Title: Joy Beyond Pain
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Worship on the 11th of Lent>> ----> Monday
Title: Joy Beyond Pain
Bible: John 16:16-24
Quiet Prayer: Together
Hymn: 272
Representative prayer: Shin Kyung-sook's wife
Title: Joy Beyond Pain
Bible: John 16:16-24 483
Starting Point of the Word>>
This time, we share the word with the title of “Joy beyond pain” through the words of the text.
Summarizing the words of the text first,
Jesus tells his disciples that I cannot be with you now because I am leaving you and going to the Father.
When Jesus leaves his disciples, the disciples will fall into great sorrow and sorrow.
But Jesus adds hope that the joy will be greater for the disciples after the pain is over.
And he says that they will receive anything they ask for in Jesus name.
Looking at the words of verses 16-22,
It speaks of the sorrow of Jesus leaving his disciples and the joy of being reunited.
But the disciples still did not understand that Jesus was leaving.
If we look at verse 16 of the text,
“In a little while you will not see me, and in a little while you will see me.”
These words refer primarily to the death and resurrection of Jesus.
The death of Jesus would bring joy to the world who organized it, but it was a painful event for the disciples.
But that pain will turn into unspeakable joy as we witness the resurrection of Jesus. Just as a mother completely forgets the pain of childbirth with the great joy of seeing a new life, so when she meets the Lord of Resurrection, her sorrow will disappear like a mist.
Many people today, like the disciples, live with various kinds of troubles. Discord between husband and wife causes the whole family to be worried, and sometimes to the crisis of having to quit their job.
As long as we live on this earth, we will continue to suffer and worry.
However, like the words of today's text, I pray in the name of the Lord that the grace that turns the problems of our worries into joy will overflow and overflow in your lives.
Go to Word>>
Looking back at today's verse,
First, Jesus told his disciples that your sorrow will turn into joy.
So what were the disciples' worries?
According to John 16:5-6,
"Now I am going to the one who sent me, and none of you asks me where I am going, but because I say these things, your hearts are filled with sorrow."
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When the disciples heard the words of Jesus d,l, they were amazed and their hearts were filled with sorrow.
They asked each other, "What does it mean that you will not see me in a little while, and you will see me in a little while, or that you are going to the Father?"
The disciples were somehow anxious, and they could not help but worry.
The 'worry' that the Lord spoke of was a bigger problem than the disciples thought. When we see that Jesus said, "I am so grieved that I am about to die" before he took up the cross, it tells us that it was a matter of great physical pain.
So Jesus told his disciples
“Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and mourn.”
Says.
The extent of that pain is to the point of weeping and mourning.
These verses meant that many people who followed Him would mourn because Jesus died on the cross.
Jesus was stripped of his clothes like a lamb being led to the slaughter, like a lamb silent before its shearers, being humiliated and ridiculed, carrying the cross, and crucified miserably on the hill of Golgotha.
This is what we should weep and mourn.
But these days, there are times when we forget the image of Jesus suffering on the cross.
Do you not remember the event of Jesus' crucifixion as an event that has passed into the past?
As Jesus died on the cross, the disciples would mourn, but the world would rejoice.
According to John 15:18-19,
“If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own, but the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.”
You did.
When Jesus was crucified, many followers of Jesus wept and mourned, but the devil rejoiced when he knew that his world had come.
However, the cross is the event that overcame sin and death, which are the powers of the devil.
If the cross bruised Jesus' heel, the cross was also a decisive event of victory that bruised the devil's head.
Therefore, as 1 Corinthians 1:18 says,
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”
must be a believer in the Word.
Also, we must become saints who restore the tribulation and ridicule we receive from the world to joy.
"If you believe in Jesus, you will be blessed." However, it seems that we have failed and lost, but please remember that the ultimate victory is ours.
According to John 16:33,
"I have told you this, that you may find peace in me. In the world you will have tribulation, but take courage. I have overcome the world." You said.
If we have a little bit of patience, He will make us happy, but we lose the joy that comes from God's grace because we can't bear it and can't endure it.
Then why did Jesus have to leave his disciples?
Why do you allow pain and suffering in our lives?
If we look at the words of verse 21,
“When a woman gives birth, she is grieved because the hour has come, but when she gives birth to a child, she does not remember the pain again because of the joy of being born into the world.”
There is a reason Jesus allows us to suffer.
① It is because a moment of worry and pain becomes an opportunity to add joy to us.
The cross was the spiritual labor of Jesus to give birth to new life.
Without knowing this pain, we do not know God's grace, forgiveness, and love.
The mother who gave birth said that she will not remember the pain again because of the joy of being born into the world.
This speaks of the hope of resurrection that we will enjoy in the future.
We face tribulation in the world and live in the persecution of the devil, but if we look to the glory of the resurrection after the cross, we will become saints who can overcome the pain of spiritual childbirth by carrying the cross like the Lord.
② Because it is more beneficial to us that Jesus departs.
According to John 16:7,
“Nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; the Counselor will not come to you unless I go away; but if I go, I will send him to you.”
Jesus said that the Holy Spirit is given to us as a gift only when he ascends into the kingdom of God.
Jesus says.
“I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.”
Jesus did not depart to leave us orphans, but to dwell in us by the Holy Spirit for eternity.
If you confess that Jesus is Lord, you are a person with the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit still dwells in us, convincing us of sin, guiding us into the truth, discerning the will of God, and helping us when we are in weakness.
③ It is to give you eternal joy.
Verse 22 of the text,
“You are sad now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one can take your joy away.”
Here, 'your joy' is different from the joy the world gives.
As I said before, the joy of the world must rejoice even when it kills people, rejoice by stealing the joy of others, deceive, and seek pleasure every day.
But this joy is short-lived.
Then, the end of the world is death and judgment, but the death of the saints is not a period, but a comma.
Our joy is eternal.
The Lord has not replaced our worries with worldly things, but has transformed us into spiritual joy only through the Holy Spirit from above.
The Lord will judge the world “in a little while” and will come again to save us.
If you depend on the Holy Spirit and live a life that walks with the Holy Spirit no matter what kind of trouble you have or what kind of pain in life, please believe that worry will turn into joy in "a little while".
At the end of the speech>>
According to John 16:23,
“In that day you will ask me nothing.
He says that on that day we ask nothing of God.
That day is the day of the Lord's resurrection and the day of His Second Coming.
On that day, we do not ask why we have such a hard life of faith.
The reason we face hardships and difficulties in the circumstances of our lives now is because the joy of the Lord's grace is guaranteed on that day.
As we keep Lent, we hope that you will hope for the joy of the Lord through suffering, and we pray in the name of the Lord that you will become believers who experience true joy and peace through the place of suffering through faith.
United Prayer>>
Today, I give thanks and glory to God who has chosen and called us like little children.
As we hold on to the word of God that has been given to us today, we pray, so that we may remember the grace of God who prepares true joy for us through the pain and tribulation that is given to us.
You have chosen us, who lived as slaves of sin, as children of God, so that we may turn our backs on the world and live a life of glory by obeying only God.
God, who said that I can handle all things through the one who gives me strength, help us to carry out the precious mission God has given us, and to become the saints of faith who experience the miracles of God with the eyes of faith.
May we not all live in the world and follow the ways of the world and the providence of the world, but all of us who follow the providence of God in your way.
We pray in the holy name of Jesus, who saved us with the price of his blood by pouring out all his water and blood for us. Amen
The Lord's Prayer: Together
[Personal Prayer]
1. Let all the saints receive the filling of the Holy Spirit through the morning prayer meeting for Lent.
2. Help us to understand the deep meaning of Christ's suffering through the morning prayer meeting in Lent.
3. Let us lay our transgressions and sins before God and enjoy freedom from sin.
4. Let the fire of revival burn in our Church of Service through sharing and serving.