Title: Let's Serve the Lord with Zeal
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They say that the passing of time is like walking in their teens, running in their 20s, riding a bicycle in their 30s, riding a motorcycle in their 40s, and riding a gacha in their 50s. They say that it is like taking an airplane and flying when you are in your 60s or 70s. Time is like Bupyeongcho, like floating clouds, like arrows, and like morning dew.
To grow old is to die. We never know when we will leave the world. I don't know how old I will live. Only God knows.
When we were born, God predestined the lifespan of each of us. As soon as they are born, they count each person's lifespan set by God backwards and run toward death. That is why, in the Bible, “Vanity and vanity, vanity and vanity, all things are vanity” five times in one verse, pointing to the useless life.
He also said that there is nothing new under the sun, and that he gave the heart of longing for eternity into man.
The Bible says, "The sinner does evil a hundred times, and he lives a long life. But I know for sure that it will not prosper for the sinner, but it will prosper for those who fear God." . He said, "Remember the Creator. This is man's duty." As we see in Catechism 1, man's supreme end is to glorify God and to please him forever.
The Apostle Paul said in Ephesians 5:16 that he wrote, 'Save the time'. Because ‘the times are evil’.
“Let us not be lazy in diligence, but be zealous and serve the Lord.”
Why should we be zealous and serve the Lord? Because the times are evil. The morning papers are full of all kinds of evil events. All kinds of extravagant incidents surprise us. The times are very bad.
The second reason why we should be zealous and serve the Lord is that the last days have come.
The Lord broke the word of the Second Coming many times. The Bible says that one day he will come suddenly and unexpectedly. Of course, you don't have to listen to the time and place, but let's think about it this way.
Imagine coming in September, not the October 1992 that the heretics of the time-limited apocalypse are talking about.
Imagine coming in August. Let's say you're coming during vacation in July. Imagine you are coming on Mother's Day in May. Let's say you are coming at Easter. Let's say you're coming in March when school starts. Let's say you are coming during the Chinese New Year in February. No, let's assume you're coming tonight. Are you ready?
If the Lord suddenly comes one day, will I be able to welcome it with my faith? That is why we must zealously serve the Lord. I hope that the determination to work hard when I believe that I can no longer lead a religious life like this will spring up. To this end, I will give you ten words.
First, let's work hard. refers to attendance. It is Holy Week. A student who attends well at school is an honor student, an employee who goes to work well at work is an exemplary employee, and a saint who does Holy Water Sunday well in the church is a first-class believer. God works in the gatherings of diligent gatherings.
Weekday worship services, evening worship services, early morning prayer meetings, and church-like gatherings should all be gathered with zeal. Gather hard, but come on time. You must fill in the front row rather than the back seat.
Second, learn hard. refers to education.
“Come, learn from me, and go and make disciples.”
We must come and learn. We must learn Jesus through the Word. You must be armed with the Word to be a child of God, but those who do not have the Word are children of the devil. You have to learn hard. The saints who get sleepy if they read obscene novels all night while reading the Bible, three chapters a day, in a year, they read both the Old and New Testaments and read more.
Third, let's work hard. say prayer. The Lord did not teach us anything else, but he told us to pray like this and taught the Lord's Prayer. You taught me phrases. Looking at this, it seems that the disciples of the Lord did not know how to pray bluntly at that time or now, and they found it very difficult to pray. That is why I wonder if the Lord has taught us an exemplary prayer.
On the other hand, since prayer is the most important thing above all else, I think that he may have sent us a prayer to keep up with this example without adding more testimony. So, for those who find it difficult to pray, write it down on a piece of paper and read it. Instead of giving more testimony, write it down on a piece of paper and recite it. Not being good at prayer is not a fault. It is a transgression to be reproved by God. If you learn, learn and pray, gracious prayer will come out. To do that, you need to attend a lot of prayer meetings.
When the Lord prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, the disciples could not overcome their drowsiness and fell asleep. Do you know what the Lord said? “Watch and pray so that you may not fall into temptation.” Prayers that are not offered diligently will be put to the test. I am tempted in prayer. That is why prayer is said to be a kind of hard labor. It is said that the Lord prayed so hard that drops of blood, not sweat, came out of his forehead.
Fourth, let's sing hard. This is a hymn. The fact that the voice is not the problem and the singing itself is meaningful. It's not called technology. It is by prayer. A hymn without prayer is like a lullaby; A hymn without prayer creates only emotions, and a prayer without a hymn produces only complaints.
It is very sad that there is no praise in the worship service on Sunday night. It is like having rice but no side dishes. Let's make it possible to praise even if only two or three gather together. Let's glorify God by doing a lot of family hymns and institutional hymns.
The Lord said through the prophet Isaiah, "I made this people to sing praises." He said that the purpose of creating us is to praise the Lord. You sing well in worldly songs and foreign songs well, but do you say that only church songs are noisy? Yes, because there is no prayer. We call, but let us call with zeal.
Fifth, serve diligently. It says service. It's not just restaurant service. People must also serve. Serve each other. Let us not be trifled with, and let us not neglect our office. For those of you who serve in the restaurant with cold water, let's work hard because it's Sunday.
No matter how large a church is, the permanent office holders of that church are not elected with any social power. A certain president's wife is a member of the Gyeongju Department. At home, she is the boss's wife, who does not put a drop of water on her fingertips while leaving the police department and staff. However, after the portrait is established, even in the middle of winter, I go to the cemetery to take care of people. I make coffee and wash dishes while blowing in the wind on the mountaintop. That's why I entrusted the office to him in the council. If you just sit with your arms rolled up without working, no matter how high your social status may be, you won't get votes. Loyalty, service, and service are recognized. Let's serve each other diligently.
Sixth, let's work hard together. It speaks of friendship. There are two ways to unite.
One is district worship and the other is attendance at each institution. Be sure to have a local worship service. How happy would it be if the Lord came to the local worship service? Join each institution. You have to work hard together. If we unite, we live; if we disperse, we die.
Seventh, let's work hard. I mean architecture. A temple is not built only with words, nor is it built with a decree. Words should be followed by prayer, and deeds should be followed by action.
There is a saying, ‘Words are prayers, and actions are offerings’. This means that it is not possible to pray only once if you speak many times, and no matter how determined you are, it is worse than making an offering. Where there is a will, there is a way.
Every year at the end of the year, high school graduates hold a first birthday party, treats to food, and a bazaar. When I selected the settlement of this year's event, it was hundreds of thousands of won. How valuable have you been? Traditionally, the money spent at the bazaar was used to buy the supplies for the church, but it is said that they came and donated it as a donation for the construction. Let's work hard! So, how good would it be to return the completion of the temple construction to God this year and receive grace by completing the construction?
It takes our determination to make our dreams come true.
Immanuel Kant said:
"You can do it, because you should do it."
It means 'You can do it. Because you must do it.” We can do it because we must do it.
Eighth, let's work hard. It says salvation. A person who is good at salvation is a person who is good at temperance.
The expenditure of one's life is very sensible and sparing. So, you save money with the money left over. The president of a certain university drives a small car by himself and sets up the president's office in an office of about 3 or 4 pyeong to do his work. And the president is a special 1st salary, and he receives the salary he received when he was a professor and checks the approval one by one himself. ‘What kind of money is this? Isn't that the money that students who came up from selling cattle and rice fields in the countryside paid for their tuition while in high school? I have to use it sensibly’ and operated it efficiently. So, last year we hired 75 new professors, and this year we will hire 100 new people, so we have a belief that we will secure 90% per student. Even though the campus is small, administrative computers are computerized throughout the building after the extension.
A savior knows how to restrain himself. At a time when over-consumption is rampant, we need to be thrifty and focus on relief.
In some neighborhoods in Seodaemun, market baskets are used instead of plastic, and in a pharmacy in Bucheon, used batteries and vitamins are exchanged. To reduce environmental pollution, a local restaurant in Gwangyang-kyo is working to help others in need by using spoon pockets instead of disposable chopsticks and saving disposable soaps, razors, and toothbrushes.
Ninth, let's work hard. It says evangelism. Evangelism is our earthly mission. We must evangelize because we received evangelism and believed in Jesus. There are many weak institutions we need to help and evangelism targets around us. There are three ways. The first is direct evangelism. Second, donate. The third is to pray.
Last tenth, let's give hard work. It's an offering. Tithing life. The standard of giving is tithing.
Please keep this in mind.
It was called ‘Jininsa Daecheonmyeong’. Let's do our best and wait for God's will. So, I pray that you will become saints who accomplish the will of God with ten zeal. Amen.
(1992.1.5)