Title: Hear, Eternal Gates
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“Lift up your heads, you gates; lift up, you eternal gates, for the King of glory enters” (Psalm 24:7).
“Lift up your heads, you gates; lift up, you eternal gates, for the King of glory enters” (Psalm 24:9).
It is the same word recorded in verses 7 and 9 of Psalm 24 of the Bible. You're just talking about "gates" and "eternal gates". Just "Gates" have heads and he says, "Gates, lift up your heads," but "Eternal Gates" have no heads and just say, "Hear, Eternal Gates." And to the "gates," He said, "Hold up," but to the "Eternal gates," He said, "Hear." He simply said, "Hold up," because the "gates" have their heads, but the "eternal gates" do not have their own heads, but rather, because Christ is their head, they are doors that cannot be lifted by themselves.
As it is written, “But not the spiritual, but the physical, and then the spiritual” (1 Corinthians 15:46), those who are not spiritual have their own head. But the next spiritual one does not have a head, but Christ is his head, so he lives only by Christ. As it is written, “Speaking the truth in love, you may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, which is Christ” (Ephesians 4:15).
Therefore, the eternal gates do not have their own head and cannot lift themselves, only they can. This is not I who live, but Christ lives in me. So you can't do anything on your own. Christ Jesus our Lord did not come of his own, but the Father sent him to come into the world, and the Father is the head of Christ. Judgment is righteous” (John 5:30). These are the "Eternal Gates". Just "doors" are not permanent doors. Therefore, although we know the gospel of the world, we do not know the eternal gospel.
As it is written, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human heart has conceived of all that God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). is.
Likewise, the “true light” is not a self-illuminating light. Because it is only the radiance of the glory of God the Father, it is not a “appearing light” but a “appearing light. The light that is “appeared” is the true light, as it is testified, “But all things that are reproved are made manifest by light, and everything that appears is light” (Ephesians 5:13).
And “Jesus said, If God had been your Father, you would have loved me, because I came from God; I did not come of myself, but the Father sent me” (John 8:42). He who seeks only glory, but seeks the glory of the one who sent him, is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him” (John 7:18).
Therefore, Christ himself testified, "...I can do nothing on my own...".
Therefore, Sunjin, who has gone ahead, testifies like this, “Not that I have already obtained it, nor that I have achieved it, but I am pursuing that for which I was captured by Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:12). I am the one who was taken captive by Christ, and therefore I can do nothing on my own.
The Apostle Paul, whose head is Christ, lived not by the faith of the “lifting door” but by the faith of the “lifting gate” through Christ. It is the same as he testified, “For me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21).
Therefore, the “eternal gates” are not gates that lift by themselves, but gates that are lifted up by Christ, our head.
The truth testifies, “As the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me” (John 6:57).
Those who live through Christ are the body of Christ. “Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of its own accord unless it abides in the vine, so neither can the branch, unless you abide in me.” (John 15:4) Amen, Lord! Thank you very much.
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