Title: Heaven is like a mustard seed...
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Sunday day sermon
Text: Luke 13:18-21
Title: Heaven Is Like a Mustard Seed...
The world only likes big and colorful things that are immediately visible. So I don't really care about things that seem insignificant and insignificant. The reason they have no choice but to settle for the reality in front of them is that an eternal future is not guaranteed for them. So, in order to shake off the unstable reality even a little, you have to live a life where you can only be satisfied with reality.
This phenomenon is not much different from non-believers just because they are believers. All who believe, Lord! Lord! But deep down, they are also anxious. If they had not lived with that thought, all believers by now would have more than enough to fulfill their role of light and salt in the world as children of God.
If we read the Bible a little carefully, we can get a glimpse of how much the characters in the Bible abandoned themselves and depended on God. This is proof that he lived far away from the world. However, if you look into the lives of Christians today in the light of the characters in the Bible, you can easily find that they are living very inconsistent lives.
Some people claim that the characters in the Bible were chosen by God to lead such a life, but the corpses lying in the graves have excuses anyway. So, does that mean that God gave such grace to some people so that they could live, and to whom did God not give grace? God is never like that. God grants grace to all humans equally. It is simply that God chose a certain person to lead such a life in order to accurately convey God's will to all people through him.
For example, God pre-selected Abraham to lead such a life, foreseeing the world to come, God did so that the next generation could imitate Abraham's life. Likewise, what made Moses go through a rigorous training process in advance was God's thorough preparation for the future exodus of the Israelites. So, Abraham was chosen as a type of faith, and Moses was chosen as a type of leader who would lead the people.
The problem is the people. It is that they do not listen to the leaders whom God has established. The reason they complain is that they are the same people who believe in God, so why should they listen to such a person? All human problems arise here. God chooses and uses one person to give grace to all humans equally. But what people think is, why should we listen to and follow the words of people who are no different from them?
In Malachi 2:15 we read, “Though the Lord is given a spirit, has He not made only one? How did you build only one? That he might have godly offspring!” The meaning of these words is that God does not want to deal with many people at once, but rather chooses one person and wants to speak to many people through him. A godly offspring is exactly what he is talking about. A godly descendant comes forward to deal with God, and he also speaks to humans the words he has received from God. The one who does this is Jesus Christ, who was born as a human being. This is the kind of Christ that must come even before the Gentiles.
It is a repeated message, but it is that the spiritual Christ, who will accurately mediate between God and man, has not yet come to Christians. Therefore, it is difficult for Christians to find a perfect person in anyone yet. Soon, when the spiritual Christ comes to the Christians and points them to the perfect, only then will the Christian life be able to change biblically. Until then, the perfect life of Christ will not be revealed to anyone.
Today's Christians, unaware of this fact, mistakenly believe that if they die unconditionally, they will all go to heaven, but today's Christians are aware of the fact that the Pharisees, despite their hard work of faith, could not break their thoughts until the end, so they rejected Christ and met a tragic end. will never be forgotten. We need to know that heaven is never as flashy or noisy as we think it is. As the Bible says today, “The kingdom of God is like a mustard seed planted in one’s own field, which at first seems insignificant. However, when a mustard seed grows into a tree and grows, all the birds of the air will nest in its branch. ” This is how heaven grows in people's hearts.
But what about the life of Christians today?
Everyone is calling on God with their mouths in order to hold onto only the visible reality, and the life of Christ is nowhere to be seen. That is why the spiritual Christ must come to Christians as soon as possible and teach them the right way. Even if the spiritual Christ has already come to this world and is secretly training His disciples, since He has not yet appeared before Christians, Christians must wait with deep longing for Him.
The Lord who comes before Christians will come through the messengers of the seven churches as recorded in the Book of Revelation. In the future, all people on this earth, believers or non-believers, must believe in the Lord who comes in this way, so that they can enter perfect eternal life. We do not know how much Christians acknowledge and believe in the Lord who comes through humans, but in any case, the spiritual Lord will surely come again before the Gentiles like this. Through people chosen before God.