Title: The Blessing of the Trinity Faith
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Today is Trinity Sunday in the church calendar. The Trinity Faith is a unique Christian confession of faith. However, not many people fully understand its meaning. Because, in fact, the content of the Trinity Creed itself is not well understood in a rational and rational way.
However, for people before the 17th and 18th centuries, the content of the Trinity Creed was not such a big deal. Because the people of that era had faith first. That is, even if you don't understand, just believe.
However, since the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries, even faith has been influenced by rational and rational trends, and people tend not to believe in things that are not understood with their own minds. Of course, such tendencies played a good role in making up for the weakness of religion, which is prone to self-righteousness and self-righteousness, but on the other hand, there is a sad background that many people who pursue deep spirituality like those of the previous era disappeared it has become
If you look at the works of the Holy Spirit that are taking place today, you can see that none of them are made by human plans or efforts, and everything is entirely the direct exercise of God's sovereignty.
Of course, sometimes there are false prophets who try to imitate God's work, but they often see that they build their houses on sand and soon collapse. I sincerely hope that you will become people who depend only on God, building their houses on the rock of strong faith.
The Trinity faith seems to be an explanation of God, but it is not actually an explanation of God. In the Bible, God does not need to explain to us who He is. When Moses asked who God was, what did God say? He simply replied, “I am me!” That wasn't a very friendly explanation. If I told you, I wouldn't even understand, but what would you do if you dared to tell me? There is a huge qualitative difference between God and us that we cannot even compare or understand.
We know that God's name is 'Jehovah' through the Bible, but we don't know anything more than that. All we know is that God is love, and that He is all-powerful, omniscient, fair and just, faithful, good...etc. of God's attributes. However, even the information we know about God is, in fact, things we have learned through experience, not things God has taught us directly. These are things I have learned through experiences of encounters and relationships.
Therefore, if you really want to know who God is, you must first meet with Him and establish an intimate relationship with Him. This means that you must continue your life of worship, hymn, prayer, and meditation on the Word.
Because God is the Creator, He doesn't feel the need to explain Himself to us as creatures. Also, as creatures, we cannot dare to ask God to reveal our identity. There is only a relationship between God and us.
Therefore, the belief in the Trinity is also a statement of God's relationship with man rather than an explanation of God. Therefore, the Trinity faith should not be knowledge, but a confession of our existential life.
Meeting God, God the Father, the Creator and ruler of the world, who is the Alpha and Omega, the Son Jesus Christ who became incarnate, died, and rose again to save us from the power of sin and death, and who will one day return. I hope that you will all meet and experience God the Holy Spirit who communicates with us.
Electrical energy essential for our lives can be divided into force energy, light energy, and thermal energy. Although all three appear distinct and stand-alone, they are in fact one electrical energy. Force energy turns an electric motor. Light energy appears as a lamp. The heat energy is used to generate hot air from an electric stove or heater.
In the same way, God comes to us in an intimate way that satisfies our needs. Sometimes in the image of the Almighty Creator or the majestic Father, sometimes in the image of Jesus who has the same humanity as us and understands and comforts us in our weaknesses, and the Holy Spirit who fills and guides our hearts like the wind like fire and living water. He is a God who is with us in His image.
Again, please do not try to understand the Trinity doctrine in your own head. So far, many people have tried to understand and explained many things, but trying to understand with their heads only overloads and complicates things. Even Jesus would not want to live a life of faith so complicated.
St. Augustine was walking along the beach one day, struggling to understand the doctrine of the Trinity. Then he saw a small child playing alone on the white sand. The child had made a small puddle on the white sandy beach and filled the puddle by pouring seawater into a small gourd. Augustine asked the boy what he was doing. The boy replied that he was going to put all the seawater in the puddle. Then Augustine said to the boy, “You are so stupid. How can you put that great sea in this little puddle?” Then the child answered. “It is more foolish to try to comprehend with your little head the mysteries of God greater than the sea.” And then it suddenly disappeared.
Although the content of the Trinity Creed is very profound and difficult, its practical application is very clear and a source of great blessing to us.
The form of the Trinity Creed is that of harmony. Although God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit work differently and have different roles, they have one unified personality. In the same way, we must become individuals in harmony with spirituality, reason, and emotion. A person who is too rational is easy to lead a hard and dry life. Also, people who are too emotional may lose their sense of reality.
If you lean on your religious beliefs, you may be able to become a moral and ethical religious person and be respected in the world. That was Jesus' very strong caution and criticism.
Conversely, if you lean on your emotional faith, your religious life may be fun, and you may be able to receive recognition and praise for your faith in the church by passionately engaging in various disciplines and church work. If you do, you can become a light believer who soon shows the floor.
Therefore, our faith should only harmonize reason and emotion through spirituality through right relationship with God.
The application of the Trinity faith also bears direct fruit in real life. That is what is revealed in 3 John verse 2, the text of today's text.
The text tells us that if our souls prosper, all things will go well, and our bodies will also be healthy. I hope you believe this.
These things are possible because God loves us.
Believing in Jesus and being saved is not just a spiritual event. It is an event that occurs throughout our lives. To receive eternal life by believing in Jesus does not only mean the heaven where you will go after the death of the body, but also to live in this world without being bound by the natural law, and by being under the direct rule of God that transcends reality, everything goes well and your body is healthy. It means to be blessed. All of this is possible only through faith. I bless you that all such things will happen to you in the name of Jesus Christ.
However, looking at the world these days, it seems that people in the world believe this fact better than Christians. Do you know how many people are interested in classes such as danjeon breathing, yoga, and mind control that take care of the mind and make the body and all things good?
Because Christianity doesn't do what it should be, people are leaving the church and flocking to those classes. They are satisfied with other ways of doing things that are sufficiently possible with prayer, praise, and meditation on the Word.
Did you know that almost all of the practices that are popular in the world are those of other religions? Without realizing it, people's spirits are being driven into danger. If you do it wrong, Satan can take their spirits from you because of your wrong spirituality.
I earnestly ask that you do not depart from God's love. If the world knows how to do it, I want you to believe that God's instructions and teaching methods are more complete and safer.
Believe in God. God is faithful. The Trinity faith is a mode of communication of love. Those who have seen me have seen the Father. Just as Jesus said, through the experience of the Holy Spirit, we came to believe that Jesus died on the cross for the forgiveness of our sins and that just as He was resurrected, we too will not die but live forever. I hope that God's all-round grace will come to you. Also, I earnestly pray that you will receive the blessing of the soul, the blessing of all things, and the blessing of physical health from the Lord.