Title: Repentance, Thanksgiving, Hope / Matthew 9:16-17
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Repentance, thanksgiving, hope / Matthew 9:16-17
No one puts a piece of raw linen on an old garment, because the crooked thing pulls it and hurts it.
The wine is increasing, and new wine is not put into old wineskins.
If you do, the wineskins will burst and the wine will be spilled, and the wineskins will be thrown away.
Put them in the basket to preserve both.
We must have a good ending. Life isn't a sprint, it's a long run
Lee Marathon. It's better to get to the finish line first than to start first.
This is more important. William Shakespeare said, "Everything is good when it ends well. The world's work
The beginning is important, but the end is even more important. The one who laughs last is the one who really laughs
Everything we do.” Whatever we do, we must reap the beauty of a kind.
People who do their best to the end are truly great people. Jesus is great
The three-and-a-half-year public ministry was excellent, but he refused the cross of suffering.
Because you lost it to the end. It is important to achieve something like this, but
It's more important to finish without giving up. So, a good end of the year
We should start the new year with hope.
Then, as we welcome 2003 anew, what should we do to make last year beautiful?
Let's reap the beauty of biblical seedlings by finding out if we're doing it right.
First, repent
To end the year well and start a new year 2003, you must first repent.
All. The first words Jesus said while calling for the arrival of a new day were “Repent”.
(Matthew 4:17). Heaven will open only when we repent. A truly hopeful new year must be cleared of the past
can be met.
We are sorry for not being able to fulfill our vows, our plans, and our dreams.
You must repent. We need to repent for more of the things we did wrong than the things we did well.
All. Jesus said that new wine cannot be put into old wineskins. {student
No one puts a piece of linen on an old garment, because the crooked thing pulls it and breaks it.
The burden is increased, and new wine is not put into old wineskins.
The cotton skins burst, and the wine spilled out, and the skins were thrown away} (Matthew 9:16-17). penitence
like old and new skins, knowing what to throw away and what to take
it will be The prodigal son who left his father's bosom and lived a prodigal life repented and lived in his father's house
Just as we have turned to sin (Luke 15:21), we too must repent to go the way we really should go.
is.
When we truly repent, God gives us new dreams and hopes. But not
Unfortunately, too many people do not repent, they do it.
All. {Godly sorrow is repentance that leads to salvation without regret
and the sorrows of the world work out death] (2 Corinthians 7:10). alcohol and tears
If you only worry about it and regret it, eventually death will come. But the world is not concerned
D, when we look back on our lives in the light of God's will, we will be saved.
is. Therefore, no matter what troubles we are in right now, do not "repent"
Repentance is hearing the voice of God. Repentance is the word of God.
So I am changing the direction of my life. I turned my back on the Lord and went into the world
If you do, you will turn around and come back to the Lord's arms. We change direction so that the light of the Lord
When I look at it, that light shines on me. The light of the Lord three times did not know Jesus
He visited Peter, who had denied that he had said that, and made the great work of world missions accomplished.
In the same way, He raises us up again so that we can accomplish great works like Peter.
All.
Second, thanks
We should thank God for the infinite grace He has given us over the past year. one
You have added grace on top of grace to us who do not deserve it. God's grace
Because of it, I am who I am today. Even the great apostle Paul {what I became
It is by the grace of God} (1 Corinthians 15:10). we make a lot of money,
You shouldn't just be grateful for being healed. God made us who deserve to die
made you a child. When the evil devil rushes to devour us like a roaring lion,
You have kept us. If God had not kept us, we would be safe.
You can not. The psalmist says, {Unless the LORD builds the house, the builders
Toil is in vain, and unless the LORD guards the city, the watchman's watch is in vain.
all} (Psalm 127:1). We are all Ebenezer (1 Samuel 7:12)
Thank you and thank you again.
But above all else, we should be thankful to God for making us work harder.
will be All we can work, serve, and give is by the grace of God.
Door. The Apostle Paul said, {His grace to me was not in vain;
You worked harder than you did, but it wasn't me, but the grace of God that was with me.
Laura} (1 Corinthians 15:10). Anyone can work, anyone can fulfill God's mission
not to do. Working and serving because we are in God's eyes
is. Just as we never give our house or car keys to anyone, God
Nor does he entrust the work of the church to anyone. Therefore, go as God's co-workers
Let's be grateful for the sweat we have given in the church and the world When we are loyal with gratitude, ha
You will share in the joy of God (Matt. 25:23). When we dedicate ourselves with gratitude, heaven
's rewards are accumulating innumerable.
Third, hope
Faith is looking at the past with eyes of gratitude and the future with eyes of hope. Five
If always was the end of our lives, there would be no hope. But God
Give Lee a new day of hope and a new year of blessing. Right now, I'm in despair and failure
Even if you lose, don't give up. Failure is a stage where success has not yet been reached.
It's just. We have a tomorrow to run, and a new year to open.
Therefore, let us not all look back, but, like the apostle Paul,
Let's look. {Brothers, I have not yet counted myself as caught, but only
In other words, forgetting what is behind and aiming to catch what is in front of you,
I also pursue in Jesus for the reward of the high calling of God.} (Phil.
3:13-14).
The reason we can have hope like this is because God gives us a living hope.
(1 Peter 1:3-4). We do not have hope because we have strength, but God
There is hope because of the father. And God doesn't just give us hope.
Yes, God will surely do it. The Bible says {start a good work in you
We are sure that God will bring it to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” (Phil 1:6)
I write. Even if I am weary, God will not be weary until the hope is fulfilled.
(Isaiah 40:28). If you depend only on God, your faith will rise, your faith will run, and your faith will be fulfilled.
It becomes faith (Isaiah 40:31). {But those who wait for the LORD will find refreshment.
It will be like an eagle flying up on its wings, running and not getting weary, walking
will not be weary either} (Isaiah 40:31). Augustine said, “The past is in the mercy of God, the present
Leave the ashes to his love and the future to his providence.”
There is no misfortune or despair in the providence of one God. With new hopes for the new year
Let's go strong. The dreams and visions God has given will come true.
Jesus told us to put new wine in new wineskins. {New wine
Put them in a new bottle so that both are preserved} (Matt 9:17). According to God's Time 2002
Years passed, and 2003 came. Old wine to throw away at the end of the year
Let's sort out old troops. And the new joy of 2003 that God gives in prayer
Let's grab the net.
Prayer
God, help us to discern what is to be thrown away and what to take, and put new wine in new wineskins.
Please help me. In the Lord, repent of the past, give thanks in the present, and in the future
Let me live with hope. I pray in Jesus name.