Title: The Christian Life (Gen. 05:21-24)
What is the Christian life like? It will definitely be different from the life of the world. Then, what are the characteristics of the Christian life that is different from the life of the world?
The people of the world do not insert God into their lives. We don't even think about how the existence of God affects our real life.
On the other hand, the Christian life is a life based on God.
I have to live life. But always think of God.
In the worldly life, I am the foundation, I am the principle, and I am the purpose. But the Christian life is that God is the foundation, principle, and purpose of my life.
For this reason, people in the world have no power of life other than themselves.
A Christian, on the other hand, is God himself. Therefore, it is self-evident whose life will be more prosperous. The lives of God's people are rich.
Christians think of God when the people of the world are desperate because of their limitations. When the people of the world give up their lives because of exhaustion, God starts Christians for them. So the people of the world say “it is over”, but Christians say “it is still there”.
It also proceeds in the faith of professing that the One who is the source of power and strength is supplying and providing. This is the Christian life.
Therefore, the Christian life has no choice but to have power.
As such, a Christian lives a life where God takes the lead and God is important. In fact, this life is essentially our human life. This is the life that God intended from the beginning when he created us.
A life where God is important,
A life that acknowledges God,
This life is the original human life.
Therefore, without thinking about God, human life can only be empty and futile. Many people live with wealth and honor, but without God, they end up feeling futile.
But the strange thing is that people take God out of their lives.
Even though they taste emptiness, they do not think about God.
Many people in the world will live a life without God in this life, and die without God in the life to come. This is the result of life without God. A life that ends in eternal despair.
However, we find in the text one person who throws light in the midst of this generation.
This is Enoch. Through his deeds, we try to think about what the Christian life is like in three ways.
1. What is his life like?
The text tells us about two kinds of life. One is the life up to 5:4-20.
What kind of life is it? A life of birth, life and death - a very ordinary life. It's an ordinary life. It's a life everyone walks through. It is a life that no one says anything about even if we live that way because everyone lives that way. But what is important is God's evaluation of their lives.
There is no record of what-how-it is written that they were born, lived, and died.
It was a life that God had no interest in, nothing to point out, nothing worth evaluating. This is not the path we should walk.
Imagine that our tombstones have nothing to write except that this person was born, lived and died. It's a shame.
Later, when I looked at the writings on the monument at the three-way intersection, there were 10 things written on it, such as estimating, flooding, road expansion, and home improvement.
It is said that the man who was doing neighbourhood work while running a bar at his house, calling young and old people in turn every day to sell alcohol, and lounging around and shouting, was able to make a good living by sizing up.
No matter how hard you try to engrave the deeds of these people on stone, God does not remember them. He only sees them as living and dead.
Now the Ministry of Education
There are reports that the rewrite of the history from 5.16 to 6.29 has begun.
It cannot but be an example that clearly shows how futile human evaluation is. No matter how much we write in books and cry out as historical achievements, we are clinging to these things that even people cannot deceive.
This sentence of life repeated in Genesis shows the cross section of a life lived without God.
What is the result of rejecting God's rule is death.
Satan deceived that he would not die, but God emphasized death by giving birth and then dying.
If life could only leave a record that he died without doing anything... how humble would it be?
Everyone, at this hour, think of my life up to now, and write my scream once. What can be recorded What can be left behind
But we learn from Enoch that we