Title: Relationship between God and the Son
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Sunday day sermon
Text: John 14:1-15
Title: Relationship between God and the Son
Today, people who used to live as unbelievers believed in the name of Jesus who came to the land of Israel and received the Holy Spirit to become Christians. Thousands of people who have become Christians do not hesitate to call God their Father. If so, does God really think of so many people as His children as humans do?
There is a proverb in our saying, “I don’t even think about people who give me rice cakes, but I drink kimchi soup first.” If God does not think of Him as His children at all, and the human side unilaterally calls God as Father (as a sign of salvation), this is a big deal.
In order to know this properly, we first need to know exactly about God and His Son, Jesus. Few people in the history of the Bible have done such a great thing as Moses. The Bible records that he worked as a servant (servant) in the house of God even after accomplishing such great deeds (the Exodus incident).
It's not just Moses. Elijah and his disciple Elisha, who took fire from the dry sky and burned 850 prophets of Baal on the spot and ascended to heaven in a fire chariot, and his disciple Elisha also worked with God's tremendous power, but they all worked as servants. . Also, major prophets such as Jeremiah, who is said to be a prophet in tears because he loved his people so much, and Isaiah, who accurately predicted the coming of Christ about 700 years ago, all worked as servants.
Why didn't God recognize them as His sons? The reason is, yet all of them were people who worked before Jesus came to the land of Israel. Therefore, no one of the Israelites could become the sons of God on this earth except through Jesus, who was sent as a type of Isaac.
Of course, they too can participate in the first resurrection after they die because of the merits of Jesus' death on the cross and shed blood. They are all just models. Therefore, if Jesus is the reality, then they are all merely models.
The only true sons of God in the land of Israel are the twelve disciples who were chosen by Jesus and the apostle Paul. The twelve disciples were given the authority (keys of heaven) to forgive mankind's sins and defeat Satan's schemes from Jesus, and they preached the gospel of the kingdom to the people of Israel.
Therefore, in order for the people of Israel to enter eternal life, they had to believe the words of the twelve disciples of Jesus to be forgiven of their sins of violating the law (because no one can keep the law completely) and then they could enter the kingdom of heaven. However, most of the Jews, including the Pharisees, were not willing to listen to the twelve disciples. This is because they believed that their faith was superior and that they were closer to God. This is the image of man living in darkness and the heightened human heart.
This is still the case today. Today, no matter how filled with the Holy Spirit, no one can compare with the ministry of Moses or Elijah, nor with the most powerful servants today, with the great prophets like Elisa, Jeremiah, or Isaiah. If people like Moses worked as servants, today, not to mention those who claim to be the Lord's servants, it is an undeniable fact that all those who work with the power of the Holy Spirit are also working as servants.
However, Christians who believe in the name of Jesus and have received the Holy Spirit are too calmly calling God their Father. If Christians are truly children of God, then the power to forgive human sins must be revealed to them. Behold Jesus, the Son of God! What evidence did he have that he was the Son of God? Didn't he have the authority to forgive human sins that no one else could do? The fact that no one with the authority to forgive human sins had appeared in the land of Israel until then is proof that the Son of God has not come. Although the Pharisees were so zealous for their faith, they could not do anything about the problem of human sin.
Among Christians today, there are those who heal diseases with the power of the Holy Spirit, cast out demons, and run large churches, but they find out the sins hidden in the hearts of Christians, point out those sins, make them repent, confess their sins and come out. There is no single Christian who can solve the problem of their sins.
Why can't they solve the problem of sin while doing great things? This is because they too are slaves, not sons. God has given this authority only to His Son. Therefore, in order for Christians to receive this authority, it is possible only if they believe in the Son of God, whom God sends before Christians as the type of Jacob.
However, since he has not yet sent such a Son of God to Christians, no Christian can yet call God the perfect Father. However, regardless of God's will, you can call God your Father because you like it. However, it is a great mistake to think that you can attain eternal life just because you have called God your Father.
Just as God sent His Son before the people of Israel as a type of Isaac, and only those who believed in Him and came out were recognized as His Son, even today, only those who come out who believe in the Son of God sent as a type of Jacob will be recognized as His sons. is going to
Thus, the Son acts as a bridge between God and humans so that they can break down the wall of sin (as if tearing the veil between the Holy Place and the Most Holy) so that humans can freely enter the Holy of Holies where God is. This is the way to salvation and the process of being born again into Christ.
However, what they can do is to take care of the flocks entrusted to them with care so that they do not go out of the world (fall) until the Son of God comes. Then, when the son comes, he must hand over all the sheep to him. Salvation is something only the Son can do. For such ones, God will reward them all to eternal life.
However, some rogue pastors and pseudo pastors put straws around their necks to suck their blood and live, while other false pastors beat or starve the sheep as if they were their own and sell them until they didn't have enough. But such people will not escape the stern judgment of God. This example has already been clearly demonstrated through the religious life of the Jews and Pharisees. For Christians, this is happening all over the place now.
Now, Christians and all unbelievers, like it or not, must believe in the Son of God whom God sends to the Gentiles as a type of Jacob to enter into complete salvation. Even those who have not lived by faith until now, if they believe in the Son, their sins will be forgiven and they will receive eternal life. The incidents in which a Syrobonic woman who was a Gentile and a Roman centurion ran before Jesus to solve the problem well illustrate this. -He who has ears, let him hear and understand...-