Title: Fellowship of Saints and Neighbors
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Sermon day - 100221 Sunday day
Title - Fellowship of Saints and Neighbors
Bible - Romans 13:8
Neighbors generally refer to people who live close to where I live, and in the Christian sense some people I should be close to.
Therefore, we must establish the right attitude toward our neighbors and strive to do our best.
Those who help our neighbors are also those who need our help.
When our relationship with our neighbors is right, our faith can be recognized.
Yehwa-A tree that connects heaven, earth, and neighbors
There was a king in Finland.
The king ruled the country well, so the people lived happily without any worries.
But the king had great sorrow.
It was because there was no prince to succeed him, only a princess.
So, with the intention of selecting the princess's groom and passing it on for generations, the king set up rooms all over the country asking for a son-in-law.
Thousands of young people from all over the country flocked to the day when the princess's groom was finally chosen.
The first tests were horseback riding and archery.
About 20 strong young men were selected for this examination.
The second test was the test of wisdom. The king had a problem.
"Get a tree that connects the high heavens and the earth, and connects neighbors to neighbors. I will give you 100 days."
Then 20 young people said, ''To connect heaven and earth, you must first be tall, and to connect neighbors with neighbors, you must also have long branches..''
Thinking about it, they went their separate ways.
Among them was a young man named John Ferro, who was orphaned in a convent.
Faroe, like other young men, tried to find the largest tree, but could not find it, so went into the convent church and prayed.
After praying for a long time to become a wise king and work for the poor and outcasts of the world, Farrow suddenly turned around with a thought.
Then the wooden cross caught my eye.
"Yes. That's a wooden cross!"
1. I will love my body
The Bible defines our duty to our neighbor as love.
That we should love our neighbor as ourselves, and this is the highest law that we must strive for.
Just as everyone cherishes and loves their own body, we, the members of our church, should have the same attitude toward our neighbors.
If they cherish, cherish, and love them, they are fulfilling their duty as saints, and amazing results can be expected.
Also, just as people adorn their bodies with beautiful things, so the saints should do this toward their neighbors.
When we cast away slander and slander and exalt and praise, smooth fellowship is achieved.
Love is like spring water, the more you scoop it out, the brighter and richer it gets, but if you don't, it becomes like stagnant water in a puddle, and it stinks.
Therefore, we must do our best to spread it diligently.
If we value our neighbors as ourselves, we cannot do evil or cause harm.
Yehwa-neighbor
In a village, there was a man who loaded his car and left the village and moved to somewhere else.
He took all his family and left for another town.
As he leaves the town, he says
"This town is not a place for people to live. All the people in this town are ignorant, poor,
They don't know etiquette, they are greedy, they only fight.
I have decided to leave this town.”
But at the same time that day, another person moved into the town with his family.
After all, the person who leaves the town with their luggage in the car buys the house the person used to live in and moves there.
He said:
“When I heard that the people in this town were poor, ignorant, ill, and had an unhappy life, I decided to move to this town to be their neighbor.
2. Be honest with yourself
Love is not a rhetoric on the lips.
Nor is it a touching piece of paper written in pencil.
It has a unique property that takes shape and is effective only when put into practice.
For the love in a scholar's head to be appreciated, it must be manifested in concrete forms to street vagrants and marginalized people in slums.
We often only love with our lips, and this is one of the biggest factors that make us cut off our communion with our neighbors.
Words are not needed.
What a robber and near-death abandoned man need is a practice of love, not a theory of love.
Therefore, the members should strive to broaden and solidify their fellowship with their neighbors through diligence and sincere love.
Saints must have smooth fellowship with their neighbors, and it must be manifested in the practice of love, and the specific contents are evangelism and physical relief, so we must diligently strive for it.