Title: Happy Family (Acts 10:1-6)
The educator Pestalozzi said, “There are many joys in this world.
The brightest joy among them is the laughter of the family.”
There are many necessities in family life. I need money and I need furniture.
Appliances are also required. But they do not bring joy or laughter.
do.
In a certain neighborhood there were houses in front and back. One day, in the house next door, my mother-in-law
I put rice on the table and told the new daughter-in-law it's time to set fire. cook rice
The daughter-in-law, who had no experience, did not even know that the water in the rice cooker was overflowing, and was constantly simmering.
It was.
The rice in the pot was burnt and the smell vibrated, and the pot was cracked and broken. cowardice
Exhausted, the daughter-in-law sat on the ground and cried.
At that time, my mother-in-law said, "Son, I'm afraid that I poured too little water.
Don't decide," he comforted.
My father-in-law said, “It happened because I put too much wood in the kitchen.
I have a lot of responsibility,” he comforted.
The groom said, "I drew too little water, so it's my fault.
Don't lose it," he comforted.
The back house was a brewery house.
The mother-in-law put a lot of sake in the pot and told the new daughter-in-law it was time to light it.
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An inexperienced new-in-law started the fire without knowing that the pot was broken.
My mother-in-law comes running and swears at me.
"What the hell did you learn before you got married, I won't be able to handle even a hundred pots"
"Did I do that on purpose?"
Then my father-in-law said, "Where did you learn the burlesque hair, where did you tell your mother-in-law?
Do you hold up your hands and fight them?” The daughter-in-law said, “People cannot speak and live.
Do I have to?", the groom slaps him, "Where did you get the dog clap you used to eat?"
raised and sent. Then the daughter-in-law used evil and shouted, "Kill me."
The groom waved his hand and beat the bride.
Depending on how you interpret and deal with the same incident, peace can be achieved.
It can also be a chaos. In Acts 10, the gorilla is a sugar
He was an officer of the Roman legion dispatched to the city of Israel, the region of Caesarea.
I did.
The text explains that his family was a happy family.
Let's find out how you were happy and what the secret was.
1. He succeeded in family faith.
Verse 2 says, “If a man is devout, he fears God with all his house and gives much alms to the people.
He always prayed to God.”
He was reverent, his whole family feared God, gave alms to the people, and prayed all the time.
It means that the faith and the religious life of the family were thorough.
In other words, it was a family that had all the necessary conditions for a life of faith.
There is no explanation as to how he came to believe in Jesus.
But guesses are possible.
At that time, the Roman nobles and high-ranking officers who occupied the country of Israel knew Israeli virgins
There were many things that greeted me.
At that time, Rome was a center of politics, culture, transportation, education, and trade, but at the same time, it was also a center of sexual morality.
it wasn't That is why I chose Israeli virgins who were faithful and had faith as wives.
There were many things to choose from.
It was the same with Ben-Hur. Cornelius also married an Israeli virgin for that reason.
It can be seen that his faith was activated while he came to the Jewish delegation.
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Anyway, he was a successful person in the family faith.
To be reverent is to keep what you want to keep and quit what you want to cut off. and what to take
To take and to give up means to give up.
There are many things around us that are not beneficial to a godly life. For example, alcohol,
These are boats, gambling, drugs, and excessive entertainment.
In order to maintain a godly life, we must give up and cut off things that are not useful and unnecessary
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What we should note is that he served God with all his household, gave alms and prayed.
is.
As far as I know, there was a family. Father-in-law is atheist, mother-in-law is a Buddhist, husband is
Catholic, his wife is Christian, his eldest daughter is Jehovah's Witness, and his son is Adventist.
If only religion is talked about, the house becomes a soybean flour family. So, the family is religious.
is freedom and does not even talk about religion.
What happiness is in that family?
A family is the story of the Holy Bible, where members of the same family sit around and share the grace they received that day with each other.
You must have the joy of testifying.
Among our members, there is a young couple living with an 80-year-old grandmother.
The mother has been deeply immersed in Buddhism all her life. The whole house is a talisman and Buddhist
It was full of things, and I went to the temple regularly to give offerings, and the names of my family members were also faked.
Lee Temple was on the brink of fire.
However, the daughter-in-law who was married believed in Jesus and was born again. And my six-year-old grandson repeats
It happened. After that, my son began to believe in Jesus.
The son and daughter-in-law did their best to be filial to their mother. And the home atmosphere
This revelation has been made into a home.
One day something dramatic happened.
The mother called her son and daughter-in-law and said, "You all believe in Jesus, but you have to be of the same religion.
I can't follow the church, but I have to change my religion."
Then he called the temple directly and said, "Because my son believes in Jesus, I don't go up to the temple anymore.
I can't go, so I hope you will take our family out of the fire."
That's right. This is what makes and protects the happiness of the family.
"Faith is freedom. Do whatever you want." This is not something a Christian would say.
If you don't believe, you will die and go to hell
Can you do it?
It is the greatest happiness on earth for the whole family to fear God, go to church together, and pray together.
is. Let's save the family and restore the family faith.
2. We waited for grace together.
Verse 24 says, “The next day, when he entered Caesarea, Cornelius gathered his family and close friends
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In verse 3 and below, Cornelius saw the angel in a vision to invite Peter, who was staying in Joppa.
Upon receiving the revelation, he immediately sent someone to bring Peter.
And the next day, when Peter arrived at his house, he fell at his feet and bowed down to meet him.
(Verse 25) It was a courtesy to a superior or an emperor.
This is that he did not see Peter as a Galilean fisherman, but as a servant of God.
They saw him as a servant of God who was sent by God and visited his house.
He was sent by God and received as a servant of God to visit his house.
This is what made him receive grace.
More importantly, inform your family and friends of Peter's visit in advance and wait for them together.
that it was.
From Cornelius's point of view, Peter is nothing more than a fisherman on the insignificant Sea of Galilee.
Cornelius is an occupying force officer and Peter is an occupied villager.
Cornelius is a high-ranking officer who graduated from the Military Academy, and Peter is a commoner who did not even go to elementary school.
Cornelius was living in an officer's office, and Peter was a wanderer.
What was the reason for him to kneel down to Peter, and why should he wait?
how?
But he waited together.
Grace becomes bulky when the family is together.
If only the wife receives the grace and the family tears it apart, the volume becomes smaller.
People who have received grace can communicate and understand each other, but the person who has received grace does not receive grace.
Those who don't are often an alumni answer.
We must wait together and receive grace together.
It happened when I visited church members' families twice in spring and autumn.
My wife and brother and sister were leaving the church, but there was a house where the husband did not come.
He is a husband who helps and even takes care of a cup of coffee, but he must leave before the pastor arrives.
It was the person who went into the bedroom and did not come out.
Knowing that she had come, the husband quickly opened the door and tried to escape when he ran into me.
"Nice to meet you. I'm sorry I arrived a little early. Where are you going?"
"Yeah, I've got to see you for a minute."
"I'm sorry. Let's talk with me for a second. Let's have a cup of tea with me."
He took his hand and went into the house to worship and evangelize, and now he is the 000 deacon of our church.
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If it were, it would have been late to believe in Jesus." They laugh at each other.
The whole family should wait for the Lord together, wait for grace, and wait for blessings.
I wish you the best of luck.
3. We received the Holy Spirit together.
Verse 44 says, “As Peter was speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.”
And in verse 45, it says, “I was amazed at the outpouring of the Holy Spirit even on the Gentiles.”
It is said, "Speaking in tongues and exalting God."
And in verse 47, everyone who gathered there received the Holy Spirit and was baptized.
It was an amazing miracle.
When Peter delivered the cross of Jesus and the blood in you to the people who had gathered there, and
They received the Holy Spirit when they preached the gospel that Jesus was the Savior and God.
And tongues came.
Until then, Peter and Jewish Christians had received the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues was Jewish Christianity.
I believed that only humans could do it.
But I couldn't help but be amazed to see the Gentile Cornelius and his family received the Holy Spirit.
All.
You must also receive spiritual experiences and gifts.
Because it is easy to blame, deny, or attack when done wrong.
But more importantly, the family will be happy only when they receive the Holy Spirit together.
When you are filled with the Holy Spirit, the results are revealed as the 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit in Galatians 5:22.
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They are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
When the whole family is filled with the Holy Spirit, hatred, envy, and jealousy will disappear.
Lost love is restored and lost joy is restored.
Hatred, conflict, and strife turn into peace, and impatience and ferocity turn into patience and reconciliation.
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So, even if you do not explain the results of the 9 fruits in detail, if you are filled with the Holy Spirit, your husband will
This changes, the wife changes, the parents change, the children change.
It is the work of the evil spirit to change for the bad, and the work of the Holy Spirit to change for the good.
According to Genesis 1:27-28, the family was created by God in the beginning.
It is a community where only the family eats, sleeps, and lives together. But no matter how one family
However, because people with different personalities, hobbies, personalities, and appearances gather and live together, they change from moment to moment.
problem arises with
How can happiness reside in that family?
The principle is simple and clear.
The whole family should serve God together.
The whole family should receive grace together.
The whole family must receive the Holy Spirit together.
I pray that your family and family will receive grace through one faith and be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Amen.