Title: Let's Be Guided by the Holy Spirit
2012.1.1 Sunday morning worship service
Bible: Galatians 5:16, 18
Title: Let the Holy Spirit Guide You
Gal 5:16-18 ‘16. I tell you, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh, 18. If you are led by the Spirit, you will not be under the law' - Amen.
When Jesus was on the earth, the Jewish lawyers at that time were well versed in the knowledge of the Old Testament, but they did not take the truth to heart and did not reveal it at all in their lives. Even today, there are many people in Christianity who only lead a religious life, regardless of salvation or the Holy Spirit. If you look at the past of the Jews, you should be a mirror and not be destroyed.
So, I would like to welcome the new year with the theme of <Let's be guided by the Holy Spirit>.
1. Christian truth can be realized and followed by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit
Biblical truth, that is, Christian truth, is recognized as true truth when it goes beyond academic values and religious limits and demonstrates the voice of the living God as it is in today's life. The knowledge you know with your head is only memorized, and cannot be the truth in itself.
In order to properly recognize Jesus, who is the body of truth, we must first receive the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 12:3 “…No one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit” (John 3:3-8)
John 16:13 “But when the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth…”
The proof of receiving the Holy Spirit is not external mystical things or tongues, but it is the realization of the truth, longing for it, and earnest will to live according to the truth reverently. The first evidence of receiving the Holy Spirit is to long for the truth.
2. We must be filled with the Holy Spirit because we pray
To the disciples who could not heal the demon-possessed child, Mark 9:29 “He said to them, ‘This kind cannot go out by anything but prayer.’
Luke 11:13 “…will not your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
At first, the Galatians received the right faith under the influence of the Holy Spirit, but by the time they received this letter, their faith withered and without the guidance of the Holy Spirit, they became theoretical people again with the legalistic mindset they believed in in the past.
Galatians 3:3 “Are you so foolish? Have you begun with the Spirit and now finish with the flesh?”
That is why Paul says, “If you are led by the Spirit, you will not be under the law,” Galatians 5:18 says, in order to be freed from the curse of the law and foolish theoreticalism only when you are guided by the Holy Spirit.
In the early days of the Korean church, the knowledge was weak due to the lack of a system to learn the Bible, but because of earnest prayer, the Holy Spirit helped us realize what the life of a believer is like in our daily lives, so it became a light in society by well demonstrating the repentance movement and godly life. The current church problem is not because of lack of knowledge, but without the influence of the Holy Spirit and full of words of human comfort, so that we cannot receive the truly mysterious spiritual grace that God gives us, and the size of the church, the method of worship, and even the center of dialogue as believers have become secularized. .
The problem is that even if we listen a lot, there is no effect because the prayer life is absolutely insufficient on the excuse that the members are busy.
Learning is enough now, but prayer is not enough. In 2012, I want to spend a lot of time in earnest prayer to receive the guidance of the Holy Spirit. So, I pray that you and I will become people of the Holy Spirit and show the true spiritual life of the saints.