Title: God's Basic Good Will (John 10:10)
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When do you think people will be most upset? That is when goodwill is distorted and goodwill is badly accepted and evaluated. If the intention was to do something bad from the start, it would be right to receive a cold judgment and criticism. However, under no circumstances should the basic goodwill be distorted or misjudged. Because there is nothing that makes people lose their motivation like that.
It is said that the most disappointing thing about the various problems that occurred after President Kim Dae-jung left office was that the "North Korea project" was distorted. This is because there are people who distort the North Korean project under special prosecution, criticize it for spreading it, and even call it a redneck. How sad would it be to be treated like that for what you have dedicated your life to doing? People are most upset when good intentions are distorted.
So is God.
God is not a God who thinks deeply, “How can I make the lives of the people I have chosen miserable?” Even if there are bad fathers in the world, even evil fathers try to give good things only to their children. But Heavenly Father, Heavenly Father, How can God not give us good things? Jesus said so. God is a God who cares and thinks about how to make his chosen people, God's children, lead a better, better, and more abundant life. He is a God who wants to make his chosen people prosper even by sacrificing his only begotten Son.
This is an issue that should not even be questioned. The truth is that God is a God who wants to make his chosen people prosper. Our Lord Jesus Christ, who forsaken the heavenly throne and who is the Spirit, came to this world in the flesh, spoke directly.
Today's text John 10:10 says, "The thief came only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they might have life and have it more abundantly."
A thief is only from the beginning to steal, kill, and destroy. The evil devil and Satan are their mission to alienate, to fight, to separate, to lie, to deceive, and to destroy. But God only wants the sheep to have life and have it more abundantly.
I hope you believe in the God who gives life and makes it more abundant and prosperous. In any case, I believe in a God who has this basic goodwill. What you do not understand now, you will gradually learn. What you do not realize now, you will gradually realize. Therefore, we must obey even if we do not understand right now, and we must believe and obey God's basic goodwill even if there is no benefit or damage. If you watch it, you will know. This is because God has done us with basic good will.
Romans 8:28 says, “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to his purpose.”
People say it's not good as a punishment when other people are better than you, but it's strange. There are some things that make me feel better when I see a believer who has better faith than me. It really is.
It is to build up each member of the saints on my shoulders and build them up to be more trustworthy than me. To do that, we pray and preach. And I do my best to teach you a loving lesson. They even force you to pay the price in order to enjoy a blessed life.
But I cannot go into the hearts of the saints and change your values. It is the work of the Holy Spirit, and it is a matter for you to decide for yourself. There is little I can do if you don't look at problems from God's perspective, give your life to the Lord Jesus, or pay the price you need to grow as a worker for Christ. If you close your heart, what you can't do from the outside is the human spirit. Even Jesus is knocking outside the door of the person's heart.
A few days ago, my sister and brother went to school in a flood and on the way home, my sister stumbled and fell into a creek. Then the younger brother jumped in to catch the older sister and died together. Even these little ones risked their lives to save their brother. This is normal.
It's not normal if you're just looking at a child crawling into the water or clapping for a good crawling. It is not right to enjoy watching a little child crawling towards a fire, and to stimulate it further to go towards the fire. It's not something you do as a person. Nevertheless, the child cries that he has blocked the path and insists on going on that path. Because you are still young. It is because he is a young child who has not yet been able to divide the sari.
God's words and laws are not given by God to torment us, but to make us happy and lead a successful life. It was given to protect us from many difficulties. If you are a child of God and want to live your life of faith well, you must understand this concept well. Without understanding this concept, you cannot lead a positive and healthy life of faith.
There is no cost to being a Christian. “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God. Not of works, so that no one can boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9). . This is to lay the foundation for building the watchtower. But trying to go one step further from there comes at a cost. What happens when you build a watchtower when you lay the foundation and no further progress is being made? It cannot do its job as a watchtower. A watchtower must be built high on the foundation to play the role of a watchtower.
Would Jesus say that being mere saints or Christians is enough? Is that why he chose us from among Manmin? It's not like that. The Lord wants us to grow from saints and Christians to his faithful disciples and unconstrained soldiers of the Lord. Amen?
However, becoming a loyal disciple or a soldier who is not bound by private life is a fact that must be paid for. If you are only afraid of paying the price, you have no choice but to stay as a saint or a Christian.
There are many Christians in the church. However, it is difficult to find disciples of Christ and to really meet the soldiers of Christ.
Veracruz, a coastal city on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in the Atlantic Ocean, occupies a very important historical position. In 1519, General Cortez, who led a Spanish expedition, began the conquest of Mexico. If you go to the port, historical monuments of that time remain. When General Cortez landed in Veracruz, Mexico with 700 men on 11 ships with the dream of conquering Mexico, he set fire to 11 ships in front of his men. The 700 men thought as they watched the ship, the only way they could withdraw, burned down and sunk deep into the Mexican coast. "Now for us, the only way to survive is the conquest of Mexico, and if that fails, there will be no way to sustain life." So wherever he went, he went into battle desperately without taking care of his life. The result was a great victory in conquest of the interior of Mexico.
When paying the price to be a disciple of Christ. We too must cut off our way back. When you leave the church, you must cut off the road to return to the world again.
Among animals, wolves are known for their cruelty. It is said that once you set an attack target, you never give up. What you put in your mouth is sprinkled with teeth and never released. Even for such a wolf, the success rate of hunting is said to be about 1 in 20. If you go hunting 20 times a day, you will succeed about once and fail nineteen times. Still, the wolf is constantly on the hunt. Be a successful wolf. If it works, it's good, if it doesn't, it's not right. Such a life of faith is not right. We must have a spiritual wolf spirit.