Title: Enterprise/Romans 8:15-18
Content 14. Action Guide 6): Enterprise (Romans 8:15-18)
We are children of God. The text states that we are God's children, and if we are God's children, then we are God's heirs or heirs. Ephesians 1:11 et seq., “has made us an inheritance in him”. When we realize what this means, we will live a life of power.
Do you know what God wants to teach us “while we live in this world”? That is the terrifying promise of the word 'enterprise' today. God trains us as heirs of the “inheritance.” You take away your health, and you take away your material. He makes us live in misunderstanding, contempt, and disrespect. And they give you children who will remain as troubles forever. There we learn infinitely many things. What is human, what is life, what is material, what is the happiness we are seeking, and the eyes that see through the emptiness behind the dazzling colors that the world brings before us and tempts us.
Goethe said, “He who has not eaten bread mixed with tears is not worth discussing life.
Why does God allow us to live this history in this age? “As people of my country, you must be trained to reach the level you deserve there.” This is the reason why we did not take Jesus away right away even though we had secured the citizenship to go to heaven by admitting Jesus as our Savior. There are still hours of training left.
“Do not get drunk with alcohol, for this is debauchery, but be filled with the Holy Spirit” (Ephesians 5:18).
When it comes to drinking, it is said, “In the beginning, people drink alcohol, then alcohol consumes alcohol, and in the end, alcohol eats people.” At first, people control alcohol, but later, alcohol controls people. The Holy Spirit wants us to be in control. But why is it said, 'Do not get drunk, for this is debauchery'? Because drunken debauchery and debauchery wastes all of one's own. ‘What am I wasting?’ After being trained as a child of God, we are wasted without being able to bear fruit as a child of God. That is the parable of the prodigal son. The one who wasted, the one who wastes and delays his life and the mission entrusted to him, that is the most important point of the parable of the prodigal son. Devotion plays a decisive role in the extent to which a child of God grows in God, ascends in rank, and bears fruit in God throughout his life.
We are at war every moment in life. In this battle, Satan attacks with a sword, and there is no such kind of battle that I have to fight against. Satan brings out things of the world and tempts us and God promises a reward in the kingdom of heaven [Words of exhortation] ] is a war of temptation between If you chase after Satan, you will definitely get things of the world. If you follow God, you will receive the reward of the kingdom of heaven. We are at stake in this fight. Because we are God's children, God always intervenes so that we don't go after things of the world too deeply and end up in a place where we will be completely destroyed. But Satan also deceives us by chasing after God's things too much to prevent us from being praised before God. We live in this conflict. We must choose whether we will compromise with Satan to gain the things of the world or surrender before God for the reward of the kingdom of heaven. We must realize what God requires of us and faithfully carry out the work that pleases God through the life entrusted to us.