Title: Knowing God / Romans 1:18-23
'Why are you preaching?' I don't know if you think these questions are only necessary for preachers. However, in the church community, there are not only those who preach, but there are those who hear the sermon. If so, there is no doubt that it is an issue that not only preachers but all of us today should think about.
However, the modern church is very difficult to answer this question. Generally
Preaching is thought to be done to edify unbelievers and educate existing members of the church.
do. However, preaching does not edify unbelievers, but edify existing members of the church.
I don't do it for flesh.
Because just because humans teach the Word of God, an unbeliever becomes a believer.
Nor does one who does not have faith have faith. In other words,
Religion is not a way to edify or become a believer. make a believer
To have faith is what the Holy Spirit does with the Word of God. this
In this regard, we need to think about what preaching is and why we do it.
Preaching is the preaching of the words of the Bible. But the problem is, I like the cross
The fact is that humans do not exist on this earth. That's why preaching to this human world
It is to confirm who belongs to the Lord through means. In other words, the word
When the word of God (not the preacher's) is accepted when preached, it belongs to the Lord.
If you don't, you belong to the devil.
Preaching is the work of dividing by the Word. Therefore, a sermon is
It is to open the writings and confirm that the preachers and church members have no faith with each other. not so
Reconfirm the standard of which side you belonged to, the real God and the fake God.
should be what
For this reason, the preacher thoroughly delivers the cross, the core of the gospel, according to the words of the Bible.
is to go. When only the cross was preached, in response to the Word, those who received the Holy Spirit
The book of Revelation is repentance. Only then can the real God and the fake Ha
God, the real Jesus and the fake Jesus are distinguished and where you belong
is going to do it.
In this regard, we gather again today to listen to the word of God. and gin
God, the task of confirming who the real Jesus is is the same as me and you.
that's what you have to do. Why should it be like this?
Verse 19 of the text says, “The things that may be known of God are revealed in them.”
All. Everyone knows about God. But what about that God?
What kind of God are you? Verse 21 says, “Knowing God, but not glorifying Him.”
Knowing God, but not glorifying him, not giving thanks, but also foolish
The darkened heart and the glory of the incorruptible God
It is said that he changed it into an idol in the form of Ludge.
This is the God known to man. Humans say they know God, but
We do not serve God and glorify Him, but rather serve Him as God.
It declares that they will be transformed into the image of a corruptible idol. So human
The known God is a false God and an idol.
To this extent, humans are active toward idols. Just turning away from God
no. It's not just that God doesn't like it. very aggressively
make it an idol. This is the human form and also our form.
is.
That is why, as I said in the last sermon, knowing God is a blessing.
not negative. Because of our sins, we idolize God no matter what we do.
It is a temper to change to Yamaha. I believed in God yesterday and I know God
Don't brag about it. The God we learned yesterday is already an idol within us
is being changed to
To make him my God, a God that is completely different from the God of the Bible
I have no idea. Therefore, everything that is not revealed from God's side is fake. woo
This is why Lee should read the Bible every day and listen to the sermons.
We have to reflect on the Bible every day to see who the God spoken of in the Bible is.
This is because he is an expert in creating fake Gods.
Then, what kind of God is the God revealed in the Bible? In verse 17, we have already considered
As revealed in the Bible, the God revealed is the God of righteousness. by faith by faith
He is the God who makes it happen. He said that he was Jesus Christ. Jesus Gri
Christ appeared in righteousness. No one can come to faith unless the righteousness of heaven is given.
can't reach
Then, how can we know the righteousness of God? right through Jesus Christ
Only then can we know the righteousness of God. Only Jesus Christ is the standard of righteousness.
In other words, because only Jesus is the righteousness, Jesus Christ is my Lord.
If you believe, from that moment on, you have to think and see from the perspective of Jesus. Jesus
We need to examine how God saw God and revealed Himself.
When God's wrath fell on the cross, Jesus said on the cross,
you wrote “Eli, Eli, Ramasabachthani,” translated as “My God, I
Your God, why hast thou forsaken me?' (Matthew 27:46). here jesus
called God "my God." in Matthew 26:39 et seq.
Even in the prayer in Gethsemane, Jesus said, “My Father.”
However, in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7), Jesus taught his disciples to pray.
He told them to call, "Our Father in heaven!" in the context before and after
In the same way, the disciples say, “Your father” (Matthew 6:1,8,15,) or “Your father” (Matthew 6:4,6,18).
you said to them
When Jesus, who had said so, was carrying the cross before the cross,
declared "My Father" or "My God". here our perplexity
There is excitement and there is embarrassment. Why? Jesus said to his disciples, "Heaven
He said to call us “our Father who is in
Because God has spoken as my Father.
These words that Jesus cried out while receiving the wrath of the cross, David wrote the psalm
This is what is confessed in 22:1. God Will Fulfill His Covenant Through David
Because of the covenant, David was chased away by Saul and lived in pain.
I had to The words that came out at that time were, “My God, my God, how
have you forsaken me?” David's cry was simply
It's not because of the loneliness and pain given to me.
David's suffering and suffering were given because of the Davidic covenant.
In order to understand me properly, I must understand it within the covenant. From this point of view
The suffering in the Davidic covenant was in Jesus, the fulfillment of the covenant.
So Jesus said on the cross, “My God, my God, why am I
Have you forsaken me?” is not simple. Jesus is my God.
The declaration contained the meaning of rejecting the God of men. humans
Not the God of God, but Jesus' own God, and Jesus' own Father.
Does it mean that the God who crucified Jesus is not the God of men?
All. Indeed, the God who crucified His Son is not our God, but Jesus
He was the Father and God of Christ. He crucified the Son,
The God who sent out wrath was the God whom Jesus Christ looked to.
All.
Jesus said that the blood shed on the cross is the blood of the new covenant (Luke
22:20). God made a covenant with Jesus and his Son Jesus Christ
You have fulfilled all aspects of your promise through Therefore, my servant whom Jesus called
I am the God in the new covenant.
That is, we can meet at the cross, the field of the new covenant, and we can only call on the cross.
It means God. In other words, the old man died on the cross with the Lord and
Only those who have been resurrected as a new person with you and who are in the same fate as the Lord
It means that we can call God God together with the Lord.
In this regard, the prayers that Jesus spoke and taught in the Sermon on the Mount are ten.
You have your own case in mind. Therefore, the believer calls God our Father
Is it possible only in the cross to be able to pray while calling
All. He who is one with the Lord calls with the Lord my God and our Father.
is what you can
Therefore, the words that Jesus said to be my God and my God are simple
It wasn't beauty. Even now, whenever we think of the cross, my God, my
The voice of the Lord who calls you God should hit your ears. only then unconditionally
The God of man who thinks of himself as his own God will be broken.
The God we know is an idol and a fake God, so we break up every day.
and must be annihilated. And through the new word, the Lord of the cross is the Lord of salvation
It is something that must be believed and confessed. When we do that, we become saints
It means that the Holy Spirit works that way toward his people.
Do not insist that the God I know is the God revealed in the Bible.
Open the Bible every day and see God crucified. through a sermon
Please check the week. The selfish logic of 'God loved me'
There is never a place to sit.
So, don't be rude to say that God loves you. god me
Those who claim that they love you are not saints, but God only loves Jesus Christ.
I acknowledge that Jesus is the only God that can be called my God.
Self is a saint.
In Genesis chapters 1 and 2, we see that in the first place man was created to glorify God.
You can see that you have received it. But Adam's heart to become like God
Because of this, he became a sinner who turned the glory of God into a corruptible idol. That
Therefore, the mere fact that God created all things alone is no excuse for human beings.
He is a man who cannot and has nothing to say before God (verse 20). Human Religion is God
attacking God with the knowledge of
It is ignorance and foolishness that are strangely transforming. That is darkness.
The foolishness of the 'Korean Society of Creation Sciences', which refutes the theory of evolution and proves the theory of creation, is also the same.
It is a bracket. Just because we prove it with creationism, we do not see Jesus on the cross.
is. Jesus on the cross, God who threw his son on the cross proves in creationism
It is not to be revealed, but to be revealed and shown only through the Word.
It is not something to brag about and praise for being religious. In vain with that religion
Human beings have the habit of creating fake Gods every day. today
It is us who stand in the way of blocking the truth of God with ungodliness and unrighteousness. that
Because of this, I am saddened, denying myself and living with the feeling of dying on the cross.
how?