Title: Life under Grace
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Sunday day sermon
Text: Romans 6:12-23
Title: Life under Grace
Just as the people of Israel, living under the law, tried to enjoy freedom, but could not enjoy it, so Christians living under the Holy Spirit today seek freedom from sin, but no one today except by the Spirit of Christ You cannot be freed from sin. If today's Christians are living under the Holy Spirit, but they are living like free people because they believe in Jesus, they are free from sin, then they are living a life of self-indulgence. We can see that the people of Israel who lived under the law, especially the Pharisees, scribes, and lawyers, tried to become righteous by living such a life.
Just as the law could not make anything perfect, so the life under the law, no matter how long it may have been, could not lead to a life completely free from sin. In order for those who lived under the law to be completely free from sin, only when the perfecter of the law comes can they be freed from sin. Jesus, who came to the land of Israel, appeared in the flesh to redeem those who lived under the law. Because the people of Israel had been living under the law for so long, as long as they believed in Jesus, who is the end of the law, their hearts and spirits could begin to enjoy freedom from sin.
They slaughtered cattle and slaughtered sheep for about 2,000 years so that their souls could enjoy freedom from sin, but none of them could be free from sin. Even the High Priest, who entered the Most Holy to forgive the sins of the people, was not free from sin, so before entering the Most Holy, he was always able to enter the Holy of Holies only after performing a ritual to have his sins resolved first. Otherwise, even the high priest would die on the spot because of his sins the moment he entered the Holy of Holies. If the high priest in charge of pardoning the people's sins was like this, how much more weakness would the common people have?
However, someone who can solve these things at once has appeared, and that is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. To live under the law means to live under sin. The people who lived under sin could not solve the problems that they could not solve even if they tried to solve them for the rest of their lives, but the Son of God appeared and solved them at once. All they need to do now is to believe in the Son of God who has accomplished it. Believers cannot but thank the Son of God. After all, the Son of God came and solved a problem that could only be solved by his own death, so how can we not be thankful?
If you keep giving thanks for the Son of God, you will feel grace. Therefore, those who know that they were forced to die under sin can live again through the Son of God, and that is grace. Those who feel true grace toward the Son of God can never betray the Son. And because he is a humble sinner, he is getting smaller and smaller, and Jesus, who always gives grace in him, only feels bigger. Those who feel grace will eventually be compelled to love him. This is the heart that truly loves the Lord. So, at first, I live with a heart of gratitude for the grace that died for me, and the heart of gratitude eventually makes me realize the grace of the Lord, and the grace eventually leads to the power to love him, and from then on, I cannot help but love the Lord. will be.
The Gentiles today, like the Israelites who lived under the law, are all living under the grace of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit acts as a protector of present-day Christians who have become spiritual Israelites. How long have you been acting as a guardian? It will only serve as a guardian until the spiritual Son comes. Although Christians today live under the Holy Spirit, like the Israelites who lived under the law, they are all still living under spiritual sin. In order to enjoy freedom from spiritual sin (sin in their heart), they too can be freed from sin only if they believe in the spiritual Son sent by God.
The biggest delusion among Gentiles today is that they do not consider spiritual sins, such as hatred, envy, and jealousy that remain in their hearts, as sins. At the same time, they are trying to become righteous by putting only the receiving of the Holy Spirit at the fore. Just as the law could not make anything perfect, the Holy Spirit gives gifts to individuals in order to keep those who have become spiritual Israelites from going out of the world, so that each one is filled with the Holy Spirit, and acts only as a protector until the spiritual Son comes. That is, the Holy Spirit does not take away the remaining sin in the hearts of the Gentiles. It is only the Son of God who will come to take away sins. Before that, those who lived under the Holy Spirit, no matter how hard they struggle, and no matter how hard they try, cannot be free from sin.
Here, too, two phenomena appear. One is that those who try to justify themselves because they believe in Jesus and live under the Holy Spirit, not only do not realize their sins at all, but also try to admit that they are sinners. those who do not These are those who seek salvation by their works, and because of what I have done to the church today, the Lord will give me eternal life! They are those who work out their salvation through their own actions. And because these people always have sin in their hearts, they always have to live in anxiety and irritability, so stress always builds up. If you even say one word to these people, 'If you live your life of faith like that, you will go to hell!' It is proof that you are so insecure. This is because they are trying to achieve salvation through certain works.
However, on the contrary, those who live by faith in the Son are different from those who try to work out their salvation by works. At first, these people believed in Jesus and were living with the fullness of the Holy Spirit, so they knew that was all. While thinking about it, through the Holy Spirit, he realized that sin (hate, envy, jealousy) still remained in his heart, and realized that no one could be made perfect except for sin under the Holy Spirit. In the midst of this, the spiritual son came and I heard the saying, 'Whoever believes in me believes in him who sent me. are gone, and instead the Spirit of the Son has taken place in my heart, is this not thanks and grace?
I have struggled so much to live under the Holy Spirit and to be filled with the Holy Spirit, but that is only when I fast and repent, and when time passes, the life of faith that returned to my old life is now believing and accepting the Son in my heart, 365 years a year How can I not be grateful for having work in the Lord? 'It is no longer I who live, but Christ Jesus lives in me!' The apostle Paul lived under the law, only knowing that it was the highest faith and that it was the highest faith. But when he met Jesus, he realized how foolish and sinful he was. Realizing that, he explains the gratitude and grace of Jesus Christ in the Bible with verse expressions. Even today, those who truly realize the grace of Jesus Christ never use the title of righteous. And they don't even reveal their worth It only shows the grace and gratitude of Jesus.