Title: Grace and Truth!
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Sunday day sermon
Text: John 1:1-18
Title: Grace and Truth!
When we are in a great predicament that we cannot get out of, when we receive unspeakable help from someone, or when we are lost in heart and wandering, we use the expression grace as a way of saying thank you. Therefore, people in the world express it as grace when someone gives them great benefits or soothes their gloomy heart.
However, it seems that the church today is the place where this kind of grace is abused the most. Today's Christians use the word "grace" indiscriminately when they open their mouths. It is because Christ died in the place of what he had to die for because of sin. However, even though they say that they have received such great grace, looking at their lives, it seems that they are far from the grace of Christ. Because there is no deed of Christ, and every day, only the mouth is crying out for love and grace.
After hearing her words, the pastor referred to the female deacon and comforted her with very plausible words by quoting the Bible. Then, how sweet the pastor comforted her, she quickly returned home with a smile on her face. Did she really receive grace from the pastor's words? Or was he just playing around with the pastor's pun to comfort his sad situation for a moment? In all likelihood, she was playing with the pastor's pun. The pastor must have comforted her in a worldly way. That's why she easily listened to the pastor and said that he liked it.
The grace that the Lord speaks of in the Bible is incomparable to such trivial things.
As mentioned briefly above, grace in the Bible is never referred to as grace. Of course, if it is grace that the wives received, it could be grace. However, it is only the grace received to soothe the gloomy heart of the flesh, not the grace received from the Lord in order to truly go to life. The true grace from the Lord is that a sinner can feel true grace only when he knows that I have died because of my sins and meets the Lord after a lot of work.
And those who have received the grace of the Lord must live their lives like those who have received grace. When he says he has received grace, but does not live like a person who has received grace, the grace he has received eventually becomes a lie. Even a silent beast dies with allegiance to the owner who took good care of it. But how should a human being, the lord of all things, live if he received grace from the Lord? Does it mean that living according to one's own will is the life of the one who has received grace like today's Christians? This is absolutely not the life of the one who received grace.
And believers use the word truth indiscriminately, and this word is too far-fetched when it comes to the life of Christians today. The truth must not change under any circumstances. The book of James writes that God is without a rotating shadow. Even in the face of those who drove him to death, the Lord did not deny that he was the Son of God to the end. In addition, the truth must be fulfilled and fulfilled in the words one has uttered.
All the words of the Lord have been fulfilled so far. However, when you see that nothing has been done properly in the words of Christians who cry out for the truth, you can never find the truth among Christians. Not only this. Christians change their minds to the tides. If it is a little disadvantageous to him, he often makes excuses for saying this and that one, and in order to earn his own profit, he is selling even the pride of the Lord without price. How can we say that these people are believers in Jesus and are arguing the truth? Judging from this Christian life, we come to realize once again that grace and truth can never be solved except through Christ.