Title: I Came to Call for Sinners!
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Sunday day sermon
Text: Matthew 9:9-13
Title: I have come to call sinners!
It seems like the new year of 2008 has just started, but the year has already come and there are only a few days left. Believers and non-believers alike start the year with inflated dreams, but when you look at the end of the year, you will always feel regretful. This is because humans started with a dream that stemmed from their own greed. At least, believers should have given up on these false dreams and tried to hold onto the heavenly things.
The Lord says that He has always come to call sinners. However, it hurts the Lord's heart more that all the Jews living under the law at the time of Jesus or the Christians living under the Holy Spirit today are all righteous rather than all sinners. The Bible says that nothing can be cleansed by the law. Then, Christians living under the law of the Holy Spirit are also telling us that no one has been made perfect yet. The reason is that, among Gentiles with corrupt hearts, no one can fully obey the will of the Holy Spirit. But if you listen to what they are saying, you will see that all of them are righteous (salvation).
If the Lord came before these people like a thief (secretly) and called sinners, would they really be able to understand the voice of the Lord? Matthew, who was sitting at the customs office at the time of Jesus, would not have heard the voice of the Lord if he had sat there thinking that he was a righteous man. However, he was forced to sit at the customs office run by the Romans in order to make a living and serve as their servants, but he could not get rid of the thought that he was a sinner sucking the blood of his own people. was able to kick out
If the Lord comes like a thief in front of our Christians today and calls us like Matthew, how many Christians will hear the Lord's voice and run away? In order for us to hear the voice of the Lord and run like Matthew, we must at least ourselves become unspeakable sinners. But, far from being sinners, we are busy adorning ourselves as righteous people whenever we have time. With such a spirit, can we immediately recognize the voice of the Lord who has come to call sinners? The conclusion is that it is almost sparse.
Our conduct is not the only one. When he sees non-believers, he condemns them as bastards of the devil and, moreover, does not have any dealings with people of other religions for fear of burying their traces. Yet, with their mouths, they cry out for the love of Christ. The love of Christ should be able to love all who consider themselves sinners. But if I say that I have the love of Christ and give love only to those who are good to me, how can I say that it is love through Christ? Therefore, believers and unbelievers alike must be sinners before Christ.
What is even more incomprehensible to believers today is that if they call on the same name of Jesus and the same name of God, but do not conform to their doctrine, they are condemned as heresy. Who the hell invented that doctrine? If the Lord made that doctrine, why is it different for each denomination? Judging from these facts alone, it is clear that their doctrine was not given by the Lord, but was created by humans to satisfy their desires.
It wasn't just the Christians who were doing this monstrous thing, it was the same with the Jews at the time. At that time, they also had several denominations, but only the Pharisees were orthodox, and all the others were heresy. However, Saul, a Pharisee who was proud to be the most orthodox at the time, captured and killed the believers in Jesus. Fortunately, Saul met Jesus and was converted, but the Pharisees insisted on their orthodoxy until the end, but they did not believe in Jesus until the end, and everyone went down the road to destruction.
Even today, each denomination raises their voices to the utmost that they are an orthodox denomination. But what they need to know is that only Jesus is orthodox. Even if they claim to be orthodox, if they do not believe in the Lord who comes before them, they become heretics. Therefore, the creation of a cult does not become a cult because they do not follow the doctrine made by each denomination, but when they do not believe in the Lord who comes before humans, they become cults. Even now, Satan wears human clothing and sits in the Lord's seat, accusing them of unconditional heresy if they do not follow the doctrine they have made, which is the opposite of the Lord's will.
For humans born of Adam's descendants, all are sinners and children of Satan. The only way for man to escape from the children of Satan is to be born again through Jesus who came from heaven. However, humans have become righteous on their own because they have kept the law or the law of the Holy Spirit. Then, human beings should have lived without breaking a single law given by God. Who in this world could live without breaking the law? Even for that reason, there are no righteous people in this world. But before everyone met Jesus, they were using the title of righteous. No one can be righteous under the law. The reason is that no one can yet meet the Lord under the law.
At the time of Jesus, some Jews and Pharisees used the title righteous for themselves. However, they could never be free from sin because they did not believe in Jesus to the end. Nevertheless, they lived by pretending to be themselves. Those who come through Christ (the righteous) never criticize or condemn others. Because he knows better than anyone that he himself is a sinner. But the righteous (sinners) who are not through Christ criticize and condemn others. This makes it easy to identify them.
This is still the case today. Even today, those whom the Lord justifies never slander or condemn others. The reason is that he too is a sinner who lives by the grace of the Lord. But even today, those who have made themselves righteous have their pride piercing the sky. That is why such people like to slander and despise others. Furthermore, he unconditionally treats those who are less than himself as sinners and tries not to engage in business. This makes it immediately known whether they belong to the earth or to the heavens. Today, the Lord is not looking for these righteous people, but for those who consider themselves to be sinners.