Jason Helopoulos

People find that odd, and it is odd.

I was reading someone recently that was a commentator on culture, and he said, you know, ever since the 1960s, he made this observation.

He said that people derived their self-worth from their relation to God or from what they made of themselves in the marketplace.

One of those two things.

But it's changed in our day.

Rather, now what we are to do in our day is that we begin embracing what has been labeled rightly, I think, as a therapeutic culture.

That our self-worth depends upon our subjective feelings.

Do I like myself?

Do I feel good about myself?

And what that does is it pushes you and I inward.

to be self-consumed, self-worshiping, self-identifying.

You'll notice so Jude here, he's Christ-absorbed.

He's Christ-obsessed.

And there's so much rest in this.

And it's something our culture doesn't understand.

There's rest in being a slave of Jesus Christ.

He knows that Christ died for him.

He knows he has purpose in this world because he has been called to serve.

He knows he has worth because Jesus shed his blood for him.

His life matters and his life is not his own.