Title: Repent! Heaven is at hand!
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Sunday day sermon
Text: Matthew 3:1-12
Title: Repent! Heaven is at hand!
John the Baptist cried out, “Repent! Heaven is at hand!” must have been a big issue for the Jews at the time. It could have been pleasant to hear that the word of God was heard again through John the Baptist after the last word of God was cut off through the prophet Malachi. is.
Likewise today, as John the Baptist cried out to Christians who believe they have already received the Holy Spirit and have been saved, “Repent! Heaven is near!” I wonder how much Christians can believe and accept this fact and come out believing in the Son God has sent.
The people of Israel living under the law can be saved only when they believe in the physical Son sent by God. The fleshly son refers to the Son who came in the flesh, and the spiritual son refers to the son who comes as the Word (Spirit) through a person.
The law was a law given to the flesh of the Israelites, but as you know, no one can fully obey the law. The spiritual law (the law of the Holy Spirit) is also a law given in the hearts of Christians, but there is no one who lives by completely keeping the spiritual law. After all, the Israelites who lived under the law and the Christians who now live under the law of the Holy Spirit are all sinners who have broken the law given by God.
The reason God sends His Son equally to both people is that both people believe in the Son He sends, so that their sins of violating God's law will be forgiven and that all will enter eternal life. But the people of Israel tried to be righteous by the law, but they did not believe in their son, so they went to destruction.
However, it is unsettling that today's Christians are also trying to be righteous by the Holy Spirit. It is very fortunate that the spiritual son has not come to the Christians yet.
Christians mistake the Holy Spirit, which they received after calling on the name of Jesus, for the Spirit of Christ and think of this as salvation. The Holy Spirit is not the Spirit of Christ, but the Spirit of the Father. Therefore, since only original sins can be forgiven through the Holy Spirit, the forgiveness of only original sins cannot lead to complete salvation. In order for Christians to enter complete salvation, Christians must also receive full salvation only when a spiritual son comes to them and forgives their sins of disobeying the Holy Spirit and living according to their own will.
As I have said several times, the Israelites will enter into complete salvation when they believe in Jesus who came in the flesh and receive the Holy Spirit. That is, the flesh of Jesus takes on the responsibility of all the sins of the Israelites who broke the law. Then, the Holy Spirit comes to them as proof that their original sins are forgiven through the blood that Jesus shed when he died on the cross. However, no matter how long they have lived as holy Israelites, if they do not believe in Jesus, the Holy Spirit will not come upon them. If this happens, their own sins and original sins will not be forgiven, and they will not be able to enter eternal life. This is the process of salvation for the people of Israel.
However, without God's law, the Gentiles, who lived like dogs and pigs, suddenly called on the name of Jesus, who came to the land of Israel one day and received the Holy Spirit. Because of the efficacy of the blood that Jesus shed on the cross, if anyone calls on the name of Jesus, God sends the Holy Spirit to everyone as a proof that their original sins are forgiven. However, Christians who have received the Holy Spirit also bear the obligation to live according to God's law from then on. If you do not live by this law, you will have to stand before God's judgment seat and be judged in the end. This law is called self-crime because you are disobeying yourself.
However, Christians believe that if they call on the name of Jesus, who has come to the land of Israel, even if they disobey the Holy Spirit, Jesus will forgive all their sins. But this is an illusion. Jesus came in the flesh only to bear the sins of his people who lived under the law. That is why he was deliberately whipped to take charge of the self-crime of his people.
However, no matter how many scourges Jesus came to the land of Israel, he did not take responsibility for the spiritual sins of the Christians who disobeyed the Holy Spirit in their hearts. Also, the flesh cannot bear spiritual sins. In order for Christians to have their sins against the Holy Spirit resolved, Christians must also believe in the Son who comes before them spiritually. Only when the spiritual son comes and solves the sin of disobeying the Holy Spirit can we achieve complete salvation.
This means that in order to receive the resolution of the sin of violating the law, one must believe in the Son who came in the flesh. In order to receive the resolution of the sin of disobeying the law of the Holy Spirit, one must believe in the Son who has come spiritually to be able to solve the sin that one has committed.
Christians do not know this fact and believe that they are saved if they unconditionally attend church for a long time, or that they will be saved if they receive the Holy Spirit. It is the same principle as believing that if you give it, you will unconditionally lead to salvation.
The word that the Son of God will come spiritually before Christians means that Jesus, who came to the land of Israel in the flesh, died on the cross, ascended to heaven, went to the side of the Father, and now has the glory of the Father, and Jesus is now a spiritual being like God, so that the Gentiles It comes to your heart. However, he does not come to anyone, but he selects a person from among the Gentiles in advance and first comes into that person's heart and works through the Word. When Christians believe in the Son who comes in this way, they will receive forgiveness of all their sins, including the sin of disobeying the Holy Spirit, and will reach eternal life.
Jesus, who came as the Spirit in our hearts, takes hold of the hearts of men and does not allow them to live according to their will. In other words, unlike the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ does not allow us to live according to human will. Because the Holy Spirit comes with the law, the person who has received the Holy Spirit monitors whether the law is properly kept or not, whereas the Spirit of Christ comes directly into the corrupt human heart, so He does not leave the corrupt human heart as it is, and does not leave the corrupted human heart as it is. It will guide you to live your life according to your will. This is the difference between the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Christ.
If today's Christians believe in Jesus and the Holy Spirit they receive is truly the Spirit of Christ, then today's Christians would not have gone astray by living as they please. In the fact that no matter how large or small any church, Christians see in any church, they are all just trying to take care of their own interests and desires, and they can't even find the love of Christ for them, the Holy Spirit is never the love of Christ. It becomes clear that he is not a spirit. If the Holy Spirit is not the Spirit of Christ, the salvation that Christians believe is present salvation is also uncertain.
I hope everyone who is reading this will get away from the illusion that they are saved. This is not meant to make you tremble with anxiety, but to guide you to believe in the Son of God who will come in a little while. John the Baptist said, “Repent! When they shouted, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand!” many Pharisees and Sadducees came to John's baptism site and were baptized with water, but no one actually believed in Jesus.
Christ, who will come before Christians, will also appear in the same appearance as us, so he will probably consider himself the least sinner and come in the humblest form. Like Jesus who came to the land of Israel, only those who confess that they are sinners will be sealed with wheat and brought into the barn. This is the salvation process that Christians will truly accept. God said that no one under the world has ever given salvation except the name of his son.
If so, to what extent do you really feel that you are a sinner who has disobeyed the Holy Spirit? This will give you some measure of your salvation. I sincerely hope that all of you are deeply aware of the fact that you are the unspeakable sinners who have committed self-criminals, knowingly and unknowingly in the Holy Spirit and in the world. Because only then will we be able to believe in the spiritual Son that God sends us. -May those who have ears hear and understand-