Title: The Cross and the Reformation
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title; The Cross and the Reformation (Galatians 2:20)
Is the word reform boring? It is always the weariness of the unmotivated of the divine. Do you think reform is relative? It is the indolence of those who do not know the cross of Christ. Don't know what to reform? It is because they do not know the truth and do not know the reality of the world ruled by darkness, which Satan's schemes steal and kill. Do you not know how to reform? It is because we do not know Jesus, who has all authority in heaven and on earth through his death on the cross and resurrection and who is always with us to the end of the world.
Reform is for the purpose of salvation. Reform is not the ultimate goal to change people's consciousness and solve the structural problems of the world. Reform goes through such a process, of course, but God's will to reform is to save mankind. It is untruth to go against human salvation. The reform movement is the truth restoration movement. What is the truth that saves us from sin and death and all untruths. So, the high banner is only faith, only the Bible, only grace, and only the Christian.
History inside and outside Christianity has been challenged by numerous untruths. The Holy Spirit has fought with the spirit of the blood of Christ on the cross to build the church of God as the pillar and ground of the truth, in which no one inch of land is given up from untruth. The forefathers of faith obeyed this work with a martyr spirit.
Reforms aimed at the salvation of eternal life are of absolute value. But with what absolute value are today's churches and leaders obedient? Too many untruth challenges continue. The church's infiltration by heresy, the church's chaos caused by theology outside the Bible, and the church's inability to rely on the wisdom and power of the Holy Spirit, weaken the will to reform, and the church is collapsing.
You have to live from the church. Leaders must be awake. The truth of life and the truth of salvation must be revealed clearly. We must defeat the darkness of Satan. How can we restore a church that can do that? We ourselves must be reformed, and the continual reform must become a living, lasting church. It should not be stagnant water. Just as a river of living water flows, the work of the Holy Spirit always breathes, and the work of holiness that frees us from all sins and untruths must always continue.
We do not have the will to reform ourselves. This is the will of the Holy Spirit. The more we are sanctified by the blood of Christ, the fresher our will to reform is, and the stronger we live. And he prays for our circumstances with groanings that cannot be uttered, so that we may know his wisdom. Therefore, the grace of Jesus Christ's death on the cross and resurrection is the only power that can change us. Even what we do not know, even what is in our soul, spirit, and marrow, so that the proud church can mourn and repent. Let's rely on the living and moving Word that works!
Start with the cross of Christ! He, the grace and power of the cross, saved sinners who were enemies of God and who truly need to be reformed as a whole. He saved us from the point of death that we cannot live by ourselves, according to the law of faith in Christ alone. As we did, the work of reform and change that saves humans, the church, and the world and restores them according to God's order is impossible except for the cross of Christ.
This is possible only through the grace of Christ on the cross. It is the only power that can change us as sinners. With the truth of God, we must break all false and unrighteous thoughts within us. As the Lord is with us through the Holy Spirit and is with us in His full grace, we can clearly know God's deep heart toward ourselves, the church, and the world.
The end of the reformation is that Christ lives fully in us. Reform is not content with possessing thoughts like the philosophers. Reform must have a blessed reality. That is salvation, enjoying the kingdom of heaven, and filling all things. This is done only through the cross of Christ.
Only let Jesus, who was crucified, live in me! Do not doubt the Lord who lives in me! Communicate in the Holy Spirit as you breathe always, and let the sovereignty of the Lord live! There, you will come to know God's will to reform, to know the content to be reformed, and to have the martyr's will to reform.