Title: Good Perseverance/Romans 15:20-21
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Perseverance for goodness/Romans 15:20-21
As an evangelist, Paul has a very special mindset and vision.
So his path was different from other people's.
But in our eyes that we see now, Paul looks too big and great.
It is because of the results of his ministry.
He did not work, hoping that he would be great.
He is not a person who sees the success of his ministry and works.
If he had thought of greatness or success, he might have wished to stay in Jerusalem for now, like the other apostles. But he had left Jerusalem from the beginning.
He was the only one who saw what was important.
Seeing his importance is what made him so great in history.
The era in which we live is called the 'age of globalization'.
Staying in this narrow Gwangju seems too shabby, and living in the narrow Korean peninsula seems hopeless.
However, globalization is only a demand of the times to broaden my eyes in the global village era, but it does not mean that I have to move my body to walk around the world and go to a wider place. In the age of global village, knowledge and information age, the most demanded thing is to increase the power of my region and my country. The dying local economy is something the government is very nervous about right now. Yesterday, I saw the president looking around the Daegu and Gyeongbuk regions, and it is the region that is currently the most collapsed in Korea. Do you know where the next one is? Gwangju.
These are the places with the highest bankruptcy rates right now.
Dear young talents here, don't just try to leave.
If the region lives, the country will live.
There is one of many factors that make the future of our country not very bright.
It is insufficient to foster basic science. There is little investment there.
I hope that a pastor with no professionalism understands why he has to bring up this story at the outset.
If you don't know what's important and you don't do your best at it, you have no future.
If you try to hold onto only what you can see, you have no glory and that is ruin.
There is the best in the big things and the best in the small things, but the fruit is different.
Some will reap the fruits of great works, but that is only for special people with extraordinary abilities and wisdom. A competent person must do the job. I heard someone say this.
"A wise person should take initiative and act. If an ignorant person has beliefs, both the family and me will perish."
The best in the little things matters. The fruits of the little things are important.
Because, just as a large product cannot be made without nurturing basic science, without small fruits, large fruits cannot appear.
Even if you make a car or a computer, you can't make a profit by importing it if you don't have a lot of the technology, as there are patents and royalties for each and every countless parts in it?
It's not necessarily a criticism, but I think we should talk about the wrong church in the future.
Paul walked the path of globalization of the gospel alone at a time when the gospel was centered in Jerusalem, so if there were Christians scattered throughout Rome, he would be able to work much more effectively. They moved from place to place and built churches there. It seems like a very glamorous ministry to us now, but it was just a matter of gathering a few church members to build a humble looking church and move it around. However, as the years passed, the church in Jerusalem disappeared, but the church he built spread throughout the world.
Why was Paul able to go a road that no one else had gone?
Of course, he didn't go that route by doing this on his own will.
Hearing the voice of the Lord through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, he walked the path of missionary to the Gentiles alone.
But thoughts, certain values, are the product of thought, the result of learning, and the knowledge that we accumulate. If he had not had the ability to have such values and thoughts, God would not have used Paul. He had a zeal for God more than anyone else.
I have learned a lot and have experienced many mistakes.
The story knowledge you hear may give you an idea, but it doesn't give you the strength to draw yourself. For knowledge to become my knowledge, it must be filtered through research and thought.
And you have to go through the process of making it mine again through experience and mistakes.
God used this prepared Paul.
In his special stubborn life, his weaknesses are also put to good use.
His greatest weakness is his non-apostolic nature.
That is, they are not pure disciples of Jesus.
Jesus raised and trained him as an apostle, but he was not a disciple trained by living with Jesus while he was alive, like the other disciples.
This was the content that imprisoned him for the rest of his ministry.
He also had thorns in the flesh.
He doesn't know what it is, but some disease that engulfs the body has not left him.
I believe weakness is a gift that exists to overcome.
Most people stumble in the snare of weakness.
But special people use that weakness as a springboard for leaps and bounds.
Without that weakness, it would be seen as a precious gift that would make him unthinkable.
Paul did.
He ran much harder than the other apostles to overcome his non-apostolicity.
The Lord raised him up as an apostle, but not publicly in the presence of the other disciples. He was the only one who could show that he was an apostle.
Those who are governed by fate will live by fate.
However, for those who believe in God the Creator, look forward to the future that will be achieved in His presence, and do their best, God will work all things together for good.
I hope that any weakness in the body, family background, academic background, etc., will be used as a basis for boasting in Christ, just like the confession of the apostle Paul.
He boasted about what God had done through his weaknesses, not himself.
In verses 17 and 18, we see that he is making the same confession.
?쏧 have boasted about the works of God in Christ Jesus.??
The words of this text suggest the basic direction and perspective of his lifelong evangelism ministry.
"The gospel is not preached where the name of Christ is called"
"Do not build on someone else's foundation"
This was his persistence and vision.
It is not wrong to preach the gospel where the name of Christ is called.
It is not a sin to build a church on someone else's foundation.
The thought that he did not want to go the road that everyone else had done, dominated Paul.
It wasn't even heroic.
The special work shown by the heroism is something that anyone with power can do.
Rather, it was the specialness of giving up and choosing the path that someone else should go, just as Abraham gave up the fertile land of Sodom and Gomorrah to his nephew Lot.
I believe that a Christian's vision should not be a visible achievement or outcome.
When I first started pioneering, I had that kind of vision.
Have a few members in a few years. How long will the chapel be built?
There were several goals for this year's celebration.
However, although such goals may stimulate and scourge themselves, they are prone to artificiality, and even if they are achieved, they become wary of their own glory and pride.
Paul's vision has no performance.
There is only the desire for the witness of the gospel.
God!
I want to go where others do not preach the gospel.
Let someone else do the church that is built on someone else's foundation, and let me do the work of building it only on a new foundation.
Oh God! Let me go to Rome and preach the gospel.
This is the concern we have for the lost sheep.
Even though Paul said he would not build the church on someone else's foundation, he did not reject the existing believers. Rather, they used such people as valuable workers.
We do not ignore or reject existing believers.
The only interest in building the church is to focus on the souls who have stopped living their life of faith and those who do not yet believe in Jesus Christ.
Last spring, we focused our attention on unbelievers.
This weekend we will be interested in those who have stopped living the faith.
I know it's not easy.
But this is something no one else does.
It's easy, so why not do it!
We should give greater glory to God through this ministry.
Please read and pray the prayers for a week and be persistent and pay attention to the invitation.
Please make sure to bring one out of two days.