Title: Misunderstanding of Church Life
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Misconceptions about church life
Deuteronomy 30:15-18
Behold, I have set before you this day life and blessing, death and disaster, that I command you today to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments and decrees and ordinances, and you may live and multiply, and your God For the LORD will bless you in the land that you will go and acquire. But if you turn around and do not listen, and if you are tempted to bow down to other gods and serve him, I declare to you today that you will surely perish, and the land that you will cross over the Jordan to acquire. Your days at Esau will not prosper.
If many people believe in Jesus and go to church,
They say that everything you do is blessed with blessings.
Of course, this is true in some ways.
But this is half the gospel.
We definitely need to know. The church is not a place where blessings are guaranteed.
Jesus is the kind of person that can be blessed if you just believe
It is not a place that guarantees blessings.
Many people have heard that if they believe in Jesus and go to church unconditionally, they will be blessed.
There is no difference between going to church and not attending church.
And they pour out negative comments about the church.
There are many negative stories being heard in the Korean church today.
There is also a spiritual aspect caused by Satan, but it is caused by the false half
It could be said that it happened because of misunderstandings.
The text we read today is for you and me who believe in Jesus.
How to receive blessings from God
And it is an important word that teaches the standard of how to be cursed.
The Israelites who appear in the text we read today are
They are God's people who believe in God just like we do.
They are God's chosen people like us,
They are the people of God who have been saved from the world through the blood of Jesus.
Therefore, these words were spoken to the people of Israel at that time.
And the same applies to us today.
Let's take a look at the spiritual truths we learn through these words.
First, God is a God of justice who makes you reap what you sow.
If you plant beans, beans will grow, if you plant red beans, beans will grow
It is the law of nature and the spiritual law of God.
Gal 6:7-8
Do not deceive yourself, for God is not deceived.
Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
He who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh
Whoever sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
Romans 2:9-10
There will be tribulation and distress for every spirit of man who does evil.
First to the Jew, and also to the Greek.
Glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good.
Psalm 107:10-12
Man sits in darkness and in the shadow of death;
They disobey the word of God and despise the will of the Most High.
Therefore he humbled our hearts by labor
They fell, and there was no one to help them.
Second, human life and death are in the hands of God.
We often think that blessings come from God and curses come from the devil.
But the Bible clearly says that God gives blessings and curses.
I am speaking. You should keep this in mind.
Curse is easy to think of as extreme.
A curse to those who do not believe in Jesus, but a curse to those who believe in Jesus.
This curse is God's chastisement, the scourge of love.
Please believe that it is the voice of love telling you to come back.
There are several major curses in the Bible.
sickness, mental suffering, defeat and suffering by the enemy, lack of material,
Disease: Deuteronomy 28:58-61
Mental suffering: Deuteronomy 28:65-67
Defeated and tormented by the enemy: Deut. 28:7, 25
Material deficiency: Deuteronomy 28:38-44
I am being disciplined by God for disobeying the Word because I made a mistake
There are times when we often oppose the devil.
You are the devil who is suffering because you have done something wrong, and you are telling him to go away.
Ex) In the case of Adam and Eve
Please believe that the devil is also in the hands of God.
ex) Job 1:9-12
Target 29:12
Wealth and honor come from you, and you are sovereign over all, and power and might are in your hand.
It is in Your hand to make great and to strengthen all.
There is not only the path of blessing in the church.
Knowing that there is always a path of blessing and curse
I hope you will follow the path of blessing by obeying God's Word.
Even though he suffers from his foolishness for
Those who do not know the word of God, blame God and blame the church.
I bless you in the name of the Lord that you do not lead a foolish life.
Only when we obey the word of God, anger changes and becomes a blessing.
Our adversary comes one way and flees seven
Believe that there is history.
turning from the seat of disobedience and suffering to the seat of obedience and blessing
Bless you in the name of the Lord.