Title: Have This Mind/Phil 2:5-11
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Have this mind / Philippians 2:5-11
A kindergarten teacher at a church impressed the children with a sermon about giving their hearts to Jesus. A child who listened to the sermon while concentrating on it came home, took out a scale, and weighed it. The mother, who was curious, asked why the child was weighing, and the child said, 'I gave my heart to Jesus, but the weight has not decreased.' So the mother explained to the child. Still, the child still didn't understand. Your biggest problem is misunderstanding and prejudice. This child is misunderstood. That misunderstanding is ingrained in the mind as a prejudice. Misunderstandings need to be cleared up. If misunderstandings persist for a long time, it will become a mass of prejudice, and no matter what you say, you will not be immediately heard. That is why the truth is unheard and unbelievable. In particular, misunderstandings and prejudices about the truth are very common phenomena in our faith.
perversion of truth
This truth we believe in is beyond our comprehension from a common sense or rational point of view. We believe in the Bible. However, the Bible is a book full of contradictions that cannot be trusted by human wisdom and reason. It was with the advent of critical studies in the theological world in the 19th century that I did not believe in these words and had greater misunderstandings and prejudices. Liberal theologians did not believe in the Bible unconditionally by developing critical studies, but developed a theological movement that analyzes and examines these words, chooses reliable ones, believes them, and discards those that do not believe. This terrifying critique developed and developed even the Shinshin Theology that God was dead.
Mystery of the Incarnation
If you look at the Bible today, there are words that are difficult to accept about Jesus. “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,” and explains about Jesus like this. “For he, being in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as robbery, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human form, and being found in human form, humbled himself and became obedient to death, even death on a cross “There are two themes about Jesus Christ in this verse.
One is that Jesus was originally God, but he was the Messiah who gave up God's rights and glory and came to this earth in the form of a man and the form of a servant. This is the destruction of the order of the great spiritual world. It was a tectonic shift in the kingdom of heaven. This text clearly speaks of the Messiah, who came to this earth as a human after God gave up his equality. But that Jesus did not come to live, but to die. He came to die, and he lived to die. With human common sense, it is very difficult to believe this fact about Jesus Christ. It is to believe that God came in human form and that He died on the cross as historical facts.
What do you guys have the most power? The most powerful thing is the truth. You don't know how terrifying it can be when something hidden turns out to be true. Therefore, many people are afraid of the facts. I had a comprehensive checkup about a month ago, but I heard from the hospital staff that there are people who do not receive this comprehensive checkup and avoid it. He said that he would rather live buried in fear that a hidden disease would be revealed after undergoing an examination. No matter how much you encourage your children to get tested, there are those who refuse to do so. In fact, it has great power and is scary. If falsification of academic background is found to be true, both the Minister and the Commissioner of the National Police Agency must resign. Even though it is true about you Jesus, people do not accept this. You don't know how much hurt it can be when you see someone who is not educated and say they are ignorant. However, if someone who has learned a lot is ignorant, there is no excuse. because you have yourself. An ignorant person must admit that he has not learned. Without acknowledging that fact, ignorance cannot be overcome. The fact that you are ignorant can only be overcome when you face it once.
truth of truth
Today we have an important time. Even our religious life has no hope if we hide the facts and hide them. Do you want to live a wonderful life before the Lord? Confess your own weaknesses and your own shame as an open truth before the Lord. 'Lord, I am such a terrible sinner. You have to break your own fact that you are nothing like this before God. Although Jesus Christ is God, he was revealed to mankind as a historical fact of coming to this earth in the form of a man. It is shameful and shameful for the God of glory to be revealed before men. that you are lowered. But the Lord showed that fact before this history. You have broken the order of the kingdom of heaven, but it is not destruction for the sake of destruction. When God became a man and came to this earth, he came to this earth after destroying the order of the kingdom of heaven for another construction to save his people. Thus the destruction that is to take place among us must not be for destruction, but for another test, creation, life.
The term destruction is used a lot these days. Such things as price destruction, destruction of educational background, and destruction of vested interests are being introduced everywhere. Destruction is not good. But what is wrong with misunderstandings and prejudices must be destroyed. The reason Jesus Christ came to this earth was not destruction for the sake of destruction, but destruction for life because it was according to God's promise, revelation, and providence to create a new world.
A few days ago, the Hallelujah Prayer Center was defined as a heresy by the CCK, and SBS defined this issue as a serious social evil and aired it. Now, we are moving on to the order that the judicial body should rule. Now everything that was hidden there is being revealed to be true. That's what I do because I'm afraid. In the face of scientific and practical facts, they are afraid.
reality of the heart of jesus
Now we must return to the reality of Jesus Christ. “Have this mind, which was also the mind of Christ Jesus.” We must have the mind of Jesus. That's the answer. But how can we explain the heart of Jesus? Do you have a color or shape? It's very vague. However, we must embrace the mind of Jesus and change it into the mind of Christ. That is a Christian and a child of God. This is what the text says about the reality of this heart.
The first is death on the cross. Jesus Christ is the historical Jesus who came to this earth. It is the image of the living God. The event that he came to this earth and actually died on the cross is a part of Jesus' heart. When I put the death of Jesus in my heart, I put the heart of Jesus in my heart. He did not die for his own sins, but atonement for the sins of all people. Therefore, just as Jesus Christ came to this earth and died, when we accept Jesus as our Savior and accept the cross as the truth in our hearts, death takes place in me. When Jesus enters into me, the old self and greed will die. It is the breaking of human reason. As the cross of Christ causes death in me, a new beginning arises in us.
And Jesus did not end with death, but rose from the dead on the third day. The heart of Jesus is the resurrection. It is to have the resurrected Jesus in our hearts. Therefore, after the death of the fleshly man and the death of all unclean things within us, anyone becomes a new creation in Christ. To accept the fact of Jesus' cross and resurrection by faith is to have the heart of Jesus. Only when the cross and resurrection of Jesus are alive in me can I overcome the temptations of this earth and the impulses of the devil.
closing words
All kinds of challenges are coming to us right now. The correct answer to this is that as long as Jesus came to this earth as the Messiah, died as atonement for me, and rose again, as long as Jesus is seated in my heart as the King of Kings, we will never be defeated or shaken.