Title: People of Sejong
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Main text: 1 Corinthians 2:14-3:4
Title: People of Sejong
Introduction
I have a habit that I developed while farming.
It is a habit to pull when you see the grass.
Because the grass must be plucked in order to bear fruit.
These weeds must be plucked from time to time.
If you miss that time, your strength will take hold
The fruit is less bearing.
Just as there is fleshly grass
There is also a spiritual pool.
There are grasses that block the fruit of God's blessings.
This grass needs to be plucked.
This grass must be plucked.
Because this grass must be plucked to produce abundant fruit.
Because it bears the fruit of answers.
Therefore, this grass must be plucked.
But the problem is that the fleshly grass looks good
The problem is that the spiritual grass is hard to see.
Some even wonder if there is such a grass.
I don't know how big a problem is.
***** Then how can I see the pool?
one who bears no fruit
If you look at the lives of those who do not receive answers, you can see the grass.
Ah! That saint cannot bear fruit because of that kind of grass.
“They did not listen to the word during the worship service.
Because the heart is lost in an empty place
It does not bear fruit.”
“By not listening to the counsel of the minister,
It does not bear fruit.”
“Because you don’t care about the church at all
It does not bear fruit.”
“I try to listen only to good things
I don't want to hear the words I don't want
Because I close my ears and close the door of my heart
It bears no fruit.”
you can see doing
This is the spiritual pool.
This grass needs to be pulled out.
Paul, the apostle of such a person,
They are said to be “the fleshly ones”.
Let's look at verses 1 and 2.
“Those who are carnal,
As with little children in Christ
I fed you with milk and not with rice.
For you were not worthy, and you cannot now.”
Those who are carnal do not mature spiritually.
It's like a little child.
can't grow.
Why is that?
“Because I can’t afford it, because I can’t even now”
I have to listen and bear the word.
I can't bear it because I don't listen
You can't even grow.
Ex) Even if you go to church for 10 or 20 years, you cannot grow.
Because you have to eat the Word to grow.
I try to breastfeed every day.
How can you grow?
You should also eat hard rice.
I have to eat rough rice too.
That's how you grow.
Church members who cannot eat this kind of food cause problems.
Let's look at verse 3.
“You are still carnal.
There is envy and strife among you.”
People who cause problems in the church
Not an unbelieving natural person outside the church.
Because unbelievers reject the gospel itself,
Refuses to enter the church.
That is why it is causing problems in the church
mature spiritual Christian
Not because of unbelievers outside the church
“Because of those who are carnal”
The word flesh here rebels against God.
It refers to the sinful nature of human beings who try to live according to their own claims.
Outwardly, I am a Christian.
In fact, they live by carnal standards.
We live by worldly customs and corrupt values as our standard.
They say they believe but do not live the gospel
We live by corrupt values.
I don't know what it means to live with the cross.
Jesus said, “Deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow me.”
did
What does it mean to deny yourself
Because we do not know what life is like to carry the cross
We live according to worldly customs and corrupt values.
*****There are saints who hate this corrupt life.
The apostle Paul called these people spiritual.
I am speaking.
Let's look at verse 15.
“The spiritual person judges all things,
He is not judged by anyone.”
the divine person
Rather than refer to people who are morally impeccable
Mature Christians.
They are spiritual people who are controlled and guided by the Holy Spirit.
Because of this, we live a changed life that grows and matures every day because we realize the deep meaning of the gospel with true understanding and discernment.
Mature, spiritual Christians have three characteristics.
(1) They can judge everything.
The verb to judge
in specific ethical and religious contexts
Determining what God's will is
It refers to actions that can be discerned.
A mature Christian who is a man of the Holy Spirit
Because I can hear the voice of the Holy Spirit, the great teacher
Guiding and guiding from within
Feel and obey the impulses and directions of the Holy Spirit.
(2) They ‘are judged by no one.’
This is just as a spiritual person is a single fire general.
not doing
People who follow the wisdom of the world
I mean, I can't understand them.
Ex) A person with a decent job and a social reputation
If you go to Africa as a missionary and make sacrifices for the gospel
The world will think of him as crazy.
Example) If a person's hard-earned property is
If you use it for the gospel
The world will see it as a waste of property.
They follow their own standards of world wisdom.
for judging a spiritual person
His actions will seem incomprehensible and sometimes foolish.
Ex) Butler Kim Mi-sook, Nature Village Community,
I can't understand the butler.
(3) A spiritual person is a person who possesses “the heart of the Lord.”
Let's look at verse 16.
“We Have the Mind of Christ”
Those who obey the indwelling Holy Spirit
Sensitively discern the will of the Holy Spirit
Not only have the heart to understand the will of the Lord, but
You will gradually become more like the Lord.
Application) If we could have only the heart of the Lord today,
All the personal and church problems we face
It could be solved.
Ex) All the problems of the Corinthian church
The Corinthians did not have the heart of the Lord
Follow the “wisdom of the world”
Because they have a “carnal heart.”
Application) Dear saints, your icy
Do you want problems to be solved like spring snow?
I'm warming up the water to solve that problem.
Do you go and pour that hot water and do that?
You don't have to.
Just as the snow naturally melts when the sunlight is warm
The Holy Spirit dwells in our hearts and enlightens us
If we become like the Lord through obedience
All problems will melt away.
It will disappear without a trace.
****** There are people who do not know this truth.
Apostle Paul said such a person
It is said to be a “non-believer”.
Let's look at verse 14.
“The natural man does the works of the Spirit of God
They do not accept it; they are foolish to us.
Can't you even understand
It is only spiritually that these things are discerned.”
“You do not accept” means
It means refusing to do spiritual things.
It means rejecting the gospel.
That is, they do not bring in the Holy Spirit.
because such spiritual things
Because it looks stupid to them.
Here's what they care about and what they accept.
social and banquets, play and entertainment,
Comfort and Comfort, Drinking and Eating, Clothing and Appearance
to get more wealth,
Greater and better, desires and emotions,
Desires and longings, status and wealth, ambitions and advancement,
We focus our attention on these things and we accept these things.
So there is no room to receive the Gospel.
There is no room for the Holy Spirit.
If you look at this kind of person with the wisdom of the world, he seems like a successful person.
From the perspective of God's wisdom, he is a person who has completely failed.
Ex) The rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16
Who is successful? repentant
Who has failed? unrepentant
Those who repent will go to eternal heaven
Those who do not repent will go to eternal hell.
conclusion)
There are three kinds of people in this world.
unbelieving natural person, carnal person, spiritual person
How can you tell them apart?
Distinguish by fruit.
If you look at Matthew 7:16-20,
“You will know them by their fruit, grapes from the thorns,
Or will you pick figs from thistles?
In the same way, every good tree bears beautiful fruit,
A bad tree bears bad fruit
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit.
A bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
Every tree that does not bear good fruit
cut down and thrown into the fire
Therefore you will know them by their fruits.”
Dear brothers and sisters, what kind of tree are you?
What kind of fruit does it bear?
Prayer)
Holy Spirit help me
have mercy and mercy
Let me see the spiritual grass that blocks the fruit of the answer.
Give me the power to remove
So let me bear good fruit
I pray in Jesus name.