Title: Make Yourself Clean
Title: Make yourself clean (2 Timothy 2:20-21)
In China, missionaries are being expelled because they are desperately trying to do so, but in the Korean church, the number of missionaries expelled while doing missionary work in China is rapidly increasing.
According to Chinese mission experts, the Chinese authorities know most of the missionaries currently on missions in mainland China and can expel almost all missionaries without leaving any seeds if they decide to do so. In this situation where mission to China becomes difficult and mission strategy revision is inevitable, the importance of missions to the diaspora in various parts of the world, not the mainland, cannot but be emphasized.
Recently, there are a large number of Chinese immigrants in New Zealand, and many of them are capable of Chinese and Asian missions.
The Lord said that the harvest is plentiful, but there are no workers to harvest. Now the Lord is looking for workers for the harvest. Therefore, we hope that we will prepare and purify ourselves so that we can become vessels that can be used with dignity.
The text says that in a large house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also wooden vessels and earthen vessels, some of which are of noble use and others of lowly use.
The big house is the house of God and I think it points to all the saints.
There are many vessels in the house of God, but even gold or silver vessels cannot be used if they are dirty. Even wooden and earthen vessels can be used if they are clean.
Therefore, we must purify ourselves and become vessels of honor.
Look at Saul. His vessel may have been clean at first, but when it became a vessel of his pride, he was rejected by God.
Same goes for Samson and Solomon. They lived because they liked foreign women. But in the end, because of them, they fell and were abandoned by God.
Therefore, you should always keep yourself clean.
Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from these things, he will become a vessel for honor, holy, fit for the master's use, and prepared for every good work.
That's right. If you cleanse yourself, the Lord can use you at any time. Therefore, to purify oneself is fit for the master's use and prepares oneself for every good work.
Look at the 10 virgins meeting the groom
The five virgins were foolish and did not prepare oil, but when the bridegroom came, they could not meet, so they could not enter the banquet house.
However, the five virgins who prepared oil were welcomed when the bridegroom arrived and entered the banquet house to have a banquet.
If you are not prepared, this is how it is. Therefore, you must clean yourself. At that time, I hope the Lord believes that it will be used as a precious vessel.
So how do we prepare?
1) The material must be clean.
If you are unclean about the substance, you cannot be used.
The owner of matter is God. If God gives it to you, you should have it, and if it doesn't, you shouldn't have it.
How much negativity do you commit by collecting material negatively?
Look at Yoo Byung-eon. After collecting all the materials by means and methods, he eventually becomes a wanted person.
1 Timothy 6:7 We brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. 8 If we have food and clothing, we will be content with it. 9 Those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts. It falls, which plunges men into ruin and destruction. 10 The love of money is the root of all evil, and those who covet it have been deceived, and have erred from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows. Judas Iscariot.. Achan (two hundred shekels of silver, fifty shekels of gold) Ananias and Sapphira (they sold a field and hid some of it)
Proverbs 21:6 “The gathering of wealth by deceitful words seeks death, a mist that is carried away.
2) Be morally clean.
7 Commandment Thou shalt not commit adultery 10 Commandment Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ass, or anything that is thy neighbour's.
Proverbs 30:19 “The traces of eagles flying in midair, and the traces of snakes crawling on rocks, and the traces of ships passing by the sea, and the traces of men and women with women, 20 so are the traces of a prostitute, as she eats and washes her mouth They say, I have done no evil.
3) Be clean in honor. It is used when it is clean in honor.
Let's clean ourselves. These are material things, morals, and honor.
I hope you will believe that if you cleanse yourself, you will become a vessel for noble use and prepare yourself for good works.