Title: Put Down the God in My Mind!
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Sunday day sermon
Text: John 11:1-44
Title: Let go of the God in my mind!
To humans, the world seems like it was created randomly, but it is absolutely not. You must know that this world was created in God's thorough plan. If we dig into the ground, we can see ants building and living in the ground. If you look closely at the anthill, you can see that it was never built haphazardly. You can see that in one hole there is a house where white eggs are laid, and in another hole, you can see that there is food for barely four times. Insects that cannot speak are also built and live according to their own shape. How could God, who created all things, have made this world more precise and planned?
If the world was made so well, how would the lives of the people living in it be affected by it? Although all human beings are living under God's providence, it is needless to say that the lives of the Israelites, who were especially chosen as God's people, are not to be missed.
The Son of God came into the chosen people of Israel. At that time, they were the only people on earth who lived under God's special law for about 2,000 years. When all the people in the world worshiped idols and bowed before the dead spirits, the only people of Israel believed in the living God. How blessed would this be?
Furthermore, God in spirit could not appear directly in front of the Israelites because they had not been completely forgiven of their sins, so He spoke through prophets or occasionally appeared before the people of Israel through angels. Then, when the time was fulfilled, through a son named Jesus, God took on flesh and revealed Himself to the people of Israel.
However, the Israelites, who had been serving God so diligently, did not believe when God appeared before them in human form. Where else in the world is such irony? What on earth is this that people who have been seeking God so diligently do not believe in God? This is a riddle that cannot be solved by the human brain.
The book that records this enigmatic story is the New Testament. Many Christians today look at this enigmatic book, but no one tries to solve the riddle, and they just accept what is written in the book as what they are saying to them, and they do not feel as if it is the correct answer.
Hunger It is contradictory in itself that people who do not know where they came from and where they are going in life understand these complex and subtle details, but even so, those who have heard his son at least once may feel differently, but those who have It comes as a bigger shock to people who are not so different from others.
The cause of this evil is that all human beings expand their imaginations called God in addition to their own thoughts. For example, people think that God is an unconditionally compassionate and loving God, and that He will unconditionally forgive humans no matter what great mistakes they commit. To people who have such vague ideas, what will happen if the Son of God suddenly appears one day and digs into people's hearts? The result is as obvious as seeing fire.
“Why are you scratching the insides of others?” The hot-blooded people will have a red face and will even try to kill them. The Son has dug into their hearts in order to forgive their sins, but people instinctively blush to defend themselves. He didn't even know that this was the play of the evil spirit that was suppressing himself.
Just by looking at these facts, we can see how unreasonable it is for humans to believe in God. However, ignorant of this fact, the appearance of Christians today is also not a spectacle. The more zealous they are, the more they say they can't live a day without the Lord, but are they really looking for the Lord?
The reason was that he had set up God for himself and believed in him. What kind of person in this world digs his inner heart, who would like it? Ironically, however, the Son must dig into the darkness in their hearts in order to deliver them from their sins. But humans hate them.
So, those who do not acknowledge themselves as sinners to the end will end up as chaff, and at least admit their sins and be sealed with wheat coming out in front of their son. In this way, the sinner and the righteous are one piece of paper. However, the results are truly staggering.
For the sinner will go to the resurrection of judgment, and the righteous will go to the resurrection of eternal life. At this point, we will have to put down the imaginary God we have in our head and live a life that aligns with the word that comes from the master of life. This is because only then can the self that is called me be destroyed.