Title: The divine evaluation of time
The spiritual evaluation of time (Ephesians 5:15-17)
Time is called flowing water. Time does not stop and flows according to the providence of God. But there are times when it stops. It is a time of meaning.
The time of history with meaning is alive and works in memory.
At the end of this year, I want to remember and appreciate the grace God has given to the saints. The habit of evaluating and planning throughout life is important
do. Even when God created all things, He always evaluated every day at the end of his work. If you look at Genesis 1, you will see that “God saw that it was good”.
It's possible. It is an evaluation of God's own work.
By having a proper evaluation of the process and results of our lives over the past year, we will be able to devote ourselves more to the coming new year. Choosing and electing a president takes time.
It was a decision of the evaluation of self-interest. Our Korean decision was made with a very economical and realistic pragmatist evaluation.
How should we, as believers, conclude our own evaluation, so that God can praise us for doing well? It is said that our saints are spiritual people. So the spiritual evaluation of time
I would like to ponder the Word on the topic of going.
1. to save time
16 It has been said, “Save the time, for the times are evil.” Here, the original word for saving time, ejxagoravzw, means to rescue opportunity.
It also means to live.
In the Bible, there are two words that express the meaning of time. One is the historical time in which we live yesterday, today, and tomorrow, which is called chronos.
This time is the secular time itself that comes and goes. By the way, here we use the word kairov, which means time of meaning.
For example, 2 Corinthians 6:2, "He said, "I heard you in your time of mercy, and I helped you in the day of salvation. Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation."
It is a word used to describe a time when God is working. It is not a set time, but a time of meaning
Colossians 4:5 says, “Walk wisely toward strangers, saving time.”
Saving time and time does not mean focusing on saving money while working hard all day. Why should we save money and why we should live?
It means to be faithful to the good and right meaning.
Verse 15, 15 “Therefore, be careful how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise.”
Are you? These are people who do not have the real meaning of time and only evaluate them in a secular way. So, it's about the people who haven't been reborn.
You must have the habit of carefully examining the world and analyzing whether it is God's will or not.
have to go Otherwise, the world will be in vain.
We look back and evaluate how much we have honored and lived the Lord's will in the course of the past year by God's grace, and we think of the Lord's will even more as we enter the new year.
You must strive to become a victor.
Today's world has become a cruel world where ideology has disappeared and we have abandoned the heavenly world that we should be protected as a traditional human being. However, as long as you eat well and live well
This is the spirit of people who forget the past of Japan, which was destroyed while trying to conquer the world due to the end of Rome and the hegemony of World War II.
European churches and ideology, which were repeatedly humanized with economicism and material cultureism, resulted in the decline of all the spiritual cultures that preceded them, and now they are on our side.
I have come to a point where I have to do missionary work.
The world's time is finite. It is as fast as an arrow shot, but our saints are not those who will survive for a thousand years. We can live together for 24 hours a day like the old people.
2. They called the world evil
16 “Save the time, for the days are evil.”
We must first understand that times are evil. Here we are talking about the ages of the world. The world has become a world where Satan (the devil) leads to death because of man's original sin.
I threw it away.
Ephesians 2:2 “In those days you walked in them, after the customs of this world, and after the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience.”
1 John 5:19 “And we know that we belong to God, and the whole world lies in the evil one.”
He said that people are not to be trusted, but to be loved. That's right. Even an infant who has no social sins is born as an original sinner and comes out with sin inside.
Human beings die after being economically active and fulfilling their joys and sorrows in the midst of the devil's tactics to breed sin in society.
Regardless of whether he is a criminal or a religious person, he is a miserable life that must be judged by God after he dies while walking on an empty path.
Hebrews 9:27 “It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment.”
Because the world is evil, we constantly reform and live a sincere spiritual life that evaluates, changes, and evaluates to sanctify the center of our lives anew.
is to improve the quality of
Biblically, the evil spirit of the world cannot be renewed through education, system, or politics, and it only gets worse as it gets evaluated eschatologically. just which
Even if there are some blessings due to the activities of Christian ideology to a certain extent, the world is a place of the devil that is always returned to evil, so we cannot expect much.
Award.
Any believer living in this evil history will have something to repent of, and it is a time of self-awareness to recover the lost holy spirituality after making a mistake.
It is a fact that a more sober evaluation is essential.
It is not possible to live a holy life by itself as a believer in this vicious world. Because of this fundamental situation that the world is evil, we must repent and
It means you can't help but change. I think that the attitude of making new efforts after being changed is the spirit of the saints passing the years and welcoming new ones again.
The world will not be interested in our deliberation because they have no rebirth, and there is no God or judgment. But we will live in the same world again.
As we wait for the world to come, we evaluate how evangelical our life is in order to be a witness to the gospel of salvation through a life that will become more light and salt in the evil world.
I think it's very important.
1 Corinthians 2:14,15 “The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, which to them are foolishness, and they do not understand them, because these things are spiritual.
The change is that the spiritual person judges all things, but he himself is judged by no one.”
The natural man, yuchv, means natural man, and the spiritual word pneumatikov" refers to a supernatural, religious, and spiritual person.
do.
3. Live a life that understands the will of the Lord
17 “Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.” Romans 12:2 “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Accept it so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.” There are people who are not Christians who go to church. Cross and church
Not all groups of saints of God are the same. There are cults, and in general, there are many people who go to church as religious people.
In the past, the early church actively understood, taught, and longed for the deep will of God, such as words that are useless in social life.
Right now, I am more interested in the story of eating well and living well in sermons because I am so focused on the things I can see and get my hands on rather than the deep will of God. this is
In fact, it is a very wrong, non-religious sermon that destroys the spirituality of Christianity, and the sermon may not be a sermon, but rather a speech that lives well in reality.
There is a saying that you are a person without a root. Without ideology or value, and without any basis for ideology, they only know what goes into their mouths for free.
格) means a person who lives with
The communist philosophy is that as long as the result is good, any method is fine. It is a philosophy that has been criticized by the old history. The idea of communism has collapsed.
The way of thinking of the water museum (唯物史觀) is pervasive in today's modern church society.
Our Korean church has already moved away from spirituality. Indulged in outward blessings and large church buildingism and pragmatism, they lost the essence of holy saints. If you know, three
Even if Sang-sang lives like that, sometimes he is impressed by the attitude of idealistic religious people who look beyond material things.
In a worldly world, wouldn't this be a serious problem?
In order to understand what the will of the Lord is, I cried, beat my chest and beat the ground every day, even though it seemed that I believed well and lived a good life in the past.
We prayed in the mountains and fields, and we often gathered in the chapel to pray for repentance in tears.
Now, I can't find a reason for that because I don't have any sins, but I think it's not because I don't have sins, but because I have too many sins to consider. maybe
What I see would be correct.
The Bible says
Ephesians 4:1 “Therefore, I, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling to which you have been called.”
The Tao should be those who are deeply concerned with the quality of life in accordance with the Lord's command to strive for holiness and to be light and salt.
For the evaluation of life as such spiritual people, we should pray, Ephesians 1:17 “God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,
Give you the spirit so that you may know God.” Paul prayed for the Ephesians to know God's will and live in the spirit of spiritual revelation.
We say that we are living in the last days, but we are fundamentally unaware that this world is rolling under the existence of the devil, and we are being devalued by a very secular evaluation
I did.
We belong to God and are spiritual descendants.
Therefore, they are the ones who have a reason to struggle to make a spiritual evaluation while living in the world, and to pray and struggle because they want to understand it according to the standards of the Bible.
We believe that we should be faithful to our sacred religious duty to maintain and develop our original temperament even for the sake of the world that is looking at us.
There were many blessings from God this year as well. Rescue us both physically and spiritually in turbulent times, and teach us in unchanging love
Thank you for supporting me in my religious life and reality, and for living with the wisdom to honor the will of the Lord rather than complaining in the midst of my weakness.
------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------
Source: Cyber Theological Seminary View original Author: nulserom