Title: Faith is self-transformation.
Then he said to them, "Fill the jars with water." They filled the jars to the brim. Now, scoop it up and bring it to the banquet hall." Then he gave them to them, but the banquet hall tasted the water-based wine and didn't know where it came from, but the servants who brought it knew.
Charles Darwin (1809-1882), an English evolutionist, wrote a famous book, the so-called book.
This book really caused a sensation.
The authority of the church in the Middle Ages was so strong that they dared not speak from the standpoint of natural science. Ever since he published this book, all evolutionists have quoted and followed his theory as if a savior had appeared.
To summarize Darwin's argument, he said 'Natural Selection Theory' that all living things do not sit still and are constantly changing, and that change is the origin of a new species by the natural environment. In other words, all living things change, and that change is changed by the environment that surrounds them. The theory is that if a species cannot adapt to the environment and does not change accordingly, the species will become extinct or appear in a new form.
Being strong and strong doesn't mean surviving on Earth.
Judging from what appeared in the fossils, there were obviously beasts like dinosaurs, but today, if you see that the species disappeared from the earth, it means that they cannot survive because they are strong and large. This means that only those organisms that change when they change survive.
I am not a proponent of Darwinian evolutionary theory.
But I have to admit that his observation skills were amazing.
When everyone else is silent, he must be highly appreciated for being able to clearly express his convictions and speak up.
Even in our religious life today, if we do not change when we change, we can only say that it is a dead faith. Just because you go to church without any change doesn't mean you have a living faith. It means that people who are challenged in their own way with respect to the phenomena of this world must strive to live according to the Word. Just like flowing water, if you believe without any conscious thought, your faith is already dead. Faith is always challenged, and the history of self-transformation must be continued. That change means that we must develop the strength to overcome through faith while living in that era. A life of faith that is too chronic or too self-righteous means that it will soon become extinct on its own. True believers are not fossilized personalities.
1. In that sense, all believers must change themselves.
Just as living things will become extinct if they do not change, if believers do not change, the price of faith will be cut off. Just as all animals that have not been changed are dead, believers who cannot be changed will soon disappear.
Numbers 14:18 says, "The Lord is slow to anger and is very kind to him, and he forgives iniquity and transgression, but he will never forgive the one who is to be punished, but he will pay the iniquity of fathers to children, to the third and fourth generations."
It means that faith that does not change by itself will end in the three or four generations.
Organisms come to fruition through growth and change.
Whether plants or animals, if they do not change and do not adapt, they are bound to self-destruct.
This is also true for businesses.
It is said that companies also have a lifespan.
Businesses must also prepare for a recession when there is a boom, and when there is a recession, they must have the wisdom to anticipate a boom in order to participate in their own change. Without self-reform and change, companies will inevitably decline.
We see this all too clearly in the reality of our society today.
Why did such social unrest and restructuring have resulted?
It is the result of not changing itself. It is a result that has not changed when it should be changed.
In this way, it is the same with faith.
You have to adapt to this principle.
Faith that does not respond to the circumstances of the times will decline by itself.
2. Therefore, the Christian faith is self-transformation.
?쏷herefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away; behold, the new has come??(2 Corinthians 5:17).
It is the world of faith that must change in Christ.
A person of faith means a person who has changed.
A new person means a changed person.
All the people of faith in the Bible are people who have changed themselves.
These are the people who have turned into this and this.
If Simon had remained as Simon, he would have been nothing more than a man who ate and ate fish in the Sea of Galilee.
If Saul had remained as Saul, he might have become a member of the National Assembly or a judge and lived on the periphery of power.
However, as a new man in Christ, the fisherman became a disciple of Jesus Christ, and because he was transformed into a new man in Christ, he became a messenger of the gospel victorious with his bare fists without fear in front of the Roman bayonet.
It is truly amazing.
Faith changes people.
Faith changes a person's values.
Faith also changes our character.
The prodigals rise to the ranks of saints.
This is an amazing change.
The problem, however, is that this change only occurs in .
Even if we change, we must change in Christ.
It is difficult if people become people who have changed because of money.
Even between brothers, they cause discord over money.
The relationship between parent and child is also lost.
It's a big deal when people change like this.
And a lot of people have changed that way.
Also, when a person turns into power, it becomes difficult.
You become an invisible person.
Adults don't know, and teachers don't know either.
They are focused solely on maintaining power.
Patriotic people are just words, but in reality they become servants of power.
So I bleed a lot.
Therefore, they become enemies with many people.
People shouldn't change like this.
Also, when a person turns into knowledge, it becomes difficult.
becomes arrogant. Even God denies it.
It also denies the future. What you have in your head is what you think is the best.
When a person changes like this, it is truly irresistible.
Even if we receive evangelism, our hearts do not open.
People shouldn't change like this.
3. Therefore, we must be transformed in Christ.
Water must be wine.
Water will rot if left alone.
Water must be wine.
The wine only gets better no matter how many years pass.
How did water turn into wine?
So changed in the hand of the Lord.
It originated from absolute obedience to the word of the Lord.
When water was poured into a stone jar and asked to float it, there was behavioral obedience, and a miracle of change took place.
Faith is transformed when acts of obedience follow.
Change is a miracle.
It is a miracle that a person like fresh water becomes a wine taster.
Change must be changed in Christ.
We must be transformed by the Spirit of Christ.
However, the Apostle John said that spirits are spirits, but do not believe them all.
This is because it can be transformed into Satan's evil spirit.
The Spirit of Christ is the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is a holy spirit.
A person must change into water and the Holy Spirit to become a true person.
What would you do if you only changed to flesh?
No matter how much you decorate the shell, it cannot change a person.
No matter how gorgeously wrapped with money, it cannot change a person.
Only the Holy Spirit can see the kingdom of God,
Only when we are transformed by the Holy Spirit can we enter the kingdom of God.
Everyone!
Is my faith changing me?
I'll have to ask myself.
Is my faith really changing me now?
No matter how much I go to church, if I feel that nothing has changed,
It's not too late from now on, so you just have to obey the word.
When you say Float the water!
How vain are the rational thinkers?
How did you know that fresh water would turn into wine?
This is still the case today.
If you want to change yourself, please obey the Word.
You will experience changes you never knew existed.
??How could a person who had been lying in one place for 38 years know how to pick up his seat and walk? ??How could a blind man in a boat know how to open his eyes and see when he was born? ??With 5 loaves of barley loaves and 2 fish, how could you have thought that 5,000 people would eat it? ??How would you have known that a person who had been dead for four days would come back to life? These are all changes made through Christ.
Our faith must be changed in Christ.
Now we have to look at ourselves.
Do you see how much I have changed?
Also, take a look at how much my personality and habits have changed.
Our faith must be changed in the Lord.
You must change in the Lord to survive.
So I hope that you will enter the ranks of the remnant.
I hope that all of us will become truly transformed believers and be able to stand right before the Lord. And I hope that you will be able to taste a new world through self-transformation. ??