What is the Meaning of Life

Series Introduction: The Bus Ride – meaningless and purposeless living

Meaninglessness in life – we don’t know where we’re going

Why are we alive – where are we going? – search for security

We’re unique – striving to impress others for recognition

We are searching for personal acceptance and fulfilment

Review – Why are we alive?

Beginning talks on order and design

Order and design – Evolution

Order & Design – Problems of evolution

Order and design – Magnificence of universe

Order and design – wonders of heart and body

Order and design – The complexities of the body

Order and design – Makeup of the world

Order and design continued

Order and design – the mind

Order and design – Argument for God’s existence

Evidence for God’s existence

Arguments for God’s existence – Personal being

Review of meaningless – order & design continued

Moral argument – selfishness, conscience and intuition

Moral argument continued – consciousness and selfishness

Moral Argument – where does sense of “I oughtness come from?

Brief review – Moral “I oughtness” selfishness – universal intuition/God

Empirical and intuitive evidence for God’s existence

Empirical evidence for God’s existence – clues from universe

Why are we alive? Is there a God? What is God like? How is He reveal

What is God like? Statements from Homer and Buddha

Various evidences for God’s existence – Buddha, Mohammed etc.

Review: Why are we alive?

Review: How did God communicate to us? Homer, Buddha ,Mohammed?

Is God a personal being? Who revealed Him? Buddha, Mohammed?

Is there a personal being? A look at other religions.

Brief look at other religions – introduction to Bible documents

The N.T. manuscripts and their reliability

The reliability of the new testament biblical documents

Further talks on biblical manuscripts

Manuscript evidence for Jesus’ life

Manuscript evidences – External sources

Biblical testimony to Jesus’ life and manuscript evidences

Evidences for the resurrection

Review: Order and design – Historicity of Bible as testimony to Jesus

Historicity of Jesus – eyewitness reports

Historicity of Jesus’ life – comparison of ancient manuscripts – Caesar

N.T.manuscripts and authors

Authority of the bible in relation to Jesus as Son of the Maker

Review: meaningless of life – where are we going?

Review: Order and design – Bibles’ testimony to Jesus life

Who was Jesus? A look at His character

Who was Jesus? Liar, lunatic legend?

Who was Jesus? continued – Liar, lunatic legend arguments

Liar, lunatic legend arguments continued

Jesus’ character as Son of God – testimony of His perfect life

Liar,lunatic,legend – Jesus divinity miracles and death

Review – Evidences for resurrection – only Jesus broke the death barrier

Jesus’ proof of divinity by resurrection – well substantiated proofs

Various theories of resurrection/death exposed – swoon theory etc.

Evidences for resurrection – apostolic witnesses, haluicinations etc.

More proofs for the resurrection

Review of purpose of life – More resurrection evidences; hallucinations

More evidences for resurrection

Review – Resurrection: Jesus broke the death the barrier

More evidences for the resurrection

Resurrection evidences – Leslie’s laws

Resurrection evidences – Leslie’s laws continued

Review of the our existence in this world

Search for security – examples from Howard Hughe’s death

Searching for security, significance, happiness

You are unique! Problem with selfishness and self esteem

Seeking for uniqueness we’ve become monsters

Jesus tells we are unique – selfish search for self – esteem

Review – Jesus divinity – Search for security – we are dissatisfied

Security – Reasons for anxiety

Looking to things for security – only God can provide security

Security – start trusting God instead of people and things

Further talks on security and happiness

How to live, the flesh life. Security in Jesus

Real love: people, things can’t give true love

We need love – we substitute people and things for God’s love

Only God can give us security and happiness and love

We are made in God’s image – We know love by knowing God

Review – No satisfaction from people and things – we need God’s love

We are made in God’s image – We have His Spirit

We have a spirit from God: body, soul, spirit

Review of Jesus’ divinity – explanation of series – search for meaning in life

Explanation of the nature of mankind: body, soul and spirit

God made us to be like Him in a love relationship – we have free wills

We have free wills and can choose to accept or reject God

We were made to have fellowship with God and know His mind

Review – free wills – God made us mainly for a relationship with Himself

We’re made for love, not just to do specific work – God provides

God loves, wants to know us as friends but we rebelled s around us

We need love – the void in our lives only filled by God

We try to get love, significance and happiness from the world & men

Looking for significance, we become men pleasers and fearful of men

Search for security in things and people – always dissatisfied

We are independent selfish monsters!

We’re always looking for great happiness that only comes from God

Search for happiness in favorable circumstances or relationships

When we know God, he shows us what to do – we substitute the world

We’re enslaved by people’s opinions – Jekyll and Hyde syndrome – we’re afraid of men

Beginning of Jekyll/Hyde dual nature problem

The inward evil nature – uncontrollable

How do we deal with the evil nature?

We become evil by trying to get things from the world and things

Further Illustrations from the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Why do we do evil when we want to do good?

Evil part of us tries to manipulate the world for security

Review: Jekyll and Hyde continued – we are unique in God’s eyes

Evil nature looks to the world for security instead of God

How to be delivered from the evil nature. Illustration from the bible; Romans

Searching for self – esteem, our personalities become perverted

Mr. Hyde personality draws attention to ourselves

How to deal with anxiety and stress and worry

Why is it so hard to be happy?

Old nature depends on the world and people instead of God – that’s sin

Futility of trying to tame the evil nature

We can’t overcome our evil natures

Deliverance from the evil nature

Jesus’ death dealt with the power of our evil nature

Jesus destroyed our evil nature in eternity – we have to choose – faith

Dr.Jekyll Mr. Hyde syndrome – the selfish personality

How do we get free from of our evil nature?

God foresaw our evil nature problem and dealt with it in Jesus

God destroyed our evil nature in Jesus’ death

We have a new nature in Jesus from before the foundation of the world

God completely remade our evil nature in Jesus

Our evil nature becomes more clever in disguising itself

Results of living as there is no God with our free will choices

Faith in God’s eternal work of Jesus’ death brings deliverance

Exercising faith releases the miracle of God’s nature in you

Review: deliverance from evil nature

Deliverance from evil nature through work of the Holy Spirit

We have been remade in Jesus – accepted by faith and experienced

Deliverance from anxiety and worry

Regeneration – We have been destroyed and remade in Christ before time

Further examples of experiences of situations of evil nature

Further discussions on the problem of the dual nature

Review of dual nature – we have a new personality in Jesus

Review – Christ’s divinity – we’ve been remade in Christ’s death

Desperation – we can’t continue on unless we believe Jesus is in us

Why are we here – bewilderment of life

Why are we here? Review of Jesus person – we rejected God’s plan for us

Jesus revealed God’s plan for our security and happiness

Review of Jesus’ life – God will supply our needs and give us significance

Jekyll and Hyde review – Purpose of Jesus’ death is to destroy our evil nature

Review: order and design; God’s purpose for making us

God made us in His image and wants to meet our needs

Beginning of body, soul, spirit talks

Continuation of body, soul, spirit talks

Body soul and spirit applications

Further applications of body, soul, spirit

Our personalities: mystical experiences

Soul and spirit: the personality

Our personalities: the spirit communicates with God

God made us for a love relationship with Himself

Our personality: the conscience

How God speaks through our conscience

How God speaks to us through our spirit’s function

Brief Review: Communion with God

We’re made for a love relationship with God: communicated by spirit

Review: introduction to the study of personality

What makes up a person’s personality traits?

How our spirit commutes with God

Body, soul, spirit: the conscience and intuition

Our spirit enables us to communicate with God

The Personality; how it forms our mind

Continuation of body, soul, spirit talks

Body, soul, spirit; the function of the will

Analysis of man’s personality

Our minds dominated by our bodies

Brief review – How our personalities were meant to work

The emptiness of the inner life; insecurity

Body, soul, spirit diagrams – we’re dominated by our bodies

Our spirits our dead – we live by our emotions

God guides us through our spirits as we desire to know Him

God wants to know us as friends – He speaks through our spirits

Our spirits are dead – our decisions make or break us

God comes into us and gives us His spirit – new birth

Our spirits our dead – we need the new birth

We’re constantly trying to please people

Review: order and design, historicity of Jesus, Bible

Review of Jesus’ ethical teachings – summary of body, soul, spirit

God tells us we are unique – He reveals His plan for us in our spirits

Review: historicity of bible, body, soul, spirit continued

Our deadness inside goes after false needs

We don’t know who we are – we are dead inside – controlled by circumstances

Striving for lasting security – we are dead and empty inside

No identity – we are trying to find ourselves and become like others

We’re people pleasers – we’re dead inside – need to be born again

We are automotons, imitators – need to be born again

We are dead inside, slaves to people, circumstances: need for new birth

We’re driven to please others – we need to be born again to be free

Review – Order and design; only Jesus gives meaning to life

We’re dead inside – need for new birth – change our ways: repentance

We are dead and need to change – the need to repent and have new birth

Further talks on our deadness and need for repentance and new birth

We’re slaves to opinions and things – God recreates us – repent & believe

We can’t find ourselves, try to please others – need to change, rebirth

God can recreate us – we need to believe that and change our mind

Brief review – We fell insecure and die inside when we look to things

Review of Christ’s divinity – What are we living for?

We have lost ourselves – we are driven by search for security – Only Jesus can make us alive and fulfil us

We have lost ourselves – we are driven by search for security – Only Jesus can make us alive and fulfil us

Jesus wants to make our spirit come alive because of His love for us

We become slaves as we seek security and significance from the world and others – We need to be born again

Security, significance continued – How to be born again

The need to be born again – we are not real people

How to have our spirit come alive: belief and repentance