Title: Now is the time to worry.
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Now is the time to worry. (2 Corinthians 7:8-12)
In today's world, we cannot live a single day without worries. The word “worry” refers to the feeling of being upset or depressed because of unresolved issues. Anxiety for most of us is unhealthy. All diseases are caused by anxiety and stress. So, in today's text, at the end of verse 10, the sorrow of the world is accurately diagnosed that the sorrow of the world leads to death. But the disappointment is yet to come. Stress isn't necessarily a bad thing. There is also good stress. Cholesterol is not good for our body, but not all of them are bad. Among the patients who have had surgery, there are patients who need to eat a lot of cholesterol.
Likewise, not all anxiety is bad. There are also good worries. It is a good thing to be anxious about God's will. Read verse 10 again.
“Godly sorrow produces repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow produces death.” There is a God-willed sorrow that produces repentance that leads to salvation without regret. In the past, we should have good sorrow that leads to God's salvation.
In the text, the word sorrow is translated as a broken heart in the Common Translation, and it is translated as sorrow in the New Standard Version and the Easy Bible.
Dear all! Now is the time to worry. We should not have sorrows that end in death, but sorrows that are God's will. It is a time to grieve and grieve for my faith and the church, which are degenerating into a formal and expedient religious person.
Why did the Apostle Paul speak these words of sorrow to the church in Corinth?
Paul loved the Corinthian church. If you love, you are interested. And you can rebuke.
For Paul, the church in Corinth is like an alter ego. This is a church that was built with tears in prayer before God. But the church had many problems. So, he rebuked the Corinthian church members a lot. In 1 Corinthians 1, Paul asks, “What is the Paulites, the Apollos, the Cephas (Peterans), and the Christians? There is one God, one Holy Spirit, one Jesus, and one faith, so why are you dividing the churches?” He rebuked the church in Corinth. Also in Chapter 3, “You are one family. But why are you jealous of one family member?
And among the church members in Corinth, there were people who believed in Jesus and sinned.
Paul also rebukes them strongly.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 "Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, you so too”
In 1 Corinthians 4:21, the Apostle Paul rebukes the church members, saying, “What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod or come to you in love and meekness of heart?”
The important word of today's text is that Paul received the letter of reproof, and the church in Corinth was grieved according to God's will and repented for salvation.
If the Apostle Paul wrote a letter to me and you today, and to us Christians, would you like to hear the words of praise?
It is frankly burdensome to say, “Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, look for it in its wide streets, and know that if you find even one man who does justice and seeks the truth, I will forgive this city.”
The phrase “run fast on the streets of Jerusalem” means that the time is urgent and the time of judgment is coming. The words “if anyone is found” is like the words of Luke 18:8, “Will you find faith in the world when the Son of Man comes?” It weighs on our hearts.
Therefore, it is a time to be concerned personally, as a church, and as a nation.
Now is really the last time.
A world where morals and ethics have fallen to the ground.
It seems that the church is not like the old days, there are no believers, only religious people. There is no mourning and it seems to have become rough
We fear the scourge of our Lord or the judgment of God.
Repent, please listen carefully to the words that the kingdom of heaven is near.
In Ezekiel 9, we see God's judgment coming upon Jerusalem, because the temple was full of idols to the east, west, north, and south of Jerusalem and its temple. As a result, the angels who have jurisdiction over the city go around each wearing a bowl of ink and mark their foreheads. In 9:4-5, “… Go through the city of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of those who groan and weep over all the abominations that are done in it... Do not spare, nor show mercy, but strike.”
Verse 6 says, “Slay the old and the young, the virgins, the little children and the women; but do not come near to those who have the mark on their foreheads, and begin in my sanctuary.” So they began with the old men who were in front of the temple.
Because of the iniquity of that city and the temple, God's dreadful judgment is coming, and you can see that he put a mark on the foreheads of those who mourn, mourn and weep for that sin, and then escape the judgment. In verses 6-7, “… Let it begin in my sanctuary... Defile the temple and fill all the courtyards with dead bodies... ” he said. When they sinned in the temple that should be holy, they first executed a terrible judgment. The command to “start with the old ones” is “spiritually old”, and if I look at the note below, I am “elder”. It is a message to judge the “old” or “elders” who should be spiritual leaders.
People with leftist ideology are crying out for a democratization movement without knowing what a democratization movement is.
We must be vigilant against these forces.
Who is the Antichrist in our day? The churches must cry out for the voice of the wilderness in this age so that our people can know it right away. They confuse our people in the name of our Lord. We must protect the church from those who do not know what God's will is and abuse the name of the Lord.
We need to grieve, weep and repent for our society and our country.
The time has come for the church to mourn and weep over iniquity. We do not grieve or lament, so we must listen carefully to the message that the church will be judged first.
Just as there are divisions in the church in Corinth, even within the same church, members of the church are divided, and embarrassing things are happening all over the place, even in social courts.
Everyone! Society wants to see the good side of the church.
Society wants to see the beautiful image of reconciliation in the church.
Everyone! The Corinthian church members read Paul's letter and repented. We, the church, and the nation must also repent according to God's will, with heartache, sorrow, sorrow, and repentance that leads to salvation. If you are not troubled before the Lord, you will be angry. The referee wears it.
The candlestick will move.
2 Corinthians 6:2 says, “Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”
Just as you repented with sorrow according to God's will after hearing the apostle Paul's letter, the words of reproof, I hope that you will repent of your sorrow and avoid the judgment of God that is approaching.
Saints!
Let's remember the words of the Lord, "Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted" (Matthew 5:4). Soon, the grace of restoration of the living Lord God will come to those who sincerely repent and pray for themselves, their neighbors, and even the nation.
I pray in the name of the Lord that you and I will become sorrowful and repentant me and you who will reach salvation before it is too late.