Title: Guard Your Heart (Matthew 5:27-32)
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Guard your heart (Matthew 5:27-32)
About 10 years ago, I was shocked to see an innocent brother trying to commit suicide by taking pesticides. I couldn't help but be more surprised because he was a faithful brother who never harmed anyone. However, because of that, I could see the serious sin inside that I had no choice but to kill myself after meeting and consulting for hours on several occasions.
A sin that is recognized in the world is exposed as an act and only takes issue with the consequences of causing some harm. But the problem is the mind.
We need the "interesting method," which has become a buzzword due to popular dramas these days.
It is very important to find out and treat the thoughts and sins in the heart that cannot be expressed because modern people have strong habits and powers that have separate minds and actions.
The law limits and controls only actions.
But the gospel digs deep into the heart, pierces and reveals.
Legal faith adorns itself only with form or custom. However, evangelical faith enables us to have a heart and know how to stand before God and stand before people.
Sometimes our mind is like a room that has been swept and untidy, and other times it is messy and cluttered that needs cleaning.
I am well aware of this state of mind, but I am easily exposed to others.
Even if it is exposed, others do not know what kind of fundamental heart it is. Health, relationships, desire, material things...
You will only know if you tell them.
With an organized mind, no one can knock you down.
Satan does not move even if he uses any means.
God knows exactly this state of my heart. Satan knows it well.
But that I am in grace,
To prevent Satan from freely touching my mental state and weakness, which people are well aware of
That God protects you.
When you have these weaknesses, there is no person in this world who will not touch them and fall.
Look into your heart!
Are your hearts that are temples of the Holy Spirit really clean?
This topic of 'adultery' is a very sensitive and cautious subject.
I can assume there are several rooms in my mind.
The chamber of humility and pride, the chamber of greed, the chamber of character, the chamber of honor and fulfillment, the chamber of adultery...
To have a clean mind, all rooms must be in good order. If any one of them is disturbed, the whole mind is confused by that one.
This is also a principle spoken of in the law.
Holiness is not subject to any single law.
Even if you keep everything, if you fail to keep one small thing, you will stumble and fall.
That's what our minds are.
All other rooms must be clean and tidy, but if even one room is disturbed, the whole mind becomes dirty.
But why is the problem of adultery so special?
It is sensitive to change.
All other dispositions and desires are, to some extent, governed by personality, so it is not shocking.
However, the desire for adultery is that it has the characteristic of being too easily destroyed with just one eye, ear and skin contact.
There is another characteristic.
It means that there is not much difference between the outward behavior and the thoughts held in the heart in defiling the heart.
It's something you have in your heart and it's not revealed to others, so it's not that it's okay.
Therefore, the sin of adultery is distinct from other sins.
The Bible points out that adultery is sinning against oneself, whereas all other sins are sinning against others.
It can be said that it is a room of the heart that is difficult to protect and protect for younger people than older people, and men rather than women.
"Everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart," says the Lord.
Faith is an effort to guard the heart.
If you lose your heart, you become a sinner, and if you keep your heart, you are recognized as a righteous person.
“Guard your heart above all else, for it is the wellspring of life” (Proverbs 4:23).
The body is what we need to live in this world. Those functions are diverse, so it is difficult to have any one of them or it is inconvenient. The members of our body were created so that even one little finger was essential to life. You don't know how mysterious it is.
Even if you have two eyes and two ears, you need both, ten fingers and ten toes.
If you lose one eye, you will not have a good sense of distance and high and low.
Losing one ear makes it difficult to hear beautiful harmonies. I hear mono, but stereo
I can't hear it.
But all of these are essential tools to live in this world.
You go to heaven, and you don't need this body to get to heaven.
The only thing necessary to get to heaven is the mind, which is an invisible body.
If the heaven of the heart is not achieved first, the heaven of the next world cannot be attained.
“The kingdom of heaven is not here or there, it is in your heart.”
Because it is to gain heaven with the heart, the heaven of the heart is achieved first.
As we admit, the most dreadful disease of any disease or disease is the disease of the mind.
When the mind is broken, a healthy body is meaningless.
But if you have a healthy mind, even if you lose half of your body, you are more proud than those who have everything in your body
I live.
Not long ago, the well-known adopted child King Adams
Such is the case with young people like Odotake in Japan.
There is something I sympathized with after seeing Adams and reading the article written by Representative Hong Sa-deok.
In the past, he said he felt shame when he saw adopted children.
It is a sin for the country to not be able to handle the abandoned children on its own and to export them to other countries.
that it was felt. However, seeing Edems-kun changed his mind.
What would it be like if that child had lived in this country?
It's not that it's important to have a healthy body, but the touch and environment that can make the mind into heaven is more important.
Heaven is acquired with the heart.
Neither the ability of knowledge, nor the difference in talents, nor the perfection of health or the body, have anything to do with attaining heaven.
It is fair without any difference.
We have to admit it. You should be able to value a whole heart more than a whole body.
A crooked personality, a considerate heart, and even a visible habit determine whether we can serve God rightly or not.
Even if I do not plant God and heaven in that heart, the Lord will
Decorating the rooms of the heart so that they can live is a role that parents or siblings can fulfill.
The importance of home is here.
Remember why Jesus makes these shocking words in verse 29 today.
“If your right hand causes you to stumble, take it out.
If your right eye causes you to stumble, take it out."
The core of what the Lord is saying is in "heaven".
The various members in the body are nothing compared to the value of heaven.
If one member of the body can hold the key to heaven by being damaged and lost, it cannot be given up.
that there is not.
These words were never given for literal interpretation.
if so
Even my body won't have much left over.
Even if one member disappears, it is not hindered from going before God.
Please remember that if the soul is destroyed because of one physical sin, it will be hell.
'Guarding the mind and valuing the body'
Where do you prioritize?
Guarding the heart is never abusing the body.
However, if you focus on physical work and put faith and keeping your heart behind, you will surely see serious side effects and consequences.
Notice that these words are given in connection with adultery.
This sin, which can easily destroy anyone, regardless of personality, status or academic background, is difficult to protect without a fight to protect the heart.
The law that governs the body does not deal with the body. When the soul is strong, the body is governed.
If you dwell in the forest of the Word and praise and maintain the spirituality of prayer,
Just as there was a time in the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve did not see the tree of knowledge in the center of the garden, their hearts will be protected.
The laws of the world follow the flow of the society and culture of the time.
At the time of Jesus, there was an atmosphere in which the marriage relationship was easily broken with a single certificate of divorce.
In the case of Korea, it was not easy to get a divorce in the past. But now it's easy.
Behind a culture of easy divorce lies an open sex culture.
There is a great sin of adultery here.
Isn't that what our time is now?
Although divorce and remarriage are not necessarily due to adultery, it is the environment created by the culture of adultery that makes it easier to meet and break up.
What a grievous and shameful thing
The fact is that there is no difference between the divorce rate of the society as a whole and the divorce rate of Christians.
In faith governed by the laws of the world and governed by the laws,
Even if the gospel is shouted
It is as if the true gospel does not exist.
Only in the life that the heart of Jesus Christ is planted and lives in that heart is the gospel
live and history.
We must build that community and that nation.