Title: Kyrist?
Contents
2009.3.29 Sunday Worship in Christ Jesus
Text: Ephesians 2:1-10
On July 2, 1978, 39-year-old uncle Bill Quillan and 19-year-old nephew David, rented a small boat and set sail for the Galapagos Islands from San Diego Harbor on their summer vacation.
However, on the way, the ship was overturned by a tropical typhoon. The boat began to sink little by little. And I saw sharks circling all around me, as if I was on the verge of a disaster. They quickly took out their lifeboats and climbed into the lifeboats.
The story continues a little further, but after reading this true story, I realized one thing.
I discovered that today's text is the same as the lesson.
Verse 5 with Christ, verse 6 in Christ Jesus, verse 7 in Christ Jesus, verse 10 in Christ Jesus...
I thought it would be safe to be on the ship called the world, but when a storm rages in my life, the world overturns me and makes me flounder as if I was drowning in the sea of life.
In such a crisis situation, our lifeboat is Jesus Christ.
Life can be saved if you are in Jesus Christ. You must be in Christ Jesus.
Text Ephesians 2:1 - 3 This is our state before we were saved.
Or there are people who go to church but are still in this state.
The world is an abstract concept that can be understood as a place outside the grace of God, or outside Jesus Christ. It can be understood as a place where we live according to our greed, a place where we live buried in the values of ordinary people. But if we live in such a world, we can sense that our souls are not nourished and thirsty. So at some point I realize that I am sick and dying.
But the problem is that ordinary people realize it too late.
So many people give up. They are hard-hearted and refuse to accept Jesus Christ. So, sinking ships, with the world, plunge into the depths of the abyss.
However, Jesus Christ saved us from the eye of the typhoon of the world through His sacrifice.
And what does the following verses 4 to 10 say? It explains the salvation of the saints through Christ well. Please pay special attention to verse 8.
It means that we have been saved “by grace and through faith.”
what do you mean? These words teach us that God loved us with His one-sided grace and unconditional love.
Verse 9 says that no one can boast of it, because it is not of works. Herein lies the meaning of our salvation.
Therefore, we only need to be in Jesus Christ.
That is the clear promise of Jesus Christ to us.
There is an expression among Korean proverbs, 'My nose is small'.
‘I can’t afford to look back at other people right now. First of all, let’s live with me.”
It means that I have a hard time living, but I have no time to think about others.
I feel that way more in an era when the global recession is expanding and deepening like now.
But it is said that the poor know the hearts of those who are poorer than themselves.
The present generation is living in a world that feels poverty amid abundance.
After the war, Japan and Korea passed a time when it was not difficult to sustain life due to lack of daily necessities or food. But now we live in a world that is too materially rich. However, it seems to me that it is more difficult to live now than it was then. And that's why suicides are on the rise.
Jesus knows our spiritual poverty better than anyone.
He is the one who knows who I am today better than anyone. I know all too well the fact that I can't help myself with the problems of my soul and the problems of my future.
So he took courage, came to this earth, and decided to carry the cross.
The gospel song I heard when I first came to Japan expressed that precious truth well.
ああんだ人ががががあんだ人がいる
べて no heavy load
The key word for dead
あああああがえraretta is
命に?
kirist が十字架で dead だだああああああが生 Kiruta
ああんだ人ががががあんだ人がいる
べて no heavy load
あなたを愛してるkara あnataを愛してるkara
There is no greater emotion for me than that Jesus Christ died for me to save me, and that I lived.
Here is love, not that we loved God, but that God made us
because He loved Him and sent His Son as a propitiation for our sins (1 John 4:10).
What are we? They are proud of themselves as if they are truly great, but at some point they realize that they are infinitely small and insignificant. In other words, there are times when you realize your limits.
The Lord did not call us because we had the power to be selected by Jesus. because
So did Jesus' disciples.
If Jesus had chosen twelve disciples as executives to form a new organization and asked a management consultant to examine the abilities of each of them, what kind of answer would you have received? It's probably going to be something like this.
Jesus, the son of Joseph of the Nazarene Carpentry Workshop, reviewed the resumes of twelve people you commissioned, collected psychological tests and vocational aptitude tests, and put them into the computer to draw the results.
Typically, they are underqualified as executive employees of the new organization you are planning. Education is too low and experience is insufficient.
They do not have a sense of group and lack a cooperative spirit, making them unsuitable as business managers. Simon Peter lacks emotional stability and has a very radical personality.
Andrew is, in a word, incompetent. No one can lead others.
Brothers James and John, the sons of Sebadah, are the ones who will put personal interests aside from corporate interests. Thomas is negative about everything, he only asks questions and has no momentum.
Matthew is a man who will do anything for his own benefit. James, son of Alphaeus and Thaddeus, these two men, are infected with radical anxieties aimed at social revolution, which would be detrimental to the moderate group of yours. Of the twelve people you have recommended, only one is qualified to give you a positive answer. This is Judas Iscariot. He is capable and capable, has a wealth of social knowledge, and has the sensibility and judgment of a keen businessman. He is also a sociable person who can make contact with the upper class. Full of strong motivation and motivation.
Therefore, this management consulting firm recommends only one Judas, and we recommend that the remaining agents be found among others.
However, in actual history, the eleven people who laid the groundwork for the church, a new organization, and dominated the world history of 2,000 years were of course disqualified, and rather the capable Judas was eliminated.
There is only one answer to this contradiction. They were unqualified in every way, but they were people who carried the cross according to the command of Jesus, "Take up my cross and follow me." That one thing changed themselves and changed society and the world.
To become a pastor, evangelists took an exam and had an interview.
"Evangelist, who is the main character of the book of Job?" The evangelist seems to be asking a very natural question
"So, the sermons are only like this. I think that the main character of the book of Job is Job, so even if we read the Bible, we do not understand and do not get the message. How is the main character of the book of Job Job? It is God. Or Jesus. Abraham, David, and the disciples are all extras. Reading the Bible like this makes the message clearer."
Isn't it just reading the Bible? Who do you think is the protagonist in our lives?
The protagonist of our lives is always Jesus.
Jesus is our life and Lord. If this is clear, the path of life and the answer to the problem will be clear. This is the clear reason why we need to be in Jesus Christ.
The Bible says that there is only life in Jesus Christ.
Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14:6)
This expression “in Christ”, one of Paul’s characteristic expressions, contrasts with “in Adam” in Romans 5.
Mankind began with Adam, and through Adam sin and death came.
But in Jesus Christ means a new life of freedom and life.
The word “in Christ Jesus” refers to beings in existential unity who share in death and resurrection.
There is a mysterious secret in the cross.
Through the text that contrasts well with the image of me before I was saved and the figure after I was saved,
I hope you will quietly reflect on what the grace of the Lord is like during Lent.
I want you to take a time of gratitude with a reverent heart. And I bless you in the name of the Lord to welcome the morning of the resurrection with joy.