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  Day 23: Acts 23:1       A righteous life of faith     A righteous life of faith entails, firstly, serving God with a clear conscience in all things.  Paul boldly confessed before the gathering of priests and council members that he served God with a clear conscience in all things.  Like Paul, we should strive to have a good conscience every day.   Secondly, it means despising hypocrisy.  Paul referred to the high priest Ananias as a "whitewashed wall."  This expression means looking beautiful on the outside but being filled with all sorts of filth on the inside (Sang-seop Yoo).  In other words, it signifies a disconnect between outward appearance and inner reality.  We should disdain such hypocrisy.   Thirdly, it means being led by God's word.  We should live in obedience to God's word, not fearing people, but revering God.

The happiness of those who are credited as righteous by God (2)           [Romans 4:9-17]       We have already learned who is the happiest person in the world based on Romans 4:1-8.   We learned that the happiest person in this world is the one who has received the remission of all sins only through faith in Jesus Christ, and whom God credited as the righteousness.   In the midst of that, I personally created a “happiness formula”: Happiness Quotient = Only grace + Only Jesus' work on the cross + Only faith.   The more we get to know Jesus through the words of the Bible, and the more we realize what He did on the cross for our salvation, the more our faith grows.   And the more our faith grows, the more we will think of the salvation that God has given us in Jesus Christ.   And the more we think of the salvation that God has given us, the more we realize how great God's grace is.   The more we do...

The happiness of those who are credited as righteous by God (1)     [Romans 4:1-8]       Have you ever heard of the Happiness Quotient (HQ)?   HQ = GQ x AQ / BQ.   Here, “GQ” stands for Gratitude Quotient, “AQ” stands for Achievement Quotient, and “BQ” stands for Blame Quotient.   In 1998, as a result of measuring the HQ of 54 countries at the London School of Economics (LSE) in the UK, Bangladesh ranked first and Korea ranked 23 rd (Internet).   After that, it is said that Bangladesh took first place in the happiness formula (i.e. happiness quotient) created by British psychologist Rothwell and life counselor Cohen in 2002.   Economist Layard attributed two factors to why poor countries rank high in the happiness index: First, the fact that people too easily adapt to better conditions, and second, relative income levels.   Roswell and Cohen suggested ways to be happy, and these are the following (Internet):  ...

  “Many are the afflictions of the righteous”     [Psalms 34:15-22]     Can suffering be light?  If you answer "Yes" to this question, how is this possible?  As I was reading what Pastor Nam-joon Kim said,  I got some answers on how suffering can be light.  This is what Pastor Kim said: ‘The depth of sin in the world becomes clearer in the sufferings of the righteous.  ...  The suffering of the righteous is a sense of atonement for the sins of the world.  There is sure punishment for evil is human feeling, intuition and belief.  But the world is tainted with evil.  Then isn’t this world supposed to be perished?  The fact that the world is evil and is not being perished means someone is paying the price for sin.  That is the meaning of the sufferings of the righteous.  The suffering of the righteous is to bear the sins of the world and pay the p...