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Title: A Beautiful Life


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A Beautiful Life
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What is life all about?
  • What is the good life?
  • How do we get to the good life?
  • What is it that makes us happy?
  • Or is that the right way to say it?
  • Is it instead, what makes us blessed?

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Psalm 1
  • (Psa 1 NKJV) Blessed is the man Who walks not in
    the counsel of the ungodly,
  • Nor stands in the path of sinners,
  • Nor sits in the seat of the scornful
  • 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
  • And in His law he meditates day and night.

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Psalm 1
  • (Psa 1 NKJV) 3 He shall be like a tree Planted
    by the rivers of water,
  • That brings forth its fruit in its season,
  • Whose leaf also shall not wither
  • And whatever he does shall prosper.

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Psalm 1
  • (Psa 1 NKJV) 4 The ungodly are not so,
  • But are like the chaff which the wind drives
    away.
  • 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the
    judgment,
  • Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

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Psalm 1
  • 6 For the LORD knows the way of the
    righteous,
  • But the way of the ungodly shall perish.

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It was Augustine who said,
  • You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and
    our hearts are restless until
    they rest in you.
  • So how do we find out what life is all about, and
    how we are to live?

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All things that
  • pertain to life and godliness,

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2 Peter 11-4 NKJV
  • Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus
    Christ, To those who have obtained like precious
    faith with us by the righteousness of our God and
    Savior Jesus Christ 2 Grace and peace be
    multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of
    Jesus our Lord,

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2 Peter 11-4 NKJV
  • 3 as His divine power has given to us all
    things that pertain to life and godliness,
    through the knowledge of Him who called us by
    glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to
    us exceedingly great and precious promises, that
    through these you may be partakers of the divine
    nature, having escaped the corruption that is in
    the world through lust.

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We must admit we need a rule book.
  • (Jer 1023 NKJV)
  • O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself
    It is not in man who walks
    to direct his own steps.

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Our rule book is the word of God.
  • (2 Tim 316-17 NKJV) All Scripture is given
    by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
    doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
    instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man
    of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for
    every good work.

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It is a complete set of instructions. 
  • (2 Tim 317 NKJV) that the man of God may be
    complete, thoroughly equipped for every good
    work.

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Home is where the heart is.
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God is the One Who gave us Home.
  •  The first home was the Garden of Eden.
  • It was a perfect home.
  •  Adam and Eve had each other and lived peacefully
    together until Satan came on the scene.
  • Sin entered the world, and everything changed
    immediately.

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Sin entered the world, and everything changed
immediately.
  • (Gen 39-12 NKJV) Then the LORD God called to
    Adam and said to him, "Where are you?" 10 So he
    said, "I heard Your voice in the garden, and I
    was afraid because I was naked and I hid
    myself." 11 And He said, "Who told you that you
    were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which
    I commanded you that you should not eat?" 12
    Then the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be
    with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."

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The peace and harmony of the home was gone.
  •  Adam blames Eve for his problems.
  • Ultimately, he blames God.
  • Eve blames the Serpent.
  • In the end, their home is lost.
  • Their lives will be lost, they will die!
  • The happiness of the home was shattered.

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The Garden Home was lost
  • (Gen 322-24 NKJV) Then the LORD God said,
    "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to
    know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his
    hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat,
    and live forever" 23 therefore the LORD God
    sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the
    ground from which he was taken. 24 So He drove
    out the man and He placed cherubim at the east
    of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which
    turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of
    life.

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Today, there are rules for the home.
  •  (1 Cor 71-5 NIV) Now for the matters you wrote
    about It is good for a man not to marry. 2 But
    since there is so much immorality, each man
    should have his own wife, and each woman her own
    husband. 3 The husband should fulfill his
    marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife
    to her husband. 4 The wife's body does not
    belong to her alone but also to her husband.

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Today, there are rules for the home.
  •  (1 Cor 71-5 NIV) In the same way, the husband's
    body does not belong to him alone but also to his
    wife. 5 Do not deprive each other except by
    mutual consent and for a time, so that you may
    devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together
    again so that Satan will not tempt you because of
    your lack of self-control.

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He has given us all things.
  • (2 Pet 13-4 NKJV) 3 as His divine power has
    given to us all things that pertain to life and
    godliness, through the knowledge of Him who
    called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have
    been given to us exceedingly great and precious
    promises, that through these you may be partakers
    of the divine nature, having escaped the
    corruption that is in the world through lust.

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The rules include the men
  • He is responsible for training his children.
  • (Eph 64 NKJV) And you, fathers, do not provoke
    your children to wrath, but bring them up in the
    training and admonition of the Lord.

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The rules include the men
  •  He is to provide for their physical needs.
  •  (1 Tim 58 NKJV) But if anyone does not provide
    for his own, and especially for those of his
    household, he has denied the faith and is worse
    than an unbeliever.

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The home is to be permanent.
  •  (1 Cor 710-11 NKJV) Now to the married I
    command, yet not I but the Lord A wife is not to
    depart from her husband. 11 But even if she
    does depart, let her remain unmarried or be
    reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not
    to divorce his wife.

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The heavenly home is yet to be
  •  (1 Tim 48 NKJV) For bodily exercise profits a
    little, but godliness is profitable for all
    things, having promise of the life that now is
    and of that which is to come.

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What happens if we mess up?
  •  There is forgiveness, but there are the scars.
  •  For King David, it was a memory that would not
    go away.

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Have mercy upon me, O God!
  • (Psa 511-3 NKJV) Have mercy upon me, O God,
    According to Your lovingkindness According to
    the multitude of Your tender mercies, Blot out my
    transgressions. 2 Wash me thoroughly from my
    iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I
    acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is
    always before me.

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For Paul, there were the terrible memories.
  •  (1 Tim 115-16 NKJV) This is a faithful saying
    and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus
    came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am
    chief. 16 However, for this reason I obtained
    mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show
    all longsuffering, as a pattern to those who are
    going to believe on Him for everlasting life.

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  • He has given us the rule book, may we ask Him to
    help us keep it.

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  • For those who make mistakes, there is
    forgiveness, but there may still be the scars
    that we live with.
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