Title: Life under Elementary School!
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Sunday day sermon
Text: Galatians 4:1-7
Title: Life Under Elementary School!
There was a king in a certain country, and when he continued to have only daughters, the king fell into deep sorrow. A son would have to be given to him to become an heir, but since the queen is only giving birth to a daughter, this is a big deal. If you look at the royal rule, it is the royal rule that you can never pass on the kingship to your daughter. So, reluctantly, the king takes many concubines and gives birth to children, but he still has only daughters from them.
Then one day, the queen hears the news that she is pregnant, and soon afterward, the queen gives birth to a son like a rice cake toad. The king cannot hide his joy. He was a son after a long wait, so the king must have felt that his son was more timid! The king orders that the baby, who will become the future king of the country, be looked after with utmost care. As time goes by, the baby starts to grow, and as the baby grows gradually, one by one, he learns the laws of the royal family, and above all, to become a king who rules the people well, he accumulates a lot of knowledge, and the people know how to count their hearts. must be a prince However, since the king cannot do so many things himself, the king has no choice but to entrust him to lowly servants.
The servant who is appointed as the little prince's teacher begins to teach the prince with all his might. Then one day, the king suddenly found the prince's room where he was studying. I was curious to see how the prince was studying. However, the teacher is embarrassed in front of the little prince and cannot properly handle the prince. As soon as the king returns to the palace, he gives an order to change the current teacher and to hire a strict teacher instead. A strict teacher treats the prince harshly as soon as he enters. It is to make students study harsher than the previous teacher. The prince threatens to warn his father and punish the teacher, but the teacher does not pretend to hear.
Then one day, the prince can't stand the harsh training of the strict teacher and tells his father, the king. Hearing his son's taunts, the king does not scold the teacher, but rather scolds him even more and sends him back. At the same time, the king orders that a teacher, who is known for being more harsh, should be adopted as the prince's teacher. The prince tried to complain about his injustice to his father, but he met a teacher who was much harsher than before, and as a result he had to undergo a very hard training. The prince naturally resents his father in this arduous training. The question is, when did you cherish and cherish me as a precious son, and why are you throwing yourself away like this now? As a prince who cannot understand his father's deep intentions, his dissatisfaction is on the verge of an explosion. But what to do! If you complain about your father, he will give you a much harsher ordeal than before, so you can't just complain about it.
The prince, realizing this fact, now gives up everything and listens to the teacher, no matter how strict, like a servant. Feeling that even his father was not interested in him anymore, the prince gave up all his rights as a prince and decided to live a normal life from now on, and went back to a lowly and low status like the rest of the world, drinking with them, drinking with them, and being poor They go home and try to sleep, and they try to flow here and there, using the sky as a roof and the earth as a blanket. In fact, I fell from the status of a prince, who had the momentum to even drop a bird, to that of a lowly and lowly poor in one day.
One day, while giving up everything, he receives an urgent message from the royal palace. The news is that you must enter the palace quickly. The prince rushes forward without knowing the English language, and the moment he sees his father Yi's face, the past years pass by like a lantern, and tears of regret are shed. Recalling the past events of his son, the king pours out a handful of tears that he has struggled to contain. At this point, the rich and sympathetic, no matter who came first, hugged each other and couldn't control the tears that flowed endlessly. The courtiers around them were bewildered at first because they did not know the English language, but after a while they noticed how much the king had loved the prince. The rumors circulating that he was a heartless father are swept away in an instant because of the rich reunion.
As we have seen above, those who have been chosen to be sons of God must endure harsh and severe training. Those who do not overcome this test will never be recognized as children of God. Therefore, those who have been chosen as God's children are born in pain from birth and grow up in pain. Even though we live in harmony with the people of the world, we see that there are more hardships than those of the earth. If you look at people like Abraham, Moses, and Joseph who were chosen as God's people, you can easily see that! And even if you have not been chosen as a child of God from birth, there are many ways to believe in the Son of God and be born again as a child of God, so there is no need to worry too much about the common people who were not chosen before the ages.
And even if God's children give millions of dollars, they should never touch the world's affairs. It is the royal law to live without soil on your hands even if you become a child of the king of this land, but what is it that the children of God, the King of kings, are so sorry that they rush to the world with their twin wicks in their eyes? It can never happen. On the one hand, those who call on the name of the Lord, and on the other hand, seek honor in the world, are not all children of God but belong to Cain. This is because Cain is an earthly man and Abel is a heavenly man.
God wants everyone in the world to be saved through His Son, but He doesn't grant salvation to everyone in the world. Because He grants salvation only to those who believe in His Son. That's why the Lord says to his followers, "Entrust the affairs of the world to the dead, but follow me."
Lastly, once again, in order to become a child of God, my old self must die once. Because without this, you can never be born again into Christ. And those who have been regenerated by the Spirit of the Lord must never touch the world's affairs like God's children, but must do the work of raising human dead souls like Jesus did. This is the last thing the sons of God should do. Then, now, do you want to live as children of God? Or do you want to live as a servant? The decision is only yours.