Title: Functions of the Church 4
Contents
Functions of the Church IV
Text: Ephesians 1:23
Key Verse: All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness (2 Timothy 3:16).
We are now living in a world fiercely to survive in a cold and harsh world.
Until the 1990s, a Japanese company called Sony was blocking the global home appliance industry like an impregnable fortress.
In order to overcome Japan's Sony, which is difficult to overcome, Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee left a famous saying.
“Change everything except your wife and children.”
In order to survive in the harsh reality of survival competition, it is necessary to calmly recognize, analyze, and take control of the environment without being dominated by it.
The world we live in is like a wilderness, a wasteland, and a rough sea.
A wasteland with nothing equipped!
A wilderness where no one can be by my side!
And
Like a wave that constantly rushes in, a helpless existence like a sailboat floating alone on an expansive sea of difficulties and hardships!
That this is our life.
A traveler living on this wasteland with his back bent as he plucks grass, clears the land, and picks out stones!
that's life,
We must still live in the wilderness where there is no one and nothing. still have to live A traveler walking the path of life while struggling!
that's life,
And in order not to be swept away by the rough waves and sink, the slender struggles of rowing and rowing until your hands bleed!
That's life.
A genealogy is a record of the traces of people who have lived through such a fierce life and such desperate struggles.
Everyone!
Have you ever looked closely at genealogy?
Genealogy has three things in common.
'I am born, I am born and I die'
that this is life
In the end, sum up your life in three words.
It is ‘born, begotten, and die’.
“I was born into this world with hope, and I lived and died in a harsh world.”
This is the story of life.
Dear saints,
Have you ever questioned this genealogy?
Why?
People are happy, hopeful, and thrilled when they are born.
Life is more sad than happy, and there is more time to worry and worry than to live in hope.
Do I have to give up when I die, sadder, utter despair, and now that it's all over?
'I am born, I am born and I die'
This is life!
Most people don't make any sense here.
I just accept that this is life and just give up and live.
Isn't it too unfair to live a life like this?
No, if you have no choice but to live like that, shouldn't you know why?
Why?
Why,
Do people have no resistance to the knowledge that this is life, accept it and live with resignation?
And is that true?
Before I get to this question, I'd like to ask you a few questions first.
first. Have any of you ever been born into this world after being born?
second. Do any of you know what will happen tomorrow?
third. Are any of you afraid of death after at least one of you has died?
Probably not even one.
However, the important thing is that people learn life by ‘experience’.
You may be questioning this statement.
Don't you learn from books and also from people's words?
However, in the end, the book is also a record of the author's 'experience'.
Aren't the words that people say the 'experience' of that person?
]Therefore, whether through indirect experiences through books, accepting that person's experience as my own through the advice of others, or directly experiencing it, people understand the world through 'experience', know themselves, You will know life.
A genealogy is a record of the personal life history of these people.
However, looking at the genealogy of the lives of so many people, it is said that it ends with ‘birth, birth and death.
From the moment I was born, I heard this experience from my parents, my seniors, I learned at school, I saw it with my own eyes, and I experienced it myself.
“Be born, give birth, and die” without any meaning or resistance to the knowledge that this is life, accept it, and live and die with resignation.
Then, if this is really what life is,
If so, shouldn't you know why?
Why are people forced to accept that this is life?
Because people learn life through experience.
Because everything you see, hear, and experience cannot escape from ‘birth, birth, and death’.
“I have no choice but to live and die like that.” I got to accept it.
So, is this true?
Is this true, ‘there is no choice but to be born, to have children and to die’?
The answer to this question can be found in Genesis 5 of the Bible.
Genesis 5 records the genealogy of Adam.
‘Adam’ is a name meaning ‘man’.
A total of 10 names are recorded in this genealogy. Since there were only 10 descendants of Adam, it was not only recorded 10 people. It is meaningful to record only the names of 10 people.
Isn't the number used by Koreans also meaningful?
4 doesn't like it. To say 'death to die', the 4th floor does not use 4 characters, but the 5th floor or F floor
Whatever you do, do it three times.
For Israelis, numbers also have meaning. 6 is the number of humans, 7 is the number of God, and 10 is the number. It means 'everything'.
So, writing the names of 10 people in the genealogy of ‘Adam’ means ‘the genealogy of all people’.
Like other genealogies, this genealogy goes through ‘birth, birth, and death’.
Then, when it comes to a person named ‘Enoch’, they are like other people until ‘birth and birth’, but after that, they are different. It is written as ‘born, born, and lived’.
If I tell you the Bible
Others said, “He died at the age of 969.” It's like this
Enoch was “365 years old, and Enoch walked with God, and he was not in the world, because God took him” (Genesis 5:23,24).
what do you mean?
I used to think that life is just ‘birth, birth and death’, but there is also ‘birth, birth and life’.
This is where people don't understand and have doubts.
How can a person live without dying? will do.
You have to die to know how to know that there is a heaven and a hell without even dying.
You don't know because you haven't experienced death.
So, is this idea true?
To answer this question, I will ask you once again the same question I asked you a moment ago.
first. Have any of you ever been born into this world after being born?
second. Do any of you know what will happen tomorrow?
third. Are any of you afraid of death after at least one of you has died?
There won't be a single one.
No one is born after having experienced birth, no one has lived and experienced life once, and no one has lived life after experiencing death, and no one dies after experiencing death.
Then, the idea that you have to die to know whether there is a heaven or a hell is wrong.
Still, people try to learn life from experience.
What these lives have in common is 'birth, birth, and death'.
'Death' This is the barrier against which all life is blocked.
People die, accepting and fearing this death as an insurmountable, insurmountable fortress.
But this is not true.
You are just being deceived.
So, how can we overcome and overcome the barrier of death?
It must change knowledge.
No matter how good the worldly knowledge is, it ends in death.
Even if a doctor dies, it's over. No matter how good a skill is, it's over when you die.
Everything in the world is ‘under death’, which ends with death.
With only such knowledge, people have no choice but to understand life as 'birth, birth, and death'.
The school that teaches that knowledge is the church.
The church has a school function.
The church is a school that teaches eternal life.
The textbook that teaches eternal life is the Bible.