Title: Heaven Approaching Us/Mark 1:14-15
Content Word: Mark 1:14-15
1. The time is full
The phrase “the time is fulfilled” means that God’s time for us has finally arrived. We believe that our time will proceed as we expect and expect. However, there are times when this is not the case. A young businessman started a travel agency. The business did well and we continued to expand and look to other businesses. The young man set his own business timetable, expanded his business, and thought he would live his life as a businessman. However, the business that was doing well began to decline, and I had a difficult time every day. In the meantime, I recovered my faith, which I had lost for a long time, and entered the seminary to prepare for the ministry. God's time schedule, which was completely different from the time schedule this man had planned, was going on.
I think our time will proceed according to our plan. But we must admit that God has a timetable for us. There are times when God's timetable for us comes to us that we did not expect. According to God's timetable for us, our life's journey will change and our lives will be transformed.
There is a time schedule for God to meet us. There are times when God's grace is manifested in our homes, in our churches, and in this country. This is a time waiting and waiting for God to do a precious work for us. It is not by chance that the Holy Spirit works by passing by, but God works when we wait for God's time for us and finally "the time is fulfilled".
Therefore, we must pray for God's time.
2. The kingdom of God is at hand:
To say that the kingdom of God is near means that the kingdom of God is right next to us. Jesus gave his life to bring the kingdom of God right to our side. The kingdom of God can be experienced not only in the world after death, but also in the reality in which we live. The kingdom of God next to us is a kingdom filled with love, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. The kingdom of God is a country where you can experience comfort in the Holy Spirit and receive refreshment from the Holy Spirit. The kingdom of God is a place filled with the presence of God where you can be used and glorified as God's instruments in the Holy Spirit.
Some people are living enjoying the kingdom of God that is right next to us, while others are not enjoying it at all. We bless you as believers who live and enjoy the kingdom of God that is with us.
3. Repent:
In order to become the protagonists who experience the kingdom of God, we must have “repentance” and “belief in the power of the gospel” in our lives. Because it is something we must practice, Jesus said as a command to “believe the gospel through repentance.”
In order to enjoy the kingdom of God right next to us, we must repent. Repentance is like the key to unlocking the kingdom of God. Even though they are in the same place, some people live enjoying the kingdom of God, while those next to them live in hell. The difference lies in repentance. In order to live a life where you can enjoy the kingdom of God, you must repent. Repentance must be given priority over faith in the gospel, and we must repent before God every day.
Repentance is acknowledging one's shortcomings in the light of God and acknowledging one's own shortcomings to God. Repentance is confessing before God that one's evil, one's stubbornness, and one's righteousness have been revealed, and acknowledging that one's life needs God.
Also, repentance is changing one's heart in the light of the Word. You must change your mind in the Holy Spirit and never give up on the life you wanted to give up on. We must change our hearts by hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit who tells us that we have an attitude of heart that we need to change.
4. Believe the Gospel of God:
Jesus tells us to believe the gospel in order to enjoy the kingdom of God.
First, we must believe in the gospel of God. There is a gospel of the world that we are easily persuaded. The whisper, “You just have to pretend you don’t know for a moment, this degree of illegality is nothing” is the gospel of the world. But Jesus told us to believe the gospel of God, not the gospel of the world. The gospel of God is the news that because of Jesus, we have become the glorious children of God who call God Father. As children of God, we must live in this world with the power that God gives us. Believing in the gospel of God is to believe that life is lived to the fullest by what Heavenly Father fully provides. And we must simply believe in the gospel of God that the glorious world that Jesus has prepared in heaven awaits us.
Second, we must believe in the power of the gospel. To believe the gospel means to believe in the power of the gospel. To believe in the power of the gospel is to believe in the unconditional love of God the Father, who willingly gave the Son Jesus Christ for us. We must believe in the love of our Heavenly Father who forgives us unconditionally. We must believe in Heavenly Father's unconditional love of forgiveness for the things of the past. And we must believe in Heavenly Father's love for our lives in the future. We believe that God will eventually accomplish God's good, and that today's process is also a process in which God's perfection will be revealed in our lives. To acknowledge God is to believe in the power of the gospel.
Third, we must dream the dreams that God gives us. To believe the gospel is to imagine what our Heavenly Father will do. Dreaming and imagining what God the Holy Spirit will do is concrete faith. That is to believe in the gospel, and to believe in the power of the gospel.
Conclusion:
We have work to keep going on for the rest of our lives. It is repenting and believing in the power of the gospel. Then we can enjoy heaven and live. However, if we do not repent and believe in the power of the gospel, we may not enjoy the heaven that is next to us and we may only smell the heavenly smell. We must repent and believe in the power of the gospel to possess and enjoy the kingdom of heaven that is with us.