Title: Killing and Saving
Contents
Whether in the past or now, the ultimate goal of science is people. Humans create science, and that science provides more convenient living conditions and methods for humans.
As we enter the 21st century, life science is the most serious emerging field. In academic terms, it is called the Human Genome Project.
The Bible says that God made man out of dust and breathed life into his nostrils, and he became a living soul. But modern science says that humans can create life.
A father created a son through gene cloning in order to create a son just like him.
The problem is that the son will be twins with the father because he has the same genes as his father. In that case, the question arises as to whether the son should call his father brother or father.
Faith and science are not in opposition or conflict. The reason is that science is also a product of God-given wisdom and is a work of art.
And if there is science in faith, philosophy, economy, and politics, then they can walk the right way.
And Christians must find the beginning of life and the principle of life in the Bible.
Acts 17:25 says, “He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things.” Genesis 2:7 says, “The Lord God wiped out man with dust and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. He became a living spirit.”
God made man out of dust and gave him life, breath, and all things.
Hannah was originally infertile. Because of this, she did not receive the love of her husband properly and had to live with the outside world.
He made this position of himself and fervently prayed to God in the temple every day. The son that was born in response was Samuel the great leader.
This is the prayer she offered to God after she gave birth to Samuel.
Let's look at some important points.
1. He kills and makes alive.
Verse 6 says, “The Lord kills and gives life; he brings down into the grave and raises up.”
Salvation and destruction, heaven and hell, are in the sovereignty of God.
Luke 12:5 says, “I will show you whom you should fear, fear him, who after he has killed has authority to cast into hell.”
It is easy to sin. But it is difficult to get forgiveness for that sin.
There was a person who was convicted of murder with a momentary outburst of anger and was imprisoned in prison. In prison, he repented of his sins, repented, and began to believe in Jesus. His personality and life, his thoughts and attitudes began to change. At the age of 19, he was released as a special envoy. Sin was made in an instant, and pardon took 19 years.
The disease takes a moment. But fixing it doesn't fix it instantly.
Failure is possible in a moment. However, recovery is not instantaneous.
Dying is also a moment. But raising the dead is impossible.
Who raises the dead?
But the text says that God raises the dead and leads those who go to hell to heaven.
In John 11, the story of Lazarus is recorded. Jesus visited the tomb of Lazarus, who had been dead for four days. His sister Martha said it already smelled rotten.
The Lord said.
"Your brother will rise again."
"I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me will live even if he dies, and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
"Move the stone away"
“Lazarus, come out.”
"Let him go and let him go!"
No one could save the rotten Lazarus. Neither Pilate, nor Herod the Great, nor the Sanhedrin, nor the priests, could raise Lazarus from the dead. Only Jesus did it.
That's right. This event proves that only Jesus, who is God, can raise the dead, save those who are falling into destruction, and deliver those who are going to hell.
Who saves and who kills? Only God who created life can do it.
We talked about life science for a while before, but when we search for somatic cells, remove bad or faulty genes, and clone humans with only good genes to create the best human beings, at least, humans will say, “We made people. We did what God did. We can take the place of God,” and they will fall into pride.
But the genes themselves. In other words, we must acknowledge that the seeds and roots of life are created by God.
And you can make clones, but you can't stop that human being, who will one day get sick, grow old and die.
More importantly, genetic identification or embryo cloning cannot save that person from sinning, going to hell, and perishing.
In other words, even cutting-edge science cannot solve the problem of human sin and the salvation of souls. It is something only God can do to save souls from death and drop those who are about to perish into hell.
We need to stand before the simple and clear truth here.
Who lives and who dies? Who will be saved and who will perish? Who goes to heaven and who goes to hell?
If you believe in Jesus, you will live, be saved, and enter the eternal world. But if you do not believe, anyone will die, be abandoned, and go to hell.
In Revelation 18 we see the final judgment. Those who practiced sexual immorality and luxuries weep and beat their breasts (18:9). The wealthy and wealthy chaebol weep and mourn (18:11, 15). The captains, sailors, and rich people who enjoyed traveling around the world weep and mourn and shout (18:17-19).
The reason is that Babylon, which boasted of its cutting-edge civilization and was atrocious, will be destroyed and God's judgment is at hand.
You must believe in Jesus.
You have to believe right.
Instead of knowing about Jesus, you must accept Jesus and believe in His words and live.
2. It makes you prosper and makes you ruin.
Verse 7 says, “The Lord makes poor and makes rich, he humbles and exalts”, and in verse 8, “He raises the poor from the dust, and lifts the needy from the dung heap, and makes them sit with nobles, to take possession of it.”
In a nutshell, it means that he takes control of the rise and fall and provides the providence.
Hannah was a barren woman who was despised and despised. God exalted him and made him the mother of Samuel, a great religious leader, spiritual leader, political leader, and national leader. Samuel, whom Hannah gave birth to, was still a baby. But Hannah saw such faith and vision through Samuel.
Big doesn't mean strong. In terms of the size of the country, Assyria, Babylon, and Egypt were larger. But the small nation of Israel defeated them both.
Good grades don't make you successful. The late Chairman Ju-Young Jung, who passed away, had only elementary school education.
The Bible teaches that success and failure, rise and fall are entirely God's blessings. This is something I heard a while ago.
It is that women's rouge color is closely related to the national economy. When it became fashionable for women to wear pink or red rouge, the Korean economy was on an upward trend. However, as the women began to apply dark and dark rouge, the IMF exploded and the economy began to roll down.
In the case of Japan, the bubble economy boomed, and when the economy was booming, looking around the parking lot or downtown Tokyo, the car was all white. However, from one day, the color of the car started to change to black, and the Japanese economy began to hit bottom.
These are just stories with no basis or statistics. The important thing is that if success and failure, abundance and poverty, development and regression can be determined and changed by color, there will be no one in this world who will fail and no one will fail.
It is said that many politicians, high-ranking officials, chaebols, and celebrities are looking for fortune tellers or philosophers of fate. This is because they determine fate, foretell good luck and failure, and teach the way to prevent it.
There was a famous philosopher of fate. He was a person who had a lot of customers and built a reputation.
He was a person who knew the four orders, contemplation, and fate like a ghost and gave prescriptions according to the blessings.
However, there were cases in which one's own fortune-telling or fate diagnosis was wrong. There have been cases where people who are destined to perish, but who are sick and need to lie down, are walking in good health and living well even though they are dying. So I did some research on their background and background.
And what they discovered was that they all believed in Jesus. He wondered about that Jesus. Jesus who turns poverty into abundance, Jesus who turns suffering into joy, Jesus who turns failure into success, Jesus who turns despair into hope, and Jesus who turns death into life. So, while studying Jesus and studying the Bible, I threw away everything and came to believe in Jesus.
Do expensive talismans change your fate?
Does it prevent bad luck?
Does modern medicine or political background make me happy and healthy?
no. God does.
Alexander of Greece was a hero who built a great empire from Greece to Persia and India. Even during the war, he would snort and sleep whenever he lay in bed. One day the servant asked. “How can the great king be able to sleep so peacefully and so deeply in the midst of such danger?” His answer was, “Because I have General Parmenion by my side to protect me.” General Parmenion was Alexander's commander-in-chief.
In Psalm 4:8, David sang, “I will lie down in peace, and I will sleep; the Lord alone makes me dwell in safety.”
Prosperity and failure, success and failure, success and failure, fall and recovery, all these things must be in God.
And when we believe in it, peace comes, and only when peace comes, prayers, hymns, and thanksgiving will come.
Let us praise the God who gives life, salvation, eternal life, success and recovery, and the Lord who gives light eyes.