Title: Prophecy of Suffering / Luke 18:28-34
Content Our Lord is glorious to those who sacrificed for him
You promise.
Those who forsaken will receive many times more in this time, and eternal life in the world to come.
There is no one who cannot receive it.>
This promise in the text is very unique.
This promise is a reward in the afterlife, or a crown that will not pass away.
It is not speaking about, but clearly teaching the present life.
It's about right.
This word must be taken in a spiritual sense
have to lose
This is what Christians have given up for Christ's sake.
This means that you are well compensated.
Such a person knows that what he has lost and given up has been rewarded several times.
you will find out
In short, Jesus Christ gave them relatives, property, or friends.
that it will be much better than that.
God's people will discover the wonderful fulfillment of these words in their experience.
It's possible.
Note the word hundredfold.
Through all the ages of the church this word is being witnessed,
The riches of Christ when people gave up all for the sake of the kingdom
It is said that grace is more than enough to compensate for all the losses.
True Christians glorify in tribulation, sickness, privation, and discipline
Or to be able to rejoice in the midst of suffering for Christ's sake.
will be
Full of joy in the darkest of times, for the sake of the Lord's name
You can be proud of being humiliated, and when you were poor,
in prison or in a court of law, in the midst of fire or the threat of a sword
When there is, know that the words of Christ always bring good results.
Believers are rewarded in this world.
Friends can break promises, rich people can go bankrupt,
The word of our Lord never fell to the ground.
Therefore, we must hold fast to this promise.
We must not succumb to the fears and doubts that lie ahead.
And what we believers need is faith in the word of Christ.
is to practice it every day.
Today we see that the text makes the death of Jesus Christ himself clear.
Let's take a look at what was prophesied.
the Lord
I will be spit on you, you will be whipped and you will die.
you will see
The Lord spoke often of his own death.
His death is a substitutionary death.
He hung His body on a tree to make up for our transgressions.
He gave his flesh and blood to give life to the world.
The cornerstone of all truth about Christ is
that Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).
Word.
The love of Christ is indescribable and indescribable.
will be
We can rest on that love without fear.
Christ loved me so much before we thought of Christ
If we do, we will love you even more after we believe in Christ.
I'm sure.
Our Lord faced the bitter cup of death and did not evade it.
I did.
Therefore, we cannot avoid the cup that the Lord gives us.
As we read the text, we can see that the disciples of the Lord haveten the death of the Lord.
You see things you don't understand.
When the Lord explained suffering
Because the word was hidden, they did not know what he said.
It was > is recorded.
We will be amazed at the blindness and folly of the Jews and the disciples.
Clear teachings hidden in clear symbols in the law of Moses and the prophets
Without realizing it, neither explanations of death nor prophecies of suffering
We can laugh at those we didn't know
There is not.
He did not understand what the Lord had to say about his death.
Before we think of the weak disciples as strange, we must first
It would be nice to look around people.
Believers today, so-called Christians, witnessed the death of Christ.
The fact that we don't value or understand makes us
Be humble.
We must examine our own hearts.
We are living in an age of false doctrines about the death of Christ.
live in
Christ crucified is the living foundation of our hope, Christ
understand that the atoning death of God gives true life to our souls.
Let's do it.
There is nothing to boast about except in the cross of Jesus Christ.”
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