Title: Kiss My Son!
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Sunday day sermon
Text: John 3:16-21
Title: Kiss My Son!
The Bible gives detailed instructions on the way for man to come before God.
First, the Israelites, who lived under the Law, were offered the way to go to God by going to the temple in Jerusalem for about 2,000 years, slaughtering cattle and sheep and offering sacrifices to God. They believed that if they zealously offered sacrifices to God according to the law, everyone would automatically come before God. However, since these are given as models, they are only shadows. But the Israelites did not think so.
However, despite the zeal of the people of Israel, at the end of the 2,000-year history of Israel, God says, “To believe in the Son whom I have sent is to believe in Me.” Indeed, from the point of view of the people of Israel, this is an absurd statement. “In spite of slaughtering cattle and sheep and offering sacrifices to God for about 2,000 years until now, they say that they have to believe in someone again.”
If God is the same for Christians today, all the acts of going to the chapel and worshiping in the name of Jesus until now are all just models. will it cost It would not be much different from that of the Jews of that time.
The Jews had no idea that going to the temple, slaughtering cattle and sheep, and offering sacrifices to God was a model. There were many scribes and lawyers studying the Bible at that time, but none of them knew this. Even at that time, I knew that the Messiah was coming, but I had no idea what the Messiah would do when he came. This is the hidden secret in the Bible.
The Gentiles who read the Bible today compare the people of Israel and say, “Everyone points out that they are foolish people who killed the Savior.” They say that they are saved because they believed in the Son sent by God. Did the Gentiles who believed in Jesus really come to complete salvation as they said? If this is true, then everything that says that God is fair in front of everyone is a lie. This is because the salvation process of the Israelites and Gentiles is too inconsistent.
The people of Israel offered sacrifices to God to die for 2,000 years, but they did not believe in the Son God had sent, and they fell far from salvation. In contrast, the Gentiles all lived their own lives without God's law, but one day, suddenly, they heard the preacher's words and believed in Jesus. And then it is said that everyone is saved. When comparing the lives of the people of Israel and the lives of the Gentiles, the process of reaching the salvation of the two peoples is very different.
God said that He is fair to all people. The Israelites offered sacrifices before God to die for 2,000 years, but they did not believe in His son, so they fell away from salvation. On the other hand, Gentiles were living in their own way without law. Not only is it not right, but how unfair would the Jews be in the basement?
But we must not doubt God's fairness. If God loses his impartiality, we will never believe in our salvation. If God gave the people of Israel the law and allowed them to live under it for about 2,000 years, then the same spiritual law should be given to the present-day Christians who have believed in Jesus and received the Holy Spirit to become spiritual Israelites, so that they can live under it for about 2,000 years. Then, in the same way before Christians, the Son of God must be sent so that those who believe in him can be saved, so that they are in line with the Jews.
But this fact is nothing we should be concerned about. When God sent the Holy Spirit not only to the Jews but also to Christians, He also gave them the spiritual law, so they lived under it for about 2,000 years. Christians may have been living a life without much thought until now, but the act of today's Christians going out to worship at chapels is also based on the spiritual law. If the Gentiles had not known that God lives by the Holy Spirit, would they have been worshiping until now?
Whereas Jews went to the temple to sacrifice cattle and sheep before God and tried to come before God, today's Christians go to chapels to worship in the name of Jesus and come before God. However, no one can fully come before God through these actions. If you leave, everyone will die on the spot. The reason is that all humans are sinners. This is why God sends His Son before mankind.
But God added laws to His people so that through the law the sins of men might be made more sinful. For example, is it easy for a person who has lived his life without God's law to confess that he is a sinner in front of his son? Or would it be easier for those who live under the law to confess that they are sinners before the Son of God? In theory, at least those who have lived under God's law are far more likely to confess to being sinners.
But the reality is not like that at all. Whether it is a law or a spiritual law, God-given laws require that you only look at your problems and prepare to believe in the Son. Rather, according to the law, Jews offered sacrifices and tried to be righteous by it, but they distanced themselves from the Son, and Christians today. They are drowning in the pride that everyone was 'saved' through the worship service they heard. If this happens, Christians, like Jews, will shun the Son whom God will send in the future. If this happens, the result will be completely different from what God intended.
A good example is that of the Jews. They did not believe in the Son whom God had sent because of the fact that they offered sacrifices before God according to the law, and thus they fell from salvation. But here again there are people who are walking the same path as the Jews. They are none other than present-day Christians living under the law of the Holy Spirit. Christians today are well aware from the Bible that no one can be saved by law. Even though they are well aware of this, Christians are once again trying to reach salvation by the law themselves.
As I said before, no one can attain complete salvation by law. The law is a useful law sent by God for the sole purpose of convincing people of their sins and making them believe in the Son. However, it would be foolish to use the law given for the purpose of self-awareness as a means of salvation.
The Jewish theologians at that time also knew that the Messiah was coming, but had no idea what he was going to do specifically. All they could think of was a vague expectation that “when the Messiah comes, he will set them free from Roman oppression.” But when Jesus was doing something completely different from what they thought, they eventually rejected him.
Likewise, most Christians today are well aware that Jesus is coming again. Because Jesus says so in the Bible. However, no one knows in detail what form Jesus will return to before the Gentiles and what he will do when he comes. If there is only one thing we know, it is a vague belief that when Jesus returns in the air, he will take those who have been saved into the air.
However, what Christians should not be mistaken for is that Jesus, who returns in the air, is speaking with the time in mind when he will come at the end of the world (the end of the world). Before Jesus returns to the air, He must come before the Christian people who live under the law of the Holy Spirit once more, and work to seal those who come out confessing that He is a sinner. Those who are sealed with wheat on earth will be raptured when Jesus returns in the air.
Jesus, who comes before the Gentiles, has the same external appearance as us now, but Christ is in him. That is why we cannot easily recognize who the Son of God is just by looking at people on the outside. The only way to recognize him is by those who humble themselves as sinners. Because the Son of God only comes to save sinners.
This is the secret of the Bible to the Gentiles. In the book of Revelation, it is said that no one can know this until the book sealed by the Lamb is opened. "Awake, I will go like a thief!" Now, when the Son of God is revealed to the world, the world will experience another great vortex.
Even now, disasters and disasters continue to happen every day in various parts of the world. But in the future there will be much greater tribulation and calamity than this. It is to tell us that God's judgment is imminent. Even through this tribulation, God is asking all humans to realize their sins and believe in the Son God has sent.
-He who has ears, let him hear and understand!-