Title: Reborn in Christ!
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Sunday day sermon
Text: Galatians 2:11-21
Title: Reborn in Christ!
Since Adam sinned, all human beings have been born under sin. To say that we were born under sin means that human beings have already been born with sin from our mother's womb. David confesses, "I was born naked in my mother's womb."
To say that man was born with sin means that the spirit of man is already dead. A dead human spirit does not long for heavenly things, but only seeks the dead on earth. That is why the people of this world never give up their greed for the earth and live their lives. This is also true of those who are religious. Even those who have not been regenerated into Christ, no matter how long they have been living in faith, never give up their regrets about the world.
Originally, humans were created as living spirits, but they fell into Satan's temptation and disobeyed the word of God, ate the fruit in the center of the Garden of Eden, ate and became a dead spirit. From then on, all human beings fell into the hands of Satan, and to this day, they have been living as servants of Satan. It is the dead spirit that dominates the human heart today. A dead spirit means a demon. Demons feed on human sin.
In the Garden of Eden, God placed a curse on the serpent who designed this event, saying, “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle and more than all beasts of the field, that you shall go about your belly and eat dust all the days of your life.” you have allowed it Soil here refers to a dead human spirit. This continues to this day.
Today, because I went to church for a long time, if there are people who think they are children of God, they should change their minds. And because I am filled with the Holy Spirit, even those who think they are God's people must abandon such thoughts. Because the Holy Spirit acts like the law for Christians, no one can become a child of God by the Holy Spirit.
Just as Jews cannot attain salvation through the law, so Christians cannot attain salvation through the Holy Spirit. When Jews live under the law and believe in Jesus, their original sins and their sins are forgiven and they are saved. God poured out the Holy Spirit on the Jews and only those who believed in Jesus.
But the Gentiles are people who also lived the law of God. However, when Gentiles believe in the name of Jesus, God pours out the Holy Spirit on those who believe because of the efficacy of the blood shed on the cross. When the Gentiles receive the Holy Spirit, from then on, the Gentiles will also come to know that God is a living being and begin their religious life in earnest. Today's Christians go to church only to faithfully keep the law of the Holy Spirit.
However, no one can be saved because the life of faith that started in this way cannot solve the self-criminal sins committed every day. Also, since none of the Gentiles with corrupt hearts can fully follow the Holy Spirit, even believers who do not receive forgiveness of sins through the Son must eventually face God's judgment seat because of their sins against the Holy Spirit.
Simply put, the way Christians today live their faith under the Holy Spirit is just like the way Jews lived their faith under the law. If believers today confuse this, the Pharisees of Jesus' day are also under the curse of God even more.
The people of Israel, who lived a religious life under the law, can achieve complete salvation only when they believe in Jesus Christ, who has come as the fulfillment of the law. can be
One of the biggest mistakes Christians today make is that they mistake the Holy Spirit for the Spirit of Christ. Therefore, if you call on the name of Jesus and receive only the Holy Spirit, you are mistaken for being born again into Christ. However, Christians should not be mistaken for the fact that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God the Father and the Spirit of Christ is the Spirit of the Son. “It is the Spirit of your Father who speaks within you” (Matthew 10:20).
If the Holy Spirit that Christians received after calling on the name of Jesus is really the Spirit of Christ, then all Christians who have received the Holy Spirit by now should give up everything from the world and live a humble life. However, even after washing their eyes, it is hard to find a Christian who has received the Holy Spirit and lives by abandoning the worldly greed and humiliating himself as a sinner.
To be born again as Christ means to die because of our sins and be born again by the grace of Christ. In order for a human to die first because of sin, he must first realize how much sin he is living in every day. If you do not realize your sin first, you cannot die because of your sin.
When a person realizes his/her sin and follows the laws of the world and the law of conscience, it becomes a rubber band law, and the number of sins varies according to each person's thoughts, so it is not very effective in realizing one's sin. ※Rubber band law: When you steal 10 won and when you steal 100,000 won The laws of the world and the law of conscience change depending on what people think.
That is why God first gave His laws to those who believe. Since God's law does not come and go like a rubber band, it is the most reasonable way for humans to realize sin through God's law. Because no man born under sin can pass God's law, everyone is a sinner under God's law.
That is why the law was first given to the Jews so that they could all be imprisoned under sin so that their sin problem could be solved through Christ. In the same vein, the law of the Holy Spirit was first given to Christians today so that they could all be imprisoned under sin and receive the solution of sin through the Son of God who came spiritually.
Only when Gentiles believe in the Son of God who comes before Christians can they be freed from the sin of violating the law of the Holy Spirit and reach full salvation. This is the process of being born again in Christ. However, those who claim to be saved by unconditionally attending church without knowing this fact, or those who mistake the Holy Spirit for the Spirit of salvation and claim that they are born again into Christ, are all just beginners in the faith.
Just as the Jews mistook the law for the law given to them to be saved and went to the temple and offered sacrifices according to the law, but no one could achieve salvation through such actions, Christians today also misunderstood the Holy Spirit as the spirit of salvation and worked hard. We go to the chapel and offer sacrifices in the name of Jesus, but we must keep in mind that no one can be saved through such actions.
What is clear is that the life of those who have received the Holy Spirit and those who have been reborn as Christ are 180 degrees different. Those who receive the Holy Spirit still covet the world because their heart belongs to the world, but those who are reborn as Christ never covet the world because everything in their heart is under the control of heaven (the Lord).
If there are people reading this who claim that they have been born again by the Holy Spirit, please take a look inside your own heart. So, if you still have not cast off your greed and lust for the world in your heart, then you have not yet been born again into Christ.
And if you think that you are saved because you have been attending church for a long time, and if you look inside your heart and cannot give up your greed for the world, you too have not yet met the Son God sent. -He who has ears, let him hear and understand!-