Title: Judgment and Remnant of the World
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Bible Reading: 24:1-24 Title: The Judgment and Remnant of the World
This text is about 'God's judgment on the world'. God's judgment will be an inevitable event in history, and God's love for the saints is in the background of this judgment. Because of the judgment, the saints go to heaven according to the judgment, and the sinners go to hell.
God's judgment is based on justice and equality.
1. The appearance of this earth for judgment becomes empty and barren. Humans live on the ground. The land is a symbol of abundance. However, the value of its existence is lost.
Because of the sins of mankind, the earth was also cursed, and the final judgment for sin made the earth mournful.
It's possible.
2. The Prophet said that when God judges this humanistic world, all the cultures that people idolized will be paralyzed and lose their meaning. (Verses 7-9)
1) The meaning of the things you were looking for will disappear. (Verse 7) - It is indifferent to spiritual matters and to the truth.
The pursuits are worthless, and the lives of those who live only for material abundance.
The ultimate look.
2) The meaning of the things you enjoyed disappears. (Verse 8) - We will break the gods of the pleasure culture.
3) The functions of the things you depended on are paralyzed. (Verse 9) - To forget the fear of judgment
You try to drink strong liquor, but it doesn't work.
3. The text of 14-16 is that a small group of God's people left behind through God's providence
It depicts praising Jehovah. The meaning of 'remnant' in the text is
1) refers to survivors. - Those who remain after the judgment are the grains of yesterday.
2) It refers to the faithful people. - Those who have kept the Lord's laws and faithfully kept their faith.
3) It refers to the chosen one. - It speaks of God's merciful grace.
4. To become a remnant
1) You must obey the Word.- The result of obedience to God is to receive His love.
You will have wisdom and become his people. Noah, Lot, and Zerubbabel were all obedient.
Therefore, they became a 'remnant'.
2) You must trust God. -Many people in the world are concerned with what they can see, namely power, wealth,
They ask for people, etc. But they are like dust blown away by the wind.
We must always set our present address in God and live a life of trust in Him.
3) We must keep the incision of faith. - Hearing the slander of many lives
It is very difficult to keep it. Moreover, if you buy it with slander, it will come from all directions.
It is not easy to overcome the hand of temptation.
Our ancestors of faith became 'remnants' by keeping the incision of faith.
4) The blessing that the remnant gets is to receive salvation and possess the kingdom of heaven.
5. Determination and prayer
1) I hope that you will be able to keep the incision of faith by being a remnant until the end of time.
2) 土: Received a special intercessory prayer request / For the life of the saints
Saints working hard to gather, / Saints praying, / Saints overflowing with love and grace
to mature spiritually, / mentally, / socially, / qualitatively in one's place of life.