Title: How Well Who Knows Himself?
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Sunday day sermon
Text: Matthew 5:17-20
Title: Who Knows How Well He Knows Himself?
The law was the law and life for the people of Israel. God gave the people of Israel to live by giving them the law, so that they should not live according to the laws of the world, nor live according to their own thoughts, but only live according to the law, and listen to the words of God spoken by the prophets every time. Hearing this, do not turn aside to sin or to the right, but run only by faith in God and come to salvation. Although there were ups and downs in Israel's life of salvation, it continued at least until the time of the prophet Malachi. Then, in about 200 BC, Antiochus Epiphanes of Egypt besieged the temple in Jerusalem and entered the holy temple of God to offer sacrifices. By this time, the temple in Jerusalem had already been defiled by the Gentiles. The prophets of Israel also stopped working at this time. Daniel had already prophesied that these things would happen, about 600 B.C., and as Daniel had predicted, it all came true.
Then why God? Had the Gentiles been allowed to defile God's holy temple? Even then and now, this is the part that believers do not understand the most about God. In the opinion of those who believe, it is because of the belief that God will never abandon the chosen people. This is exactly right. Once God has chosen His people, His children, He never forsakes them. The question is, to what extent are the people chosen by God, and to what extent are the general people not belonging to God? will do This means that from the perspective of humans, the difference between thinking that they are God's people and thinking that God is His people is very different. It is precisely because of this difference of thought that there is inevitably a gap between God and man.
From the point of view of human beings, as long as they unconditionally call on God's name, they will think that God has chosen them. When I think about it that way, there is a sense of complacency in humans, and God is generous, so He will take care of you even if you are not good at it! One mistake leads to two, and two errors to another three, and the wall of sin in the middle causes the distance between man and God to grow further and further. Humans who did not realize that, God is still love, so God will never abandon the people he has chosen, and will surely come back to us! But, since the wages of sin is death, God gives judgment (punishment) in return for the sins committed by mankind, which is what allows vicious Gentiles like Epiphanes to defile the temple in Jerusalem.
The believing people do not understand this. It means that if believers unconditionally call on God's name, they know that everything has been done with it, and they fall into complacency and live their own lives. Then suddenly, when this happens, you say, 'No! Dare to defile the holy temple of God on the subject of Gentiles!' Then, he doubles his eyes and tries his best to drive them out. As this happens, more and more they will only suffer. Believers, when this happens to them, why! We should try to realize that such a terrible thing has happened to us, but it is that we are covering it up and arguing only with what is unfolding before our eyes. That is the spiritual darkness that comes from believers completely unaware of themselves.
The fact that God no longer sent prophets to the Israelites after the end of the prophet Malachi is proof that God has already abandoned the people of Israel. Forsaken, now they have no choice but to continue the deeds of the law. No matter how hard you try, no matter how hard you try, you can never reach salvation. All they have to do through the law is to realize their sins. But instead of realizing their sins through the law, they were becoming more righteous. This is a shortcut to death for them. The cut off of the prophet means that the word of God has disappeared, and the disappearance of the word means that the path to faith has disappeared. But without faith, they were trying to make themselves righteous.
So Jesus came and said, ?쏡o not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets! I did not come to destroy it, but to make it perfect!??The meaning of these words is 'You have gone forward by faith through the words of the Law and the Prophets, but now I have come to fulfill them all at once', 'So now believe me and come out!' Just as a person who is not without a prophet cannot realize his sin, and a person who does not listen to the words of the prophet cannot come forward by faith, so you have lived only by the deeds of the law without a prophet. Now it will be perfected to build it up.???쏝ut now you must believe in me and come out.??
Now, there is no other way for the Gentiles to live. Only the Lord who comes as Spirit among the Gentiles must be received by faith. All the courses our members are training right now are training to humble themselves in order to believe and accept the Lord who will come as the Spirit at once. In order to humble yourself, you must first realize your sins deeply, and the way to do this is to be able to see your sins yourself. I have lived my life unaware that what I usually do is a sin, but they must clearly feel the difference between the degree of sin they feel when they live according to their own thoughts through this pulpit and the degree of sin they feel when they live according to the will of the pulpit. By discovering the difference in feeling, you should be able to see your sins and humble yourself.
When you tell people to give up on themselves to believe in the Lord, why? I don't know if I should give up on myself. So why! You have to make yourself aware that you have to give up on yourself so that you can give up on yourself. Anyone can believe in the Lord if they only realize themselves. Also, no matter what happens to them, those who are aware of themselves will always be able to receive help from the Lord because they always relate it to God. On the other hand, those who do not understand themselves, because darkness surrounds them, even when God's chastisement comes, they do not realize it, but instead oppose it and perish. In the end, the Lord, who came to establish the law and the prophets, not to abolish them, believes in Him. Who and how well do we understand ourselves? Your best interests depend on what you do.