
they grew the most in their illness,
in their suffering.
Does God’s Blessing
Always lead to long life?
No!
That is not guaranteed either.
Always power and influence?
No
Sometimes gods blessing takes us through times of troubles.
Job said
Did you catch that,
God’s corrections may wounds us,
but he also binds us up.
It’s pretty clear, God’s idea of blessing and our idea
are far apart.
God can give those things,
Wealth,
Health
Long life
Favor with others
but that not usually His blessing
God blesses people so they can bless others
Let’s look at verses 1 again
Notice there is a progression in the wicked persons path
They walks the wrong direction
Stands in the wrong place
Sits with the wrong people
The night that Jesus was betrayed it says this
That night, Peter went on to denied he even knew Jesus 3 times.
Peter walked in with them
He stood around with them
Peter even sat down by the fire warming himself with them but
He was afraid to let them know he followed Christ so what did he do?
Three times he denied even knowing Jesus.
I can see
in that situation how easy it would be to do that.
And it brought shame and guilt on Peter, until he was forgiven for his denial.
If we are not walking toward the life God wants us to live,
imitating Christ,
Then we are drifting away from him.
Abrahams nephew Lot,
never planned to ruin his life but
when their flocks were too big to live in the same place,
Abraham gave Lot the pick of the land.
He liked the lush valley but was drawn toward the city of Sodom.
Then eventually, Lot moved into Sodom.
When the angel came into Sodom, Lot was sitting in the city gates, that means he was a leader in the town.
Do you know the story of Lot?
With the angels pulling him along,
He barely got out of Sodom alive.
Lot has lost everything,
His money,
His flocks
His goods,
He lost his wife
And his daughter have
no concept of trusting their future to God
NO CONCEPT OF TRUSTING THEIR FUTURE TO GOD
So in a very wicked way,
they try to build a future for themselves.
Wow, it looks like
If we don’t walk with God,
we can make many bad choices in life.
Have you ever done something you new was wrong
because a friends encouraged you?
Illus.
My friend and I made a little money finding lost golf balls and selling them to the golfers.
Apparently, so did some other kids
One day they chased us off that spot where so many golf balls were lost.
So at my friends prompting
we snook back
and tried to mess up their bikes.
I knew revenge was wrong
But I let my friend talk me into it.
About 10 O’clock that night
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