Title: Leaders Established by Jehovah
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1 Samuel 10:17-24 The leader established by the Lord
On the 19th, we voted to elect the 17th President. You and I, 12 people came out saying that I was the right person, but how can you dare to self-proclaim yourself as the right person? There is no legal flaw in the world law as there is a system for running for election. However, the greater the people, the more they fell, but they refused and gave in. (Moses, etc.) The election law for church staff is determined by secret ballot (majority or two-thirds) according to internal and external qualifications, not the candidacy system. So is the spirit of the Bible. Today, through the process of establishing King Saul in this chapter, you can learn how to vote and how to accept the results after voting. God secretly anointed Saul through Samuel to establish him first, and to elect the people (approval after death). When Samuel called the people to Mizpah and brought out a thousand men from each tribe, the tribe of Benjamin was chosen, and when the tribe of Benjamin was brought out according to their families, the family of Madri was chosen, and Saul the son of Kish was chosen from among them. . However, not all people (tribes) liked it.
Voting is not about choosing a good person according to my desires, but about finding out who God has already appointed during prayer and ratifying it after death. Therefore, it is not bad if the person I chose does not work, I am sorry because I did not know God's will well, and it is difficult to admit that I did not choose. Every time we vote, we have to decide whether we should vote for who we should be, or if we cannot be now, but still have to look at the person and choose for the future, but we need to find the chosen one of God. As gold money is originally hidden deep in the closet, good people do not come out. (Worse leads to positive change - Cresham's Law) Abstaining is also one of the rights. . I am not the one who voted in this election. I excluded everything (Gakyeon delay, etc.) and prayed for the election, and I saw the possibility as I expected (I think it was God's will). The people of the world cannot do this because they do not know God. When people with the same sentiments and greed vote, leaders have no choice but to follow suit.
That is why the members of the congregational council, the highest decision-making body of the church, must be unblemished members of the church. Because when I am baptized, I die and I confess that I am controlled by the Holy Spirit who fully obeys by accepting Jesus Christ as my Lord and my King, so I vote and make decisions according to the Lord's will. ‘Only God rules the conscience’--The first article of “Freedom of Conscience” in the Constitutional Politics of the Presbyterian Church is a declaration that no one but God can control the conscience that God has given to humans. In that sense, ‘a conscience not governed by God is not a conscience, and freedom not to obey God is not freedom and indulgence’. Therefore, since the people of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires, they do not live according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit (Galatians 5:24). Only such people are true Christians. And when human beings do all their actions, they must immediately know what God's will and demands are.
In the first sentence of the Catechism, God’s purpose in creating man is declared to be “to glorify God and to enjoy him forever.” In the second, the word of God contained in the Old and New Testaments tells us how we can glorify God. He tells us that it is the only law that dictates whether we will enjoy him or not. In other words, the Bible, creeds, and catechism are God's laws that govern our fallen conscience. Fallen human beings interpret God's laws such as the Bible to be advantageous to them at will, and they are drawn to their own passions and desires and cannot live according to their conscience.
Dear saints, The reason why the country is so chaotic is that people who do not know this principle well and have fallen consciences, unite with greed, emotions, and power to only carry out their own claims. Knowing that 'the only one who rules your conscience is God', do not be attracted to external temptations, threats, affections and greed, follow the Holy Spirit and vote correctly while praying. shall.