Title: 一tarantongou 100
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2010.5.23 Sunday Morning Worship: Using 1 Talent 100 Times
Text: Matthew 25:14-15
One of my favorite songs to sing to young children is a song called The Snail's House.
“Let’s build a snail house. Let's make it beautiful. Let's build the snail's house gradually bigger and bigger and smaller and smaller Let's make it beautiful.” This song also has rhythm.
Most animals build houses. According to this song, even snails seem to want a pretty house.
I also want to have a beautiful home.
How can I have the desire to have a beautiful house? Is it not my desire to have a beautiful house?
So, in the 70's, this song was a huge hit.
“I want to build a picturesque house on that green meadow and live with my beloved for a hundred years~" Like the lyrics of this song, everyone seems to express their longing for my beautiful home in the song.
The French philosopher Diderot went to his study one day wearing a new gown that was given to him by a friend.
The desk looked shabby. So I replaced the desk with a new one. Then, this time, the chair became dissatisfied, and the wall hangings were also unsightly, so I ordered a whole new one.
The term ‘the Diderot Effect’, which was coined here, refers to a phenomenon in which a new product dominates consciousness and thus encourages consumption. For this reason, the “Die-Deroes Effect” is not a very welcome word.
To borrow the expression of young people these days, the term Diderot effect is not a ‘good word’. However, I and Elder Kim of Sasang Church were caught in the magic of this Diderot effect.
A few days ago, our church had a refurbishment. The paint mission team from Sasang Church came and did the paint job. But it was at this point that the Diderot effect began to appear.
After painting, things started to look shabby this time. There are things I want to change and fix.
The church sign was starting to look shabby. Then, Elder Kim suggested it, and from then on, I began to have a secret hope for the signboard replacement.
Last week I went to a missionary conference in Cheongju, Korea. I also went to Ulsan for work in the Western Region. When those two events were over, I went straight to Busan and visited Sasang Church, which had brought paint missions to Akashi Church. He attended the Friday night prayer meeting and expressed his thanks in front of the members. And before that, I met a special person.
I heard from that person that he promised to go to Japan to serve the Akashi Church next month.
That person is a butler named Ki-Hoon Han, a signboard expert and artist in the lighting system.
This was another amazing thing God was doing that surprised me.
As if it was God's preparation, he was the deacon of Hwanhee Church.
When I came to Japan, he moved from Sasang to Hwanhee Church.
Through conversation with that deacon, I was very happy to learn that this man is a truly faithful man who loves God more than anyone else.
And someone who will help with the sound-related parts has been appointed soon.
God sent such people and allowed them to meet.
The desire to beautify God's house is never a bad thing, right?
At least for the House of God, the word 'Didero's effect' feels like a 'good word'.
If you get greedy to beautify your home, you may have to discuss it with your wallet or throw it away and regret it later. However, the Akashi Church, the house of God, shows the beautiful images of the volunteers here and there, who volunteer to serve.
The common image that can be found in such people was the field of their hearts, 'What can I do to please God?'
Such service and giving are not loss or trouble, but joy and happiness to give to God. Heaven was already on their faces, who were happy to give.
This time, I went to Korea, met my family, and met my beloved family of faith after a long time.
I have given them as much as I can give them. I was very happy to give it to you.
But there were others who couldn't stand it because they wanted to give it to me.
A loving heart brings greater joy to the giver.
What do children usually receive? are very interested in
No, it's not just a problem with children. Immature people, even adults, are more obsessed with receiving.
I sometimes pretend to ask the children of our church to take a bite of what they are eating.
Then, the next time you don't like what you like, you write a favor.
Then I just pretend to eat it. It was really happy and lovely.
However, there are times when I give voluntarily without asking for it. Then she's so pretty, I want to hug her tight.
And I felt the urge to give this child something better, more.
So, what about God?
How will God view the hearts and practices of devotion to God?
A heart that wants to give for the one you love, a heart that knows how to give, these are the habits that lead to happiness.
How can those who love God give their talents for God? He is a person who always thinks about
“God, you know that I love you, right?” The person who tries to sneak away is a person who looks like a person who throws out a lot of defaulted checks.
Paint majoring with paint, Electrical lighting majoring with electrical lighting, Music majoring with music, how can we please God with the talents we each received? He who worries about is a Christian.
Such a faith is so beautiful, it seems that God cannot help but bless such a person.
That's when God's principle of blessing, 30 times, 60 times, 100 times, will be applied.
God's calculation method is at least 30 times.
Last week, when we finished work in Ulsan, the pastor who was guiding our group gave us a one-day tour to Gyeongju to treat guests from afar.
There, for the first time in my life, I had the opportunity to see the process of making pottery. As I watched, I learned that after passing through the hands of a potter, ceramics go into a hot kiln and heat up from a few hundred degrees to a thousand degrees at the very least, and then bake the ceramics with the smoke that comes out of that time. So I learned that it wasn't something that was made roughly.
In a very hot fire, the pottery barely came out by enduring not a day or two, but a month.
It was a luxury that was expensive. So, they were born as luxury goods priced from tens of thousands of won to as many as several million won.
The material for the pottery is the best clay in the area and the best soil is used. But sometimes our talents alone do not reach the full joy of being offered to God.
The pride of being a talented person alone cannot please God.
Also, even if you have talent, things don't go as you want, and sometimes it's cramped and twisted.
Then you need to remember the patience of this pottery.
Only ceramics that have endured a long, hot and suffocating tunnel-like time are born as luxury goods and are loved by people.
It may be the same with the talents I have. Now may be a time of patience.
It's really hard, but there's a reason it's hard. However, depending on whether that difficult time is a time of patience with God or a time of struggling alone, the results will vary tremendously.
If you look at 1 Kings 17:12,
After Elijah asks the widow of Sarepta for water, there is a passage where he asks for something to eat. Then the woman
“All I have is a handful of flour in the aftertaste and a few drops of oil in the bottle. I was going to pick up some firewood right now and eat the last or all before our hats die.”
, but Elijah demands it.
Then the woman obeyed and gave it all.
What the woman gave to Elijah was little in quantity.
But in the land of famine, they were all there. When Elijah asked for it, we know that it was a test to see if the woman had a love for God in her heart, not Elijah's compulsion to steal and fill my stomach.
She obeyed Elijah's words and gave up his possessions without claiming it.
As a result, she was blessed.
Looking at 1 Kings 17:13-16,
‘Elijah said to him, “Do not be afraid, go and do as you have said. But first make me a little loaf of it and bring it to me, and then make it for you and your son.
The cask of flour will not run out, and the jug of oil will not run out, saith the LORD, the God of Israel, until the day the LORD sends rain on the earth. He went and did as Elijah had said, and he and Elijah and his household ate for many days, but the cask of flour did not run out and the jar of oil did not run out, as the LORD had spoken through Elijah.” The content is being recorded.
Not only that, but later the only child fell ill and died, and the prophet Elijah even raised the child to life.
Dreams are not consumption. Dreams do not disappear.
Please believe that giving to God is the secret of the blessing that allows you to receive more and enjoy a more abundant life.
On this trip to Korea, I met people who rejoice in giving.
It wasn't that he knew me well before and wanted to treat me, but he treated me well with a heart that gave to God, knowing that I was a man of God who was walking the path of God's work and mission.
I have met people who do not hesitate to give to God.
Where and how did such beliefs come from? .. I came back after experiencing a lot of emotion and emotion again and again.
Thanks to that, I gained 2 kg of weight and came back. I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad about this, but... ..
Anyway, I came back to Japan, regretting the time I had with the members of the Korean church, who are full of love.
There is no one who has not received a talent from God.
But we do know that there are those who bury it in the ground, like the servant in Matthew 25:18.
Among the advertisements I saw on TV recently, the advertisement for tatami mats was very memorable, according to which Japanese people sometimes hide money or valuables under the tatami.
Let's take a look around to see if anyone around me buries their talents in the ground.
Talents are not money or talents to fill my stomach.
Talents aren't even a tool for boasting.
The talent is a gift that God has given to each of us for the purpose of bringing joy to God and men alike, and to obtain joy as well.
Jesus did not use the great talent of being the Messiah to boast of himself.
It has not been abused for the purpose of personal happiness.
It was simply used according to the will of Heavenly Father.
So he could bear the cross.
Jesus gave His all for us.
We are now enjoying the talents of Jesus.
With the talents of Jesus and the price of blood, I have been forgiven of my sins.
Because of Jesus, we were promised the kingdom of heaven, and because of Jesus, we can enjoy the authority of being a child of God on this earth. We are now enjoying the precious and precious talents of Jesus that were given through the pain of the cross, betrayal of people, and the tunnel of loneliness. Let's praise the Lord.
I know now is the time to focus on the use of our talents on that good God. I will pray with all my heart, thinking about your words.