Title: Preaching the Gospel in the True Meaning
Revelation (48) Preaching the Gospel in the True Meaning (Revelation 10:8-11)
< The word of God is food >
Another voice from heaven gave the command not to write down the words of the seven thunders. “Go and take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the earth” (verse 8). So the Apostle John went out to the mighty angel and asked for a little scroll, and the angel said, “Take and eat; bitter to your stomach, but sweet as honey in your mouth” (verse 9).
“Reading the Bible every day” is the most important measure that shows that a person's faith is true faith, not undulation or false faith. Daily Bible reading is just as important. If you do not eat the Word for a long time, your soul will suffer from malnutrition and die of starvation. Just as we eat food every day, we must eat the Word of God.
In addition, the text of the text challenges us to not only listen to the sweet words, but also to listen to the bitter words. Even when you hear criticism, if you listen to it as the Word of God, you can use it as an opportunity for repentance. I get angry at first when I hear someone negatively saying something about me, but when I look at myself, they are often right. Even if it doesn't fit, if you think it's right and accept it, it will help your soul and overflow with grace.
Accepting criticism is hard and painful, but when you accept the criticism and try to change your behavior, you are preparing a vessel to be blessed. This does not mean, however, that criticism should be accepted unconditionally. All you have to do is accept criticism with a generous heart, pray before God, and choose the right path according to God's will. Blessed are those who are good at criticism, but blessed are those who are well criticized.
< Preaching the Gospel in the True Meaning >
Verse 11 of the text reminds us of the mission of preaching the gospel. The word of God is ultimately the word of prophecy, and its core word is the gospel. Therefore, once you have eaten the word of God, you must strive to spread the word to everyone in all nations. One of the greatest proofs that we have digested the Word is that we strive to spread the Gospel with a desire to spread the Gospel. The life of preaching the gospel is not easy and difficult, but it must be accomplished by pouring out our strength.
One of the most important missions of the church is to preach the gospel, and one of the most important missions of believers is to spread the gospel. Why is the sense of duty to preach the gospel for the fortress weakening? Because it relates the preaching of the gospel to the numerical growth of the church. Is the church that has achieved numerical growth of the church a church that has spread the gospel well? The song is not like that. The reason the church is overflowing with reliefist believers is because the gospel is not preached well.
The fortress is an era in which a lot of information is released as it is, and with the development of videos, the number of cases of revivalists speaking recklessly from the pulpit as in the past has decreased a lot. In the old days, low-quality revivalists said that when they held a revival meeting through funny comic stories, eschatology, shamanism, belief in reliefism, and open donation competition, people said it was fun and received grace. There were many sermons sprinkled with the ink of caution.
A revivalist at that time said this everywhere he went. "Everyone! Emphasizing the qualitative growth of the church, ‘Quality! quality! Is the church a church that does not achieve church growth and is dragged along and vomited while doing so? Grab people's branches right away and fill the church." When I hear such a stimulating story, I think coolly and clap my hands and say, “Amen! From then on, the number of people who were brought to the church by any means was considered as evangelism and the number increased. Finally, ‘sheep! amount! Yang!’ The Yangachi-style evangelism method has many aspects that have lost the trust of the Korean church.
Evangelism is not just about numerical growth. The overflowing growth of revivalist members is not true gospel preaching. Do not forget that the expansion of the work of the kingdom of heaven within one soul and overflowing with a sense of mission in God's will are also important concepts of evangelism. The true spread of the gospel is the spreading of the influence of the gospel through such true believers.