Title: Reform
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Text: Hebrews 9:10
Title: Reform
This year marks the 493th anniversary of the Reformation. We must reflect on the meaning of the Reformation, and we must create the faith that we reform once again today. God speaks to us through verse 10. "These things, along with eating and drinking and various washings, are the rites of the flesh, and are reserved until the time of reform." This is the only place in the Bible where the word reform is recorded. What does reform mean here?
What was in the Holy and Most Holy? There was a candlestick, which typified Jesus, the light of the world. The table and the showbread also foreshadow Jesus, the living bread who came down from heaven. And the altar of incense foreshadows Jesus, who became a fragrant sacrifice even his own life, and Jesus, who made the world through the Ark of the Covenant and the Word of God. Finally, the sacrificial system revealed in the law typifies Jesus. So, after Jesus came to this world, there is no need for any more sacrifices. This is the true meaning of reform. In the past, we were bound by a certain form and system, but now we know what it is and serve God according to the essence is the fact that the reform of our faith. In other words, finding the essence of faith is faith reform.
When Luther was reformed with the right faith, God accomplished the reform of the church through him. God never reformed the law. It is not a reform of the system or organization. Nor was it a reform of customs. He just established one person with the right faith and accomplished the great work of God through him. In the end, the most important thing in reform is ourselves, each one of us.
It is unreasonable to say that we can change our family and our church by our own strength. But when we are reformed with the right faith, God will do it. Although it is our little faith, God will be with you with amazing power to change the world. I don't think everything will change all at once. I am confident that as each of us is reformed into the right faith, the wonderful winds of the Holy Spirit will blow upon us.