Title: Practice godliness //
Contents
1. Words that begin
A very shocking article appeared in the Dong-A Ilbo on December 17, 1994. A four-year-old Hungarian child named Verchi, raised by two dogs at home after his single mother worked long hours at work, was taken to a shelter because of dog-like behavior, such as barking, sniffing, and growling like a dog. will be
This true story clearly shows how important education is for humans born with potential. The constant effort and practice of both the teacher and the learner is essential to increase the effectiveness of such an important education.
2. Leaders who need to grow
Apostle Paul exhorts Timothy, a disciple and pastor, about what he should grow as a leader as follows.
Because God has created everything for the church members, there is nothing to be discarded if received with thanksgiving. Therefore, if you remind them that asceticism is the teaching of deceiving spirits and demons, they will become good servants of the Lord and be nurtured with the word of faith and good teaching. is.
“Being a good worker” means being a good, wonderful, attractive, and beautiful worker as Carlos Esse Diakonos ( ). Please believe that a good, wonderful, attractive, and beautiful worker in the Lord's eyes is a leader who discerns right and wrong lessons from God's point of view, not from the worldly point of view.
In fact, many religious teachings and ideas that arouse the admiration and admiration of the people of the world are rejecting or denying God, disobeying or opposing God's Word.
According to Genesis 11 and below, the people of the world did their best to build a tower that reached the heavens in order to make a name for themselves and to prevent them from being scattered, but God considered it an arrogant act and confuses and scatters their language.
The theories and ideas put forward by the conquerors in history were so plausible that many people, including their own people, either praised the war of conquest or participated in the war of conquest. However, all of them are genocide that kills the precious lives that Christ created and saved, and it is an ignorant crime that massively destroys the valuable cultural heritage of mankind. Unless it is God's judgment, every war of conquest is a sin greater than the sum of all the heinous sins that man can commit before God.
Also, all higher religions that have nothing to do with God who saves humans in Christ Jesus are also stumbling blocks in God's work of salvation.
A good worker, a good, wonderful, attractive, and beautiful worker, is a leader who discerns right from wrong from God's point of view. Such a leader will naturally be nurtured by the gospel, which is the word of faith, and the biblical doctrine, which is a good lesson.
3. The practice of godliness and the practice of the body
All leaders, including parents, especially pastors, must throw away the vain and vain myths that are derived from Satan and deceive people. In other words, we must abandon the blasphemous and vain pagan doctrines about the one God.
Every leader must constantly practice attaining godliness. Religion is an eusebeian ( ), which means the attitude of worshiping God, respecting people, and valuing oneself. In other words, it means to respect God carefully and to live the way God wants you to live. Piety does not mean, as it is often thought, a seclusion or cultivation of the Way in the deep mountains or in a monastery.
After the American Civil War, two soldiers were on their way home and saw a church on a hill. One soldier asked us to go to church and say a prayer of thanks to God, and the other asked to go out for a drink.
After that, one soldier lived reverently and the other a drunkard for decades. Eventually, a soldier who lived with alcohol became a criminal due to alcoholism and went to prison. While living in prison, he was surprised one day by an article that Cleveland had been elected as the 22nd President of the United States. It was because Cleveland was a comrade who went to his hometown with him after the war and offered to go to church and say a prayer of thanks.
In contrast to physical training, which is of little benefit, godly training has tremendous benefits in all things. Godliness has the promise of wonderful blessings in this life and in the life to come. In Mark 10:29 we read, "Jesus said, "Truly, I say to you, he who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for me and for the gospel, is in no time, but houses and brothers and sisters and mothers. There is no one who will not receive a hundredfold, with children, and lands, with persecution, and in the age to come eternal life."
Gould said, "Piety is the only value one can take from this world to the other." Erdman said, "The church members make the best of both worlds. A godly life benefits the world. But in the world If you live a godly life for profit, that is ungodliness."
4. Right Lessons
It is true that there are promises of great blessings to be received in this world and in heaven for those who practice to attain godliness. Please believe that it is a word that everyone deserves.
It is because we put our hope in the living God that we labor and exert our efforts to fulfill the promise of blessing through godly training. That God is the Savior of all people, especially those who believe.
As used here, “to work hard” is kopiomen ( ), which means to work hard enough to fully expend all of one’s maximum strength and energy. And “to make an effort” is agonizometa, which originally referred to a life-or-death battle in the arena.
Everyone, how much effort and effort are you making in order to receive our hope, the blessings of this life and the life to come? There is nothing wrong with God the Savior. The question is, how much effort and effort do we make to lead a godly life.
5. Conclusion
We are all in a position to guide others while being guided by others. Therefore, we must not only be guided well, but we must also nurture ourselves by guiding others well.
We earnestly pray that all of us work hard for a godly life and receive the blessings our Savior God has promised us in this life and in the future life.