Title: Feces of the Age
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The feces of the times (Luke 12:54-57)
Luke 12:54-57 "And he said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising from the west, you immediately say, "It's going to rain." Yes, 55 and when you see a south wind blowing, you say, "It will be very hot." You know how to discern the nature of heaven and earth, but how can you not discern this age? 57 And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?
How to understand and live in the present world? What kind of life are you going to live? It is directly related to one's view of life.
Jesus prophesied to the Jews that they would be destroyed because they became evil in their hypocrisy. However, they listened to it bluntly, or took it rather badly. Then, around AD 70, it was conquered by the Romans, and as Jesus prophesied, Jerusalem fell and the kingdom was destroyed.
In Noah's day, only 8 of Noah's family were saved by the water judgment, and everyone in the world died from the water judgment. The cause is...
Matthew 24:39 “They did not understand until the flood came and destroyed them all, so it will be with the coming of the Son of Man.”
Genesis 19:14 “Lot went out and told his daughters and his sons-in-law, who were betrothed to them, saying, “The LORD will destroy this city, so get up and leave this place.” But they thought it a joke.
These days are said to be the last days. For what reason are you saying that? At this time, we are going to ponder the Word under the title of <The Feces of the Ages>.
1. Living out of faith with hypocrisy darkens the spiritual eyes
In verse 56, it says, “Hypocrites, you know how to discern the nature of heaven and earth, but how can you not discern this age?”
A person's knowledge is the measure that makes perception possible. However, knowledge is often kept in the so-called head storage and not utilized.
Faith must have the principle of the Word and the functionality to put that truth into practice, and it is done under the influence of the Holy Spirit. At the time when Jesus was teaching on earth, the religious leaders of the Jews, the scribes, Pharisees, and lawyers, were very knowledgeable about the law with very clever knowledge. However, their faith fell into hypocrisy, and was only a formality, and there was no practice.
Matthew 23:3 “Therefore, whatever they say, do and keep it, but do not imitate what they do, for they speak only and do not do.”
They say that the meaning and principle of the law were correct. But the action is not right. It is absurd to say that you know but do not act. Jesus declared them blind.
Matthew 23:26 “You blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside, and you will be clean on the outside as well.”
People may become sluggish, but the more people know the Bible and believe in Jesus, the more they lose tension and become sluggish, and their spiritual eyes get darker.
2. The excrement of the times is the new view of history of the saints
In verse 56, '...how can you not understand this age?' When Jesus came to this world and prophesied the future of terrible calamity for the destruction of the Jews, the disciples were very puzzled. I couldn't get out of it and I didn't understand it well.
Even for us who have heard the gospel, when we accept Jesus and our spiritual eyes are opened, the first change in our values is the understanding of history. It is understood as the history of the world waiting for the judgment day amid God's intervention, not as the world was created by itself or just rolling around. that's what was done
Romans 12:2 “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.”
When you become a child of God, you know that the contents of this world, a world of unbelievers, are actually under the control of the devil.
Ephesians 2:2 “In those days you walked in them, following the customs of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience.”
1 John 5:19 “And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the evil one.”
Whether you admit it or not, the world is full of life filled with material, honor, and self-interest rather than God under the control of the devil. It is getting worse and worse, and the global village is adding to the signs of the end day by day.
Romans 13:11 “And ye know the time, that the hour has already come to awake from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.”
3. You must have the wisdom to judge right from wrong
57 'And why do you not judge for yourself what is right?' If it is true for us in the text and in the Bible, the gospel and Jesus Christ, the protagonist of the gospel, are the truth itself. There are cases in which life is ruined by being deceived by the wrong philosophy without being able to judge which ideas and messages are correct in one generation. Recently, the so-called poster that lives on its own means that we will live by treating the world with the characteristics of self-determination rather than the traditional view of all eras. In other words, the teacher is gone and he lives as he pleases.
But there is a principle in everything. There must be a measure of whether it is right or wrong. The clarification of the truth is done through the Bible. That is why the Bible is expressed in the words canon, canon, measure, and measure. By what scale do you and I judge the view of life, the view of the country, and the view of happiness?
The word dokimavzw means to prove that it is genuine and value it after an examination. So, when we live the life of faith, we teach them not to believe in any way and judge well. 1 John 4:1 “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.”
All kinds of social crimes and religious societies that were unimaginable in the past have also been degraded by secularization, and the church, which should be a place of love and harmony, is constantly being sued daily. No matter how positively you try to look at the world, the world is nothing like the Lord's time or now, there is nothing to be excited about.
Viewing the world positively doesn't change anything. It's just a restoration movement with the gospel. The world has to be criticized, so we have to find and make homework that we need to rescue and restore. With this task in mind, the church exists in the world.
If you become a member of a church and live to the extent of fasting and earnestly asking for blessings to be healed and rich in order to live well in the world, then you are a religious person and not the true people of God.
Are you and your age well-disciplined? If you are saved by believing in the Lord, you must save the world. To save the world, you must be able to discern the times. I pray that you and I will be able to save the world that has become.
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Source: Cyber Theological Seminary View Original Author: nulserom