Title: Heirs of Heaven (Matthew 18:1-5)
Content The Bible has a principle of seeing. It should be approached with humility and reverence.
If we understand it in terms of worldly morality or religion, we will never reach the revelation. We should not, like some people, lift up newspapers and magazines to tie political and social change to the Bible. If you think that the Bible is written in earthly language as speaking of earthly things, you will not be able to escape from darkness.
The Bible always has its own interpretation method. It points to the will of heaven by using earthly words and parables as fingers. For example, if the hand sins, cut off the hand; if the foot sins, cut off the foot. Muslims who see this as the law cut off the thief's hand. But the attention of the Lord is not in the hands and feet. It is the mind that commits a crime, and the hands and feet are only servants.
If that happens, no part of the body will be able to remain uninjured. It is the soul that goes to hell. The body is merely clothed with the soul's garment and thrown together into Hell. So, in the end, the pain of the hands and feet is only a shadow of the soul's suffering. If hand-bak, which is nothing more than clothing, is so important, what will be the preciousness and pain of the soul as a true person!
People want to be high. You want to be loved for a brief moment in your body. Some people get angry to exalt themselves and raise their guns. How will he be exalted? Also, would such a raging method work in heaven? So, the disciples asked how to be truly exalted, not in this way.
When did Christ ask Him to exalt Him, or when did He take a high seat? Rather, He was in the form of God, and forsakes his glory and humbled himself, not taking the form of a servant! He did not come to be served, but to serve, and gave his life as a ransom for many! No one thanked him, no one defended him, and everyone betrayed him and turned his back on him.
Nevertheless, he rejoiced in what he had done and was not satisfied with his labor! (Isa 53:11) Through what he did, we all inherited a place in the kingdom of heaven with him without qualification! Thanks to him, we are freed from the domination of demons and experience a new life. Here we learn an entirely different wisdom. The lower it is, the more satisfied it is, the lower it is, the richer it is
Then, should we outwardly force ourselves to give and force ourselves to be humble? Wasn't this the way we have always been? It seems that we are always giving and humbled, but what are we actually giving and what humility we practiced? only experience Did Christ command outward obedience, leaving the change of heart alone?
Still, does it teach that those who try will receive the corresponding reward and grow in their faith? Other religions and morals say so.
Therefore, intensifying man's own efforts will lead him away from the understanding of the gospel. As one's righteousness increases, the righteousness of God moves away from human concern. Monkeys handsomer than humans are still monkeys, and humans ugly than monkeys are still humans.
The Lord's concern is not to train monkeys to become prosperous, but to make them human. It is not to make us good people on earth, but to make us into the true family of God. A child humbles himself, but it is not the same as an adult humbles himself. It's high, but it's not low. It's low at all, so you know that.
People say to imitate a little child. It is said to practice humility. Is he speaking in imitation of the voice and tone of a child, like those who say that he should literally become a child, or he knows that he is a child before God? Believers are the ones who believe that they are children who believe in one thing while holding hands with their father on the battlefield where the terrible winds and demons attack.
The most erroneous starting point in faith is to first focus all your attention on how to live in front of people. How will others see me and how should I receive God's blessing? In general, these two things are of interest to believers. To put it bluntly, this body that I was called to, and the cross that I despised, was going to be carried away by me. I'm always interested in what I'm going to do.
But little children don't think they can do anything on their own. hope your parents do he just follows From start to finish, they are completely dependent on their parents. The behavior is one's own, but all reciprocal children are created by parents. From waking up in the morning to going to bed, bed, food, clothing, and everything else is given as given by parents. Everything is up to the parents. Believers are little children.
Children never work hard. They must give birth to them. The same is true for children of God. Seo-young has to go inside and give birth to a new baby. Then he becomes a glorious heir and is reborn into a new race.
A reborn person does not live alone like an orphan. They depend entirely on their parents and live with their parents as their own. There is no heaven without becoming a child of God.
Thus, the more you know that you are a child of God, the more you know that you are such a young and weak being, and the more you depend entirely on your parents, the more you understand that the character and abilities of your parents are given to you, the more you will become a blessed person. This is the realization of the soul, the fundamental change, and it is a blessing in itself. The body that surrounds this soul will be blessed and the environment that surrounds it will be prosperous.
In the name of Christ, those who depend on his strength do not treat anyone harshly. We will do it out of love as Christ treats people. Even a child will be cherished like a Christ, and in doing so, a perfect relationship will be established as if the Christ were another Christ. The heirs of heaven are his children born of God.