Title: People who complain of injustice!
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Sunday day sermon
Text: Luke 18:9-14
Title: People who complain of resentment!
We use the word “embarrassed” when we are angry and frustrated because of something ambiguous. In another sense, we use the phrase “It is unfair when someone is framed and imprisoned without any fault. In addition, the word “embarrassed” also contains a strong will to defend oneself. However, if you look in the Bible, you can find that there are surprisingly many people who complain of such injustice.
It was the Pharisees who believed themselves to be righteous. In the Bible, the Pharisees did not openly say, “It is unfortunate,” but I think, ‘When they went to hell instead of going to heaven, they would burst out in anger before God and complained that it was injustice.’ They did not engage in injustice, extortion, and adultery like tax collectors and prostitutes, so why did they drop them into hell and allow those who practiced unclean things like publicans and prostitutes to enter heaven instead?
At first glance, the complaints of the Pharisees may sound plausible. However, these words may sound plausible, but from God's point of view, they are very vile and vulgar words. From God's point of view, the Pharisees still appear to be insane. They have no idea how publicans and prostitutes got into eternal life. Even if they go to hell, they do not realize that “no one who is not a sinner can enter the kingdom of heaven”. I can't help but say they are really stupid.
Compared to tax collectors and prostitutes, the Pharisees claim that I am not the only one who did not commit a crime, but a human born as a descendant of Adam cannot live without sinning even once in their lifetime. Nevertheless, they now regard themselves as righteous. Those who believe in themselves as righteous must save themselves from their sins. Such people no longer need God's grace. The power to forgive man's sins is a privilege that only God has given to His Son. Nevertheless, the Pharisees are making themselves righteous.
Heaven is not a place that human effort enters, but a place that can only be entered by the grace of God. This fact is well known to both Jews at the time of Jesus and Christians today. However, it is only talk and the reality is that everyone is struggling to gain eternal life through their own efforts. Salvation is receiving the forgiveness of sins through the Son, but they are neglecting the task of receiving the forgiveness of sins by believing in the Son sent by God. This is the figure of a foolish human living in darkness.
What the Jews tried to achieve eternal life through their own efforts began with keeping the law well. According to the law, they believed that their sins would be forgiven by going to the temple every week and slaughtering cattle and slaughtering sheep and bringing their blood to the altar. However, he said that the blood of bulls and goats cannot forgive human sins. However, these are merely parables and types of Christ. But the Jews thought that keeping it well was the way to faith and eternal life. So, those who lived by keeping the law to some extent were branded as “righteous” and those who did not keep it well as “sinners,” and they boasted of their “righteousness” without having any dealings with them.
This human effort continues today.
Christians today also mistakenly believe that all sins will be forgiven if you go to a chapel and call on the name of Jesus. The name of Jesus that Christians today call is the name of the Savior who came to the land of Israel. The Savior, who came to the land of Israel, bears only the sins of His people. If the Gentiles called on the name of the Savior who came to the land of Israel and gained anything, it was the effect of the blood shed when He died on the cross. The blood of Jesus bears the original sin of man, and the flesh of Jesus bears the sin of self-crime (the sin committed by man himself).
The reason that the Gentiles called on the name of Jesus and what they got was the evidence that their original sins were forgiven, and God poured out the Holy Spirit on them. Just because Gentiles are forgiven of their original sins, does not mean they will enter eternal life. Gentiles who have received the Holy Spirit are obliged to live according to the Holy Spirit. However, it is by no means easy for Gentiles with corrupt hearts to live according to the Holy Spirit. So the crime committed is self-inflicted. This self-crime can never be solved by the law of the Holy Spirit, but only through the Son sent by God.
So, God sent a son named Jesus to the land of Israel as a type of Isaac, and He sent another Son of God to the Gentiles as a type of Jacob. He is not a son who is completely different from Jesus, only the outer man is different from Jesus who came to the land of Israel, but the inner man is all the same as Jesus.
To the Jews who believe in Jesus, the Holy Spirit came as a spirit of salvation, but to those who do not believe in Jesus, the Holy Spirit came as a spirit of judgment. Now, Gentiles who have called on the name of Jesus and have received the Holy Spirit are obliged to live by the Holy Spirit. However, as mentioned briefly above, it is by no means easy for Gentiles with corrupt hearts to overcome the temptations of the world and live according to the Holy Spirit. If those who have received the Holy Spirit cannot live by the Holy Spirit, all must stand before God's judgment seat because of their own sins. Nevertheless, many Christians today mistakenly believe that if you go to a chapel and call on the name of Jesus, even your sins against the Holy Spirit will be forgiven.
Just as the Jews disobeyed the law and did not survive, so if the Gentiles also disobeyed the Holy Spirit, they must all stand before God's judgment seat. That is why God sent His Son, once before the Jews, and once before the Gentiles, to solve this problem for believers. There is no difference between the Savior who came to the land of Israel and the Savior who came before the Gentiles. They are the same person, but the outside person is slightly different depending on the times and circumstances, and the work they do is the same.
There is not a single text in the Bible written for no reason. So, would God have placed Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Bible for no reason? There, God already had a plan to save the Israelites and the Gentiles, and he prepared these sketches as a type. It is only because foolish humans do not see God's great will and interpret the Bible literally or according to their own taste, so God's providence of salvation cannot be seen. That is why he said that no one on this earth would open a book until the Lamb revealed the mystery of the Bible.
As a simple example, if only one Jesus had been sent to the land of Israel to make him the savior of the world, then Isaac would not have had Jacob again. However, the reason that Isaac's wife Rebekah gave birth to twins and left Esau and chose Jacob among them was God's plan with the future savior of the Gentiles in mind as well. Just as Jacob was born from the stalk of Isaac, it implies that the Son of God who will come before the Gentiles will eventually be born from the stalk of Jesus.
In this way, those born from the stem of Jesus will come to the Gentiles as the Savior and do the work. The ministry will be the same as the ministry of Jesus who came to the land of Israel. When the Gentiles who have received the Holy Spirit resist the Holy Spirit and lead their own lives, all must face God's terrible judgment seat, let alone heaven. God knew this from the beginning and prepared His Son in advance. Now, if anyone (even an unbeliever) realizes that he is a sinner and believes only in the Son sent by God, all of his own sins will be forgiven and anyone will be able to enter the kingdom of heaven.
However, if you think that receiving the Holy Spirit is salvation, or if you do not believe in the Son sent by God because you have no sin, no matter how long you have been in the faith, you will never be free from the sin of disobeying the Holy Spirit. Because of this, he must stand before the dreadful judgment seat of God. God sends His Son as the last grace of mankind, but God will never forgive such a person if they believe that He is righteous and do not believe in His Son.
Just as the Jews went to the temple to die and slaughtered cattle and slaughtered sheep and offered sacrifices to God, their sins were not forgiven. Realizing this fact, it is reasonable to believe that Gentiles today have waited for the Lord who will come before them in the future.
It is no coincidence that, despite the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in AD 70, and hundreds of years have passed since then, Jews were innocently taken away by Hitler and slaughtered 6 million people. If God wanted to stop them, it would have been possible. But why would you leave them alone? Ironically, they even killed God's own son and his disciples.
Christians today should never forget this fact. Today, once again, when God sends His Son to show mercy to the Gentiles, the Gentiles will have to forgive their sins (sin against the Holy Spirit) and enter eternal life through the Son. However, if there is a person who believes that he or she is saved until the very end, such a person will have to look again at how the Pharisees ended. -He who has an ear, let him hear and understand-