Title: The Comforter's cry
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Bible Text: John 16:7-11
The Comforter's cry
The management philosophy of “Nippon Computer”, which started as a subcontractor and has grown into a world-leading global company, is “telephone management”. It's a terrifying scream. The employees work with tears in their eyes. The company's founder, Shigenobu Nagamori, said, "The difference between a first-class company and a third-class company is not the quality of the product, but the quality of the employees. If his abilities are first-class, but his humanity is third-class, his performance is bound to be less than an error.” He's been training to build humanity, and he's been ruthlessly yelling at him. They nurtured people by shouting, and those people created a company.
“When the Comforter comes, he will rebuke sin, and righteousness, and judgment, and the world's wrong thinking” (verse 8). The Comforter is the spirit of shouting. To transform humanity into the character of God. Why are you yelling? In order to make a human-like human being, he calls out to become a man of God.
over sin
“He will come and convict the world of sin” “Of sin, because they do not believe in Me” (verse 9). The Comforter's rebuke is everyone. “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). He rebukes unbelievers. Not believing is a great sin. A mortal sin is a sin of unbelief, and a venial sin is a sin of works.
Jesus said. “...I said to you, that you will die in your sins. If you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins” (John 8:24).
The Comforter rebukes unbelief. You shout why you don't believe it. If you do not believe, you will be judged. Jesus rarely praised his disciples. It's always just reproach. Why do you have no faith? (Mark 4:40) How is your faith so small? (Matthew 17:20) It is just reproach. He praised the Gentiles many times, but the disciples were stingy. Why? Because right now, that's not enough. There are expectations that Jesus expects of his disciples. It seems that you still have a long way to go to reach that expectation.
The purpose of rebuking is to nurture more. This is to improve the quality. The Comforter observes deeply and calls out to raise me as a timber.
As Peter was walking on the water, he was conscious of the wind and fell into the water. Jesus did not commend Peter for his courageous faith. When he saw the wind and was afraid, he pulled Peter up from drowning and rebuked him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” (Matthew 14:31)
“For command is a lamp, and the law is light, and the reproof of instruction is the way of life” (Proverbs 6:23).
“At that time, he rebuked the towns in which Jesus gave the greatest power to them because they did not repent, but woe to you, Korazin, to Bethsaida, if all the mighty works that you did to you had been done in Tire and Sidon, they would have already put on sackcloth and sat in ashes and repented. would have said” (Matthew 11:20-21).
He rebuked you for not believing. Even after seeing miracles and powers, they did not believe.
When Jesus was entering Capernaum, a centurion came to Jesus and asked him to say that my servant was suffering from a paralysis. Jesus said, “I will go and heal you.” The centurion said, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come into my house. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed. I did.
When Jesus heard this, he said, “I have not found such great faith in anyone in Israel” (Matthew 8:10). He praised the faith of the Gentiles.
The Comforter's cry is a rebuke from love. It is a rebuke to convince those who do not believe, and to make those who believe better. I scream because I really love you. “He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently” (Proverbs 13:24).
shouts about righteousness.
“He will come and convict the world of righteousness” “Of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you see Me no more” (verse 10). You have to realize that you are doing it. We must realize that the work of Christ's complete redemption is going to the Father.
The family was gathering and having dinner. My father suddenly said with a serious expression. I have dinner tonight and ascend to God. Listen carefully to your mother and study hard. You will also meet me when the time is right. The children were afraid to hear the words of the father, but the mother was only eating rice and spoke in a quiet tone. “Shut up, eat some barley rice and go to sleep.” The wife was scolding her husband for talking nonsense. Hearing his wife's rebuke, he rubbed the barley rice and ate and slept.
The righteousness that the Comforter calls out is false righteousness. It was because he did not understand the righteousness of Jesus when Peter was severely rebuked by Jesus to go away, Satan.
Peter didn't think Jesus had to die, and he thought that Jesus had to die. Peter's righteousness is to live, and Jesus' righteousness is to die.
The Comforter calls out the pursuit of unattainable righteousness. There is no body that can be justified by keeping the law. But Israel was trying to be righteous by keeping the law. The Comforter rebukes it.
“What then shall we say? For the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have obtained righteousness, which is righteousness from faith. What is it that Israel, who followed the law of righteousness, has not reached the law? For they do not rely on faith, but on works. stumbled upon a stone to be struck” (Romans 9:30-32).
The Jews tried to keep the law, but they did not accept Jesus. They failed to attain righteousness by rejecting Jesus and rejecting him.
“I testify that they were zealous for God, but not according to knowledge; not knowing the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to the righteousness of God” (Romans 10:2-3).
Everyone! No one can be justified by works. Anyone who believes in Jesus will be saved. Jesus fulfilled the law so that there may be righteousness for all who believe in Christ. He said that I did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it (Matthew 5:17). By believing in Jesus, we keep the law.
“We acknowledge that a person is justified not by works of the law, but by faith” (Romans 3:28). The Comforter calls out the righteousness of the law. Please be righteous by faith.
shouts at the referee.
“Of judgment he will convict the world.” “Of judgment, because the king of this world has been judged” (verse 11). To say that the king was judged means that all human judgments are not fair.
“Now the judgment of the world has come, and the ruler of this world will be cast out” (John 12:31). When the Counselor comes, He will judge the world.
“God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him. He who believes in him will not be judged, and he who does not believe will be judged already because he does not believe in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, but men loved darkness more than light, because their deeds were evil” (John 3:17-19).
Believers are not judged. The Comforter's cry is directed at those who believe in Jesus but are not confident. Believers must believe that they are excluded from judgment. Just as if you do not believe you will be judged, so those who believe will not be judged and there will be no condemnation. “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1).
Belief is the criterion for determining whether or not there is sin. Believe it or not believe it. A fair trial requires a thorough on-the-spot investigation and listens to your statements in order to judge soberly and judge fairly. Do you believe in Jesus? In front of that question, only the answer of the party is required. “Yes, I believe!” That's it.
We know the story of Solomon's trial. Both women had children at the same time. A woman accidentally killed her child. He traded his dead child for another woman's baby. When he woke up, the baby next to him was dead. I looked and it wasn't my child. They claim that the living baby is theirs. When Solomon heard the story of both women, he had his servant bring the sword. The idea is to divide a child in two and give them half. One woman told her to do it, and she also begged her not to put a knife to the baby because she would give up. Who is real is revealed (1 Kings 3:16-28).
Solomon's judgment is a judgment of wisdom, and it is the supreme judgment that God will see and judge as right. There is a saying that “the judge makes no excuses”. No one can protest the case that God has judged and that God has judged. Because he has made the most complete and fairest judgment.
For the Comforter to reprove judgment, it is to examine whether the judgments of the people have been well-made and to call upon them for their wrongdoing. The Comforter judges wrong judgment.
It's easy to make an idiot just by complimenting. A decent person was created by being scolded. If you get scolded as an emotion, you can't be big. Conversely, if you accept rebuke sweetly and fix yourself, you will develop. If you have “developmental repulsion” while being scolded, that person will grow as much as you want.
The “me” that the Counselor expects is to grow into Jesus Christ. The Comforter is the spirit of wailing. To make us big characters. You are making third-class into second-class and second-class into first-class. It hurts more by stabbing the sore spot. The process of making pearls is that the piercing and painful tears are coagulated into pearls of great value.
Nagamori, the president of Nippon Computer, is confident that the more you shout, the more “positive repulsion” you can create, and you can become a talented person who can compete with your skills. It is the dream of the Comforter to create talented people with character and skills through shouting.
Hear the cry of the Comforter. May you grow and progress by accepting the cry of sin, of righteousness, of judgment.