Title: The Blessing of the Spiritually Disabled
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Bible: Matthew 18:1-10 Title: Blessings of the Spiritually Disabled
Jesus is good at answering fellow students. Disciples, who is the greatest in heaven? This is a nuanced question that asks you to tell the ranks of the disciples. Jesus saw through his vision of creating a model for heaven and the sinful motives of destroying the dream community, and warned him with the story of hell.
1. If your hand or your foot causes you to sin... your eyes... (8,9)
(Matthew 5:29-30) Sin causes one's members to sin. Sin doesn't make other people sin. The serpent took the fruit of the fruit of good and evil, cut it into bite-size pieces, put it on a splendid plate, and held the fork in Eve's hand and did not tell her to eat it. When he heard the serpent's lie with his ears, he saw it with his own eyes and found it to be sweet and delicious, so he picked it up with his own hands and brought it to his mouth. And she lied to tempt her husband to go and eat. There is no excuse for sin, just as there is no grave without excuse. All of them make themselves guilty. Why did God create human beings with two eyes, two ears, two hands, and two feet? If you want one eye to be used as a tool for crime, that means the other should be a watchman to stop it. Wasn't he considering that the hands and feet worked together as a team to build up the body? (1 Corinthians 12:14-27) If one member breaks down, perhaps he has taken consideration to replace it with a sphere? It is the Lord's lesson that if one's members cause one to sin, cut it off. It is the lesson that the body and community live only when the corruption of sin is prevented.
2. Cut it out (8)
If every criminal who commits a crime like a Muslim amputated all his members, the world would be full of disabled people. Movies dealing with the history of ancient warfare often show stories of long-standing soldiers who save their lives by cutting off or cutting off their own members with a fire knife when their hands or feet are wounded by arrows or swords during war. The fertility of a plant called prickly pear imported from North America in the 1980s is said to be a monster that kills other plants by covering a 5m radius of a single stem within two weeks. You can see the persistence of sin. Like the thorns and thistles growing on the east side of Eden, it shows the fragility of human beings that can only survive through struggle with sin. If we do not wake up spiritually and pull out the world like thorns and the sins of lust, the crop fields will be covered with thorns.
He taught us that we should cut off our sins thoroughly and mercilessly and live a holy life.
3. It is better to enter into eternal life than to enter into eternal fire (8:9)
Eternal life is the life that God originally gave to man. He blessed people so that they would never die and live forever by eating the fruit of the tree of life, but they lost that blessing because they sinned. Jesus also taught in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus about hell, that the souls who have sinned will suffer forever. If there is no hell and resurrection, we will die tomorrow, so let's eat and drink today.
4. Do not despise any of these little ones (10)
The younger ones who enter eternal life are happier than the older ones who go into the fires of hell. The world envys the great man who does not receive punishment for committing sins as he pleases. However, we must heed the Lord's warning and do not despise the little ones of the faith who do not sin. It is said that if you lose your health, you lose everything. If you lose your faith, you lose everything. Faith should not be regarded as a small child.
Conclusion/For the sake of the kingdom of God, help us become healthy happy people who share the blessing of eternal life even when we become disabled and small children.