Delivered on 29 August,2010
By Rev Dr John Evans
Jeremiah 2:4-13
Psalm 81:1, 10-16
Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16
Luke 14:1, 7-14
Today I wish to consider “the good life”. What is it – how do we get it?
The good life could be described in many ways – a fulfilled life; perhaps a life lived with meaning and purpose; scripture speaks of eternal life or the fullness of life. Even a happy life is in a sense “a good life”. The point is this purpose of living- is indeed to live well; and then doesn’t our faith have something to do with that life lived well?
Last week I considered the ministry of the prophets, in particular the ministry of Jeremiah. In a real sense this also was Jeremiah’s concern – the Children of Israel, the Jewish people, were not living a good life . . . and they would soon suffer for this. They had forsaken the covenant, that covenant – the law of Moses – the way of Yahweh offered a fulfilled life. Moses much earlier had put to the Children of Israel a choice – certainly as they were about to cross into the promised land:
“See I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I am …

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