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Today, we begin a brand new message series entitle “The Good Life”.
I think everyone wants a little of the good life.
Here is our theme verse for the series.
Psalm 32:12-14
Psalm
Most everyone wants to have a good time.
Maybe your idea of a good life is having enough money to buy a tiger on a gold leash.
Maybe your idea of a good life is rolling around in a chromed out Cadillac on some 20s.
Maybe you just want a deed to a platinum mine and some Christmas ornaments bought from Tiffany’s.
Maybe your idea of a good life is the simple life with having enough so you don’t have to struggle anymore.
Maybe your idea of a good life is getting healthy or not being in pain anymore.
What is your ideal?
What do you think of when you think of the good life?
Most everyone wants to have a good time.
Maybe your idea of a good life is having enough money to buy a tiger on a gold leash.
Maybe your idea of a good life is rolling around in a chromed out Cadillac on some 20s.
Maybe you just want a deed to a platinum mine and some Christmas ornaments bought from Tiffany’s.
Maybe your idea of a good life is the simple life with having enough so you don’t have to struggle anymore.
Maybe your idea of a good life is getting healthy or not being in pain anymore.
What is your ideal?
What do you think of when you think of the good life?
“Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and teacher of Alexander the Great.
He wrote on: physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology.
His thought in multiple fields was considered definitive for millennia, and his work in ethics and politics is still widely influential today.
He is one of the greatest philosophers in the history of western philosophy.
Aristotle stated that the good life consists in the possession, over the course of a lifetime, of all those things that are really good for us.
He named three areas:
1) bodily goods – health, vitality, vigor, and pleasure;
2) external goods – food, drink, shelter, clothing, and sleep; and
3) goods of the soul – knowledge, skill, love, friendship, aesthetic enjoyment, self-esteem, and honor.”
Is that really what having the good life is all about?
What does the Bible say about living the good life?
Before I became a pastor, I really thought the good life was all about having a good paying job, a wife, and some kids.
I never had big dreams of wealth or visions of grandeur.
My idea of a good life was living my life with my family in peace.
What about you?
Is the good life even possible?
What does the Bible say about living the good life?
Open your Bibles to .
Open your Bi
One of the areas which majorly impacts our satisfaction in life is relationships.
When it boils down, we really have two types of relationships.
We have horizontal relationships, our relationships with other people, and we have a vertical relationship, our relationship with God.
Jesus addressed how these two types of relationships work in .
Let’s stop at the word “them” for a moment.
Who are “them”?
I remember the old movie “Them”, which was about giant ants who attacked people, but that is not what we are talking about here.
Who are “them”?
“Them” refers to those who can hurt you physically, emotionally, and psychologically.
“Them” are people.
This is about our horizontal relationships.
There are people around us who can hurt us if they choose to do so.
Some of you know this because you have already been hurt.
You know the pain is all too real.
You know the difficulties that you have had to deal with because someone had hurt you, maybe even betrayed you.
I have been there and chances are that you have too.
You have had people in your life who have hurt you or have the real potential to hurt you.
Look at what Jesus previously said about “them”.
Matthew 10:16-
Brother will betray brother.
Father will betray their children.
Children will rise up against their parents.
You will bear the hurts and scars from horizontal relationships.
It will happen.
Should it happen?
Of course not, but Jesus said what they did to him, they will do to you.
How should you respond to “them”?
Don’t be afraid of them.
Why?
This morning, as we talk about how we can live the good life, the Bible gives us three reason why we should only fear God and not fear people.
Numerous times the Scriptures talk about the fear of God.
The Bible talks often about the importance of fearing the LORD.
Some people have tried to reduce fearing the LORD to “showing respect”; however, the word used in both the Old Testament and the New Testament does not allow for such a reduction.
In both the Old Testament and the New Testament, the word indicates the feeling you have when you are in the presence of greatness and awesomeness.
It is more than just simple respect.
When I was in college, I was at a school in South Carolina.
It was the year 2000 and the nation was in the middle of an election cycle.
As I was walking down the sidewalk, I saw a man surrounded by a group of guys in black suits and ear pieces.
I knew immediately who it was.
It was George W. Bush.
Normally, I am not a person who is at a loss for words, but he came up to me, asked me my name, and shook my hand.
I had a feeling.
This man was more powerful than I was and his position in life was higher than mine.
I felt nervous and my palms were sweaty.
He was just a man, but I recognized his position in comparison to mine.
Have you ever had an experience like that when you recognized that you were in the presence of awesomeness and greatness?
Now,
Now, let’s take that and apply it to what we are talking about this morning.
We aren’t to be afraid of any man.
Why?
We aren’t to be afraid of them because only God knows everything.
Fear God
1. God knows everything.
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Who will uncover everything?
God will make everything known.
Jesus has been appointed Judge of the world.
He knows everything and there is nothing hidden that won’t be made known.
This fact should cause us to pause.
Jesus knows everything, even your motivations.
He knows the thoughts and intents of your heart.
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