Title: Sell All You Have and Buy Heaven!
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Text: Matthew 13:44-50
Title: Sell All Your Own and Buy Heaven!
The Israelites were zealous in the flesh, as if they knew all about God, even though they did not know the deep meaning of God. Those who can understand and know the deep will of God can only understand the deep will of God except the Son who came from the bosom of the Father. Until he came, no one in the world could understand the deep will of God. Even Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who are said to be the fathers of faith, could not understand the deep will of God. They were merely used as people who foreshadowed the coming Jesus. Also, great prophets such as Moses, Samuel, Elijah, and Elisha were not people who knew the will of God, but they also performed the partial work of Jesus who was to come according to God's instructions through angels. That is why Jesus said to his disciples, “I tell you the truth, many prophets and the righteous have sought to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it” (Matthew 13:17).
Therefore, the appearance of Jesus in the land of Israel is the same as God Himself appearing in the human world in the flesh. This is truly surprising. Until Jesus came, God had performed all things through servants called angels, but after Jesus came, God Himself came to the human world to save humans. However, the people of God who have served God so diligently did not honor God who appeared in the human world in the flesh, but rather cursed, beat, spit, and killed them as heretical monsters because they did not match their will. Even looking at it, it is clear that they were not serving God, but serving God's adversary, the devil.
This is also true of the Gentiles today. As Christians today have received the Holy Spirit and are living under it, it seems that they themselves know the deep will of God well, but in reality they are living their faith without knowing anything about God except a little physically. Because they are still just people (a servant cannot understand the master's will), and God has not revealed any of the deep will of heaven to them, the Gentiles must come spiritually in order to properly understand God's deep will. It is only possible through the Son (the Spirit of Christ). Like the people of Israel, if the Gentiles look forward to their zeal without knowing anything about God, their zeal will eventually lead to salvation, so that zeal will eventually become 'their own righteousness'. It is self-evident that we will not believe in the Son who comes spiritually because we will believe more This shows that the Israelites did not believe in the God who came in the flesh at that time, but rather believed and trusted their own thoughts.
Today, Gentiles clearly know that they are the spiritual people of Israel, but they only want to follow visible signs, so they are only hoping for physical healing, and it is very dangerous to see that they only pursue signs and signs that they see with their eyes. It can be seen that there is no match. If the Gentiles do not continue to abandon this mindset, Christians today will have no spiritual encounter with the Lord. Only the Lord who comes spiritually can give us the kingdom of heaven, but if Gentiles do not meet the Lord at the end even though they have lived a good life of faith, they have lived a life in vain. In order for our lives we have lived so far to never be in vain, we must try to buy the kingdom of heaven even if we sell all our possessions in order to meet the master of heaven who has come spiritually before our eyes.
If there is anyone who hesitates even after seeing heaven with their own eyes, this person is not worthy of possessing the kingdom of heaven. Previously, I had neglected the kingdom of heaven because I did not know it, but now everything is more certain, and being lazy and procrastinating, knowing that the kingdom of heaven is closer and closer to our eyes, is clearly the behavior of a person who has no desire to possess it. . No matter how much these people want to own heaven, the heavenly master will not allow them. What happens to the end when we lose our possession of heaven, we all know well without needing to explain further here. If all of our purpose is to possess heaven, then boldly abandoning me and selling all my possessions to live in heaven will be the most precious life for me.