Title: Healthy Christian Families (Ephesians 5:22-...
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Healthy Christian Family (Ephesians 5:22-33) 2000.05.28.
A person's heart can turn heaven into hell, or it can change hell. If you look at this beautiful world that God has made and give thanks, admiration, and praise to it, the world becomes heaven. If you ask how this damn world looks like this, that person's heart already becomes hell. Likewise, if you think that your family is infinitely proud, comfortable, comforting, hopeful, and cozy, your home becomes something to be proud of. If you always want to get in quickly and want to rest, it can be heaven. It might be.
If this beautiful world that God has made, the family God has given us to experience the kingdom of heaven, is not a condition or object of gratitude, we cannot experience God.
A futurist named Alvin Toffler wrote a book called Future Shock, which caused a great sensation. So the future will have a big shock. Talking like that, the influence penetrates into our family first, so the future of our family is very negative and pessimistic. The family may collapse." have ever been
The family crisis that the world is facing today is on the brink of danger. Why is our home being broken up like this in recent years? I don't know if it was because of the way of thinking of young people who take marriage lightly as a practice, as they get better and the problem of making a living is solved.
If the family, the most basic community that supports our society, is destroyed, the future of our society cannot be guaranteed. Family scholars say that when the family community is shaken, the social state community is shaken, and when the family ethics is broken, the social ethics also collapses, which inevitably leads to an increase in juvenile and sexual crimes.
Today, not only our country but also families around the world are sick. Families are living with great wounds. There are many broken families. How the family that God has blessed us with can turn a sick family into a healthy one, it is not society, nor university, but our church. Church and home are said to be cousins. So, we need to know that our church has a mission to take responsibility for our sick families and heal them.
There are three small heavens resembling the kingdom of heaven that God has given to this earth. It is our heart, our home, and our church. In particular, the home heaven is a place where we have God the Father, love brothers and sisters, share food, love each other, comfort each other, and talk. Even if everyone is lacking and lacking, I believe that if the Lord is there, the church that overflows my cup, the family that overflows my cup, and our hearts.
Family life is peace. The family in the Garden of Eden was also a peaceful family. Peace is the shadow of the home. So, at home, rest. A Chinese proverb says, “A peaceful family brings happiness to its own feet.”
A home is a community. So families should love and respect each other. It is a place to honor parents, to love between husband and wife, and to teach well to children. Our oldest school is the home. Home is where you learn everything you need for social life.
Christianity is about finding lost homes in Eden. I hope that God's grace, happiness, and love will abound in the families of our members.
Today, this era is an era of change. The whole world changes. Culture, nature, international order, and value standards change. It also changes day by day. However, no matter how much these things change, we can live as much as we want, but the thing that should not change is the family. The family cannot be shaken and cannot change. However, the crisis of our humanity today is that the family collapses and changes. Humanity is suffering and unhappiness today as families change and collapse. The destruction of such families soon causes social problems. Therefore, the treatment of this society must begin at home, and the way to make this country a blessing must also be found at home.
Family is the most precious gift God has given us. A home is a place where God created and God is with him. Therefore, the family cannot achieve happiness through human strength or effort. The idea that humans can be happy is a dangerous and depraved idea. Today, my family thinks that happiness comes only when we dress well, spend well, and become rich.
Psalm 127 says, "Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain." Yes. True happiness comes from the presence and support of Jehovah in our homes.
God has given everyone equally the raw materials for happiness that we humans can enjoy. He gave sleep, air, sunlight, plants, taste, and love equally. Therefore, if God is with us, we can live in this world like a paradise with the grace that God has given us. The purpose of the family is to glorify the God who gave it. It is God's responsibility to worry about what to eat and what to drink. It is what your father gives you.
However, the problem with modern people today is that they worry about what God will do and do not do what should glorify and please God. Our human purpose is to serve and glorify the living God, the Almighty God, the God who gave us homes and life.
The foundation of the family is the marital relationship between husband and wife.
You must be a husband who knows how to love.
(1) You must develop your skills.
Men live by skill. Even if you look young, even if you are short and ugly, your wife will say, 'Hey, that person is a great person.' should be heard. You must have the skills. And when does a wife respect her husband? When I see that I do my best and work hard at my job, I respect it. It is not just study and knowledge. I have to try to be the best person in the world with confidence in what I am doing. A husband who works hard and tiring but excitedly is respected. You must be proud of your work and do your best. A man must be competent just as a woman must be beautiful.
(2) The chest should be wide.
I'm not talking about the body, I'm talking about the mind. A wide chest is full of skills, but a man needs an open chest. Cancer has a lasting potential within the human body because it is a disease that occurs from within, not from outside. Cancer is not found in animals in the natural world. However, it is found in dogs and cats who live on the same diet as humans. Cancer drugs artificially inject carcinogens into animals and treat them through therapeutic agents. The reality is that it is difficult to completely cure it.
All humans have genes that cause cancer. The general public is only suppressing the growth of cancer by the body's immune system working. Therefore, it is a miracle that he currently does not have cancer. However, when humans are under extreme stress, their autoimmunity declines, so they get cancer. Clinical results 97% of patients develop cancer due to mental confusion and stress. What we need to do is get rid of the human environment favored by oncogenes. Cancer has multiple causes: spiritual, mental, emotional, environmental, and biological.
Even believers sometimes get stressed because of their wrong family life and church life. By focusing on the formal aspects of the family and church without the work of healing, restoring, and changing the inner state, there are many people who mistakenly believe that they are living a family life and a religious life, and are a family person and a spiritual person.
However, the first priority should be the healing of one's inner world, not the formal aspects of the family and the church. Numerous abnormalities are hidden within human beings, and if they are not revealed, we live a pretentious life and start an unhappy life. If the abnormality is not revealed, the opportunity for healing is also lost and ultimately irreversible.
When dealing with a person's physical illness as well as personal issues, the essential thing is the relationship with the parents. Humans form personality through modeling. They think they are different from their parents, but everyone finds that they have a lot in common with their parents. Your self-image depends on how your parents treated you. Those who treat their parents personally, receive a lot of love from their parents, and learn the truth in the right way will have a healthy self-portrait. However, those who are not recognized by their parents live with a distorted self-portrait.
Therefore, building a happy family is the most important remedy for the treatment of cancer, which has an intrinsic cause, and the restoration of a distorted self-image.
When I stand before God, the worst thing is self-deprecation, blasphemy, and self-destruction of the love of God who chose me and saved me. Without a proper diagnosis of yourself, you cannot be cured. With a distorted personality, you cannot love the Lord or love your wife and children. We are given the opportunity to heal and recover only when we make a self-denial that everything is impossible without the power of God and make a correct diagnosis for ourselves and our family.
The spiritual values that underlie this nation and our society - love, trust and respect for humanity - must be reestablished. Based on such spiritual values, we have to build the lives of this nation again and reshape our society. We must rebuild our homes on this spiritual foundation. And I think this should start from our homes. Because our home is the foundation and root of this society. Reconstruction of broken families, stability of shaky families... I think these are the beginnings and fundamental solutions to overcoming the crisis our society is facing now.
So, everyone, how can we set up our shaken homes? Of course, we must find the answer in the Bible, the Word of God.
The family is the channel through which the legacy of our lives is passed down. Descendants prosper through the family, and the race is passed down. Traditions and cultures are passed down through the family. Values and ethics are passed down through the family. The wisdom of mankind is passed down through the family. It is through the relationship between parent and child that the great legacy of mankind is passed down.
A life that believes and relies on God the only life that can be the most valuable and eternal inheritance is what we should pass down to our descendants through the lives of our parents, not our words.