Original simple principles to live by!
A. Each day 130 saved from death!
1. That is 47,450 lives each year!
2. Think also about these people did not just drop death suddenly!
3. Due to life sustaining medicine and technology they suffer a long time than die!
4. In this period of suffering, how much money and resources wasted!
B. Yes, some may say these!
1. Smoking cigarette is a horrible death!
But it helps generate jobs and create economic activities!
2. A person's death create job in building casket, tomb stone, funeral home...
Hospitals, grave yard, doctors nurses, preachers, monks...
3. How about tax on the cigarette they consumed!
4. This thinking is dangerous! Murdering a person has the same effects!
Court houses, jail houses, judges, police cars, ambulances....
C. Human is created for works God prepared for them! Gen.1:26-29
1. God said: Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. Gen.1:26
2. And let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock,
over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground. Gen.1:26
3. So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Gen.1:27
4. God blessed them and said to them:
Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.
Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that
moves on the ground. Gen.1:28
5. Then God said: I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and
every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. Gen.1:29
6. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man,
and he brought her to the man. Gen.2:22
7. The man said: This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called `woman,' for she was taken out of man. Gen.2:23
8. Jesus said: For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one.
Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate. Matt.19:5-6
D. Believe Jesus? What good is it?
This principle to live by!
1. Everything is permissible for me -- but not everything is beneficial.
Everything is permissible for me -- but I will not be mastered by anything. 1Cor.6:12
2. God wants man to be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.
Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that
moves on the ground. NOT TO BE MASTERED BY ANYTHING!
3. It is against human nature to be mastered by cigarette smoking or anything!
E. Believe Jesus? What good is it?
This principle to live by!
1. Everything is permissible -- but not everything is beneficial.
Everything is permissible -- but not everything is constructive. 1Cor.10:23
2. God wants man to be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.
Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that
moves on the ground.
3. Our job is to come up ways to help perfected works God prepared for us!
Yes, concentrate on this line of thinking and doing!
May the Lord bless you and keep you always! Preach this January 13, 2019.