Title: I Am Clean (Acts 18:5-11)
All animals are driven by instinct like this. For animals, learning, hearing, and seeing is not a big deal. Basically, the primordial instinct is more strongly attracted to this and live that life and go back that way.
Now, then, what are people attracted to? Humans also have instincts. However, humans have a higher level of instinct that God has given them, which is different from animals. That is exactly what and . It doesn't matter who teaches or doesn't teach, whether or not you know the Six Laws. The fruit in our hearts and it guides him. That's why it's often said, "A person can live without law." It's true. Anyone can live without laws. It's just making up a lot of laws and making my head hurt. And if this light works, anyone can live a beautiful and peaceful life without law. It is the original form of human beings to live and live by the original fruit that God has given them. However, it cannot work brightly. It keeps working dark. So there is a problem. Greed arises, lies arise, and quarrels arise.
A psychologist named [William James] divides the ego into three broad categories.
Another is This means that people are evaluated according to whose friend they are, whose children they are, which company they are president of, where they come from, and what kind of doctorate they have. But this is also a problem. My status is not guaranteed forever. When my status collapses, just as birds lay eggs, wake up their young, and then fly away, leaving only an empty nest, then everyone else runs away from me. When I was in my position, people who were so infested with me abandoned me and left. have you heard the word? It's disappointing and futile. In an instant, you become a useless person. So, the most miserable thing in life is forgetting one's self, the more wretched thing is being robbed of one's self, the more wretched thing is being deprived of one's self, and living unaware that one's self has been taken is the most miserable thing.
Now the third evaluation is the most important. That's right. It's not about looking outward. People are not judged by their looks or by their possessions. This is evaluated in a person's inner world. We think of man as the image of God. How much the image of God lives in you and how clean the image of God is preserved are the criteria for evaluating that person. Human beings in the image of God, there is nothing more eternal than this. Where do you find your existence value or the existence value of others based on where? will have to get out of I will not rate it any further. You should only be able to see your future within and see the future of others.
Also, if you read today's text carefully, you will see Paul's self-confession, "I am clean." What this means is, “I have done my job.” For the sake of the salvation of the Jews, there was nothing left to do, and there was nothing that could be done. It is Paul's own confession that he had done his best, and that he poured out his passion without regret. As we listen to Paul's confession today, there is something we must never forget. It is clearly a fact that God has a work to do and I have a work to do. I have work to do. And when I'm done, God will do the rest. But the problem is that I don't do all the work I have to do, I just expect what God will do. Have you done your duty without shame before God as an officer in the Church of God? Have you done your duty as a district manager? As choir members, church school teachers, and furthermore, as saints, can we all say, like Paul, “I am clean”?
Dear saints!
Are we clean? How clean are you? How clean is it? Can you be confident that you have done enough for the church? Like Paul, are you confident that I have done enough for evangelism? Do you really have any pride as a Christian who has no shame toward the world? Just as the Apostle Paul did not keep pace with the world, but was captivated by the Word and stood proudly before the gospel with clean faith and conscience, let us put ourselves down before the cross and evaluate ourselves calmly if we have the courage to say to anyone, “I am clean” Please take a look and find your own.