Title: Good Saints
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“When they heard these words, they were pierced in their hearts and gnashed their teeth at him; and Stephen, filled with the Holy Spirit,
Looked up to heaven and looked up and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, saying,
Behold, the heavens are opened, and I see the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.
They covered their ears and rushed to him with all their heart, threw him out of the city and stoned him.
They put it at the feet of a young man named Wool, and they stoned Stephen, and Stephen cried out and said,
Lord Jesus, receive my soul, and he knelt down on his knees and called out aloud, saying, Lord, take this sin against them.
Do not turn it to me. Having said this, I fell asleep” (Acts 7:54-60).
A saint is clearly distinguished from a church member. Because saints are saints and church members are members. saint is yes
A person who truly repents and is saved by believing in Jesus' gospel of salvation.
“In the end of faith, even the salvation of souls” (1 Peter 1:9).
“Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household” (Acts 16:31).
A believer is a person who has become a child of God by believing in the name of Jesus.
“To all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God” (John 1:12).
A believer is a person who has received eternal life through faith in Jesus.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him will not perish
that he might have eternal life” (John 3:16).
A believer is a person who has been born again through the word, that is, a person who has been born twice.
“For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of immortal seed, the flesh of God
It was a omnipresent and ever-present word” (1 Peter 1:23).
A believer is a person who has been justified by the forgiveness of sins by the grace of God.
“Justified freely by the grace of God through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus.
have come to sleep” (Romans 3:24).
A believer is a person who has the Holy Spirit in his heart through faith.
“I tell you this only, did you receive the Holy Spirit by works of the law?
By faith?" (Galatians 3:2)
“Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”
Ecclesiastes 3:16)
“If the Spirit of God dwells in you, then you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit.
If you do not have the Spirit of Christ, you are not of Christ” (Romans 8:9).
A saint is a chosen one, a priest, a citizen of a holy nation, and a people of God.
“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession.
For the good of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light
You were once not a people, but now you are God's people,
He found no mercy, but now he has found mercy” (1 Peter 2:9-10).
A believer is simply a religious person who goes to church, attends services, listens to sermons, gets baptized, and makes offerings.
I am not a high school student, receiving an office, or a church member. These are not saints, they are just religious people.
is. In the grace of the Holy Spirit, the saints must sleep on the right truth for the Lord's church and the Northeum truth.
A person who dedicates himself to God, sacrifices himself, and faithfully takes up his cross and serves the Lord.
There are "bad members" in the church, but there are also "good saints". In fact, the church is the mother of good saints.
Lim is a church, but in terms of expression, I would like to say that I came to use the term within the church.
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I would like to introduce a realistic example of the good saints.
Example 1.
This saint had been receiving Jesus as his Savior for less than a year.
He had been faithfully attending church services and Bible studies to strengthen his faith.
This saint was not in very good condition, but he was happy and thankful, serving his two young children and her husband well.
He lived a life of faith.
But a test came upon this family. And his husband began to neglect his wife and his knowledge.
You ended up having an impure relationship with another woman. This saint who confirmed this fact
was tormented He couldn't do anything on his own, so he couldn't do this shameful thing that hurts his self-esteem.
He consulted a pastor who was teaching the Bible to God and asked him to pray for himself and his family.
How many months had passed since then? The husband more severely neglected his home and his wife.
Then he finally started living with another woman. The situation had become very serious.
This saint somehow found out the house where the husband and the other woman lived together. and this house
visited When I visited, the sun had already risen in the middle of the sky, but the two were still in bed. Sane
Seeing the two of them like that, the husband and the young woman looked very pitiful. This saint
I asked if he had eaten. My husband said he hasn't done it yet. This saint went to a nearby restaurant
We served two people by ordering a meal, and after the meal, we also ordered coffee and served it. then sleep
I asked the woman who was living with her husband how he was deceived by such a man.
and talked for a long time. Of course, Jesus did too. Tears flowed from his eyes. on the spot
Standing, the young woman admits her mistake and tells the man why you are single to me.
You have made me this way, and if you forsake a good wife like this, you and I will both be cursed.
After saying that, I packed up and left.
Seongdo Lee forgave her husband who had committed a great sin against her. and led her husband to Jesus
All. God's blessing of peace came to Lee Sung-do's family.
Example 2.
This woman was a female deacon of a church. I was born into a difficult family and did not do well in school. character
He met a man who was in a difficult situation like a god, married him, and had three children.
My children are still young, but my husband is into gambling. Indeed, the family was as difficult as it was difficult. no matter how
I complained to my husband, but he did not give up on gambling.
Every time there is a local service of the members, this member puts up this shameful problem in his family and prays.
asked He prayed himself, and the members of the district prayed together. I prayed with tears.
Her husband was causing pain to this saint, but Lee Seong-do treated this humble husband with love.
did. Eventually, the husband returned to Jesus. After that, she and her husband became a member of the church as an administrative deacon.
served the fields and the Lord. He always did those difficult things with a happy face, with a pure and grateful heart.
He showed a quiet impression and the true character of the saints to many people.
Example 3. This man served the Lord as an elder in a church. Small business that is not so big
He served the Lord's Church with money and time while spiritually.
One day, a great misfortune struck Elder Lee. The company was all burned down in a fire, leaving only ashes.
All. This elder is sitting on a pile of debt.
It was indeed a difficult ordeal. It was completely ruined. But more difficult than this is
It was the attitude and gossip of the company people.
"Isn't that the curse of God because that elder had some great hidden sin?"
It was a buzz. Until yesterday, church people who treated themselves kindly as elders and elders
Rather than comfort, it was rather painful.
In the midst of this, Elder Lee continued to live a faith life in that church without being shaken in the slightest.
He served God, and he came to church every morning and prayed to God with tears. do many years
I did it like Lou. And he worked hard to revive the business.
God helped him. Bringing Him back by the grace of God to a firmer business than ever before.
was built
He was born on June 3, 1902 in Haman-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do, as the eldest son of his father, Son Jong-il, and his mother, Kim Eun-su.
At the age of 7, he came to believe in Jesus through the evangelism of his father.
In 1915, at the age of 13, when he was in the 3rd year of a normal school, he was expelled from school for refusing to attend the Japanese palace service, but was a missionary.
He returned to school in protest and graduated.
At the age of 17, he was in high school at Seoul Middle School, but his father was imprisoned in Masan Prison for the March 1st Movement and dropped out
However, after graduating from the current high school, he entered and graduated from Kyungnam Bible Academy.
He pioneered Ulsan Baengbangjin Church, Namchang Church, Miryangsusan Church, Yangsan Wondong Church, etc., and then opened Pyongyang Theological Seminary.
After graduating from school, at the age of 36, he took charge of the Leprosy Church in Jeonnam Jesuit Nursing Home and took care of lepers.
After the Wednesday service on September 25, 1940, he was arrested by the Yeosu Police Station and imprisoned in Gwangju Prison and Cheongju Detention Center.
He was released from prison on August 17, 1945, the second day after liberation. During the Yeosu Uprising on October 21, 1948
His two sons, Dongin and Dongshin, were murdered by a Communist Party member. The wrist man himself
On September 28, 1950, he was shot and martyred by the Communist Red Army in North Korea. It was the year he was 48 years old.
Forgive the man who murdered his two sons, Dongin and Dongshin, and rescue him from execution.
This was a sacred ministry to imitate.
His representative sermon was "The end of all things is at hand" (1 Peter 4:7-11).
As the text and title of this sermon show, his faith was an eschatological faith.
His father, Choi Eung-seon, was strict with Confucianism and taught strict Confucian education from his parents since he was young.
you received He moved to Saechobong, Russia at the age of 12 and graduated from a Russian school at the age of 18. in school life
He was a model student, and he was the object of envy as a person who showed the excellence of Koreans.
He got a job at a Russian trading company and became very wealthy in the "Sea Three Wei", a large city with a population of 3 million, but after that
I have been living a life of debauchery.
One day, in March 1908, when he turned 28, he believed in Jesus through the evangelism of an American missionary.
He developed his faith by studying the Bible with the Old Soviet Bible.
Since then, he has been evangelizing with zeal, and his zeal is great. But his father was his son.
They treated them as psychopaths and subjected them to great persecution. However, this one of his fathers was evangelized.
When the father saw his son's life changed, he believed in Jesus and started evangelism with his father.
He planted the Church of the Lord in Namha, Busan, Daejeon, Jeomchon, and Gangneung.
It was a house that had no single fence or gate, and entered and exited the room through the kitchen. but the pastor
Nim and wife were always at peace, always kind, leading the old woman and speaking from the pulpit.
When preaching, he boldly testified only the pure truth.
There was no compromise, only the Word and the soul knew. Let's preach the gospel in the midst of extreme poverty
One day when it rains a lot, in the corner of the church yard, in a house that looks like a cabin,