Title: Steps to Delivering Good Forms
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[The footsteps of those who preach the good news] Isaiah 52:7-10 2006.11.05. Sunday evening worship
1) The resurrected Jesus went to the Mount of Olives with his disciples when the time for the ascension came. The Mount of Olives is a place of special memories for the Lord. Because the Lord prayed all night on this hill called Gethsemane. When the Lord came to this world, He received two great missions. First, you go down into the world and save people. Because of sin, I lose my childhood and die. Second, understand that, and take the heavy road of death called the cross to you. you get the job done That is why the Lord went to the Mount of Olives to pray in order to accomplish these two things in this world. Now that he had left there and stood on the Mount of Olives surrounded by his disciples to return to his father, where he came from, it was a new feeling. And now he is ascending to heaven, but he asks his disciples, thinking that the feet of the Lord who will come again soon will come down right here.
2) I will come to you again in a short time, and then my feet will stand on the Mount of Olives (Zechariah), and I will come again in the same way as you went (Acts). He tells you to preach the news of the gospel, but let it be a step of grace that carries this message over mountains and across rivers.
1. The gospel must be spread like the word good news.
1) The gospel is good news, and it is the news that makes people happy, and when I preach it, it brings joy to those who hear it.
An army of 30,000 in Athens went to war with an army of 180,000 in a place called Marathon. Athenian women and children are anxious to send their husbands and fathers to war. As 180,000 enemy troops came, it would be difficult for us to win. There was an atmosphere of despair that if we lose war, we all die. Towards the end of the war, an Athenian soldier in the distance comes running, gasping for breath. people thought “Coming in such a hurry, it must be news that we will all lose the war and flee.” Then he came to the gate and said, “We have won. We have defeated an army of 180,000.” Then his heart burst and he died. The Athenians were overjoyed. It is because they who thought they were going to die survived the war by winning the war. So, in memory of the soldier who delivered this good news, it is said that he held a running race until the marathon every year on that day. That is the history of the Olympic marathon.
2) How happy were their hearts when they heard the news of their victory? The news of the gospel brings that joy to us.
The words that Jesus said while dying on the cross, “It is finished” are the gospel of joy for us, and the same is true of the words that He showed His body to the disciples on the morning of the resurrection and that I am alive. Jesus tells us that you have received this good news.
3) The gospel of God has been preached to the far East, the end of Asia, around the earth. And 100 years ago in our country, when we were the most hopeless and difficult on this land and exposed naked to foreign invasions, how pitiful we were at that time. It's gone. It's called a spur of the moment. Where did such a large ship appear when a steel warship called Unyangho, which is only about the size of a car ferry that used to go from Mokpo to Jeju Island, appeared in Incheon? Things that were made of iron, didn't sink in the water, fluttered like a ghost ship, and surrendered without even trying to fight once. At that time, we did not know what the world situation was, so we had to rely on Qing. It was a time of ruin when it was all about the enlightenment group who wanted to be friendly with Japan, and the pro-Russian group who wanted to be friendly with Russia.
At that time, only the gospel preached to us was our hope and gave us the strength to come to our senses. The good news of the gospel has been delivered to us.
3. Today's book of Isaiah tells us to take this gospel and become our feet over the mountains.
1) What is the most beautiful thing in the world? Human life. When God created man and breathed life into his nostrils to become a man, calling his name man means that he is a living being. This living means that God is the master of life, and he is a being who has fellowship with him and receives God's grace. So, our most beautiful living form is to receive the life of God and be with him. So, God allowed us to come to us as Adam, who spared Adam's grace. And it is the Lord's request that we, who have received the grace to save us, carry the gospel that saves life and preach it.
3. We are people who bear the gospel together according to the words of Isaiah.
1) The gospel of God is good news for those who bear it and for those who help the ministry together. Just as the gospel of Isaiah was good news to the people by sharing the gospel of the Lord, when we carry the gospel together, send pioneers and support him, the news is also a blessing to us.
2) In mid-September, an official letter came from Gangjin Doam Church to our mission department. Gangjin Doam Church has been planting and building, and it has been in the same situation for four months. It was a situation report. Gangjin Doam Church is a cooperative missionary site where our supporting churches cooperate. This is a church that started planting in the end of the earth to pray together and spread the gospel of the Lord to the ends of the earth. So, in early October, we had a session. And in the session, we decided to help Gangjin Doam First Church to build a church together. Our church was also built and achieved with help from many places in difficult circumstances 50 years ago. Now, if we can bear the difficulties of the church we cooperate with, it is a grace from God and our support church can help the church together. It was decided to actually expand the scope.
Since Gangjin Doam Church needs about 40 million won to build a church with prefabricated panels in the future, the session decided to subsidize 30 million won from the church, but 10 million won free of charge to build the church, and the remaining 20 million won was loaned out. So, the 20 million won loan was repaid by the church in about 3 years, and in order to guarantee this repayment promise, we decided to make provisional registration of real estate on the site of 200 pyeong of Gangjindoam Church in the name of our church. And today we are going to make a donation during the dedication service, and we have decided to make up for the lack of this offering today from the church building cost. As the session decided on this, just as our church planted the first church in the Philippines (Gloria Church in the Philippines), it became the second plantation site to establish a new church in the name of the supporting church in Korea.
3) So today, while we are actually establishing Gangjin Doam First Church, of course, we do not build it entirely, but we offer a dedication service to ask the members of our church to join in and pray for this.
in conclusion
1) Today's Bible teaches us that the work of sharing the gospel of God is precious. And to him who loses together, there is a promise that he will receive the blessings of the gospel pioneer together. Expanding the boundaries of the gospel of God is the expansion of the realm of our church and the number of people entering the gospel because of us.
2) The reason God raised us for 50 years in the barren land of Jiwon-dong is because of this grace.
How beautiful are the footsteps of those who cross the mountain with the Gospel? So, I hope that we will become a beautiful church that spreads the Gospel with our footsteps.