Title: The God Who Sees and Revenges
Contents
1. Words that begin
Just as in the 7th century B.C., the king, servants, and people of the southern kingdom of Judah turned to Assyria or Egypt instead of trusting and relying on God in times of national crisis, so even among modern Christians, when faced with a crisis, other people instead of clinging to God. There are a lot of people who believe in and cling to this as a solution.
At that time, the prophet Jeremiah declared, “Cursed is the man who believes in man, whose power is flesh and blood, and whose heart turns away from the LORD.” ” he declared.
It is not only because our hearts have departed from God that we cannot help but be cursed to believe in and use as our strength as a fellow human being. This is because the heart of man itself is deceitful above all things and is deeply corrupt.
2. The human heart is deceitful and corrupt above all things
The common fundamental purpose of all ethical and moral lessons, philosophical and educational ideas, religious doctrines, etc., although there are some differences in content, can be said to be self-actualization and self-maximum realization. Another thing, whether secular or religious, is the fulfillment of dreams, achievements of goals, and achievements of goals in one's life path. It is by no means an easy task, but it has been taught that the most desirable life and the happiest life are those whose inner self-actualization and external achievement are in harmony.
All these teachings presuppose that good and good potential is inherent in man. Of course, the leaders who taught that way had a sense of pride or pride that they had reached, or were close to, themselves.
However, God declared, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” A person with the minimum courage to face himself, the minimum wisdom to examine one's heart, and the minimum conscience to be honest even for a moment will not be able to deny this stern declaration of God.
No matter how noble a person is, no matter how cultured he is, if you look into his heart, do you not see intense sinfulness and selfishness? Even though they are usually well camouflaged, their sinfulness and selfishness always come out when problems of money, power, or honor are involved. The Bible declares that all human beings are born in sin, live under sin and perish. Psalm 51:5 says, “I was born in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me”; Romans 3:10 says, “As it is written, there is none righteous, not even one.”
A nation made up of human beings with a heart that is deceitful and corrupt above all things is no different.
The United States, both a developed country and a great power, used to say that companies in developing countries often sanction companies from receiving government help or benefits. An article was published stating that it is expected to become a major issue in the international trade arena due to the maintenance of unfair trade practices that give tax cuts.
The basis of realistic international relations is also the priority of national interest. Aid to foreign countries is always in some way directly linked to their own interests.
These days, developing and underdeveloped countries ask for the return of the cultural assets that were plundered in their ancestors, but the so-called developed countries do not listen. No, if you know that it was something stolen by your ancestors, of course you would say, “I’m sorry. And shouldn't it be returned? It's ridiculous to see what morals, conscience, and ideology are like in a country where they know they've been stolen but they don't give it back.
Where on earth has there been, and where will there be, a man without a single blemish or blemish from birth to death? All things live and die according to the created instinctual wisdom, and move according to the created natural order. Humans, who were specially created to rule all things according to the Word, are not only against the order of creation, but also sin against God. It is being a slave. Besides, I don't know why there are so many excuses.
An inventor told a friend that he had developed an amazing computer. “What is it?” ' asked a friend. “It's a computer very human-like,” replied the inventor. “You mean you don’t know how to think,” said a friend, looking like he knew. It is said that the inventor frowned and replied, "It's not that, you're doing something wrong and blaming other computers."
Being born again, I do not mean to build a wall with a rotting world and live a noble life. Rather, it means that the Lord came to love this generation, and in the end, we must live a life that becomes the light and salt of the world by imitating the person who took up the cross to save everyone in the world.
We, who believe in the Lord, are saved and live as God's children, should break our dreams of humanity toward this generation and allow us to have dreams of God who regenerates us in the Lord.
3. The God of Retribution
As we all know well, life in this world is not the way we want it to be. God, please believe in the fact that the God of retribution is sure to live and work. Verse 10 declares, “I, the LORD, search the heart and test the lungs; I give recompense to each one according to his deeds and deeds.”
In 139:1ff, the psalmist writes, “You have searched and knew me, O LORD; You know when I sit down and when I rise, You know my thoughts from afar; You see my way and my lying down; You are well acquainted with all my actions, O LORD. There is not one thing that is not ignorant of the words of my tongue.”
Galatians 6:7 et seq., “Do not deceive yourself, for God is not deceived; whatever a man sows, that he also will reap. will reap eternal life.”
Because this world is deceitful and corrupt, the unrighteous can prevail and gain wealth, power, fame, and so on. It could be enough. However, the problem is that when the time comes, we can never escape God's retribution. Just as a partridge incubates an egg that it did not lay, but the bird that emerges from the egg eventually leaves it, the time will come when the wealth of those who disregard it will surely leave. As a result, it will only be revealed that you are a vain, foolish person.
Proverbs 23:5 says, “How can you pay attention to futility? Surely riches will make wings and fly away like the eagles in the sky.”
All human self-realization and all achievements apart from God must disappear at the time of death or before death. Therefore, the most important thing in life before God who sees is to believe in the Lord and be born again. In Ephesians 4:22 and below, “Put off the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, that you put on the new man, which after God was created in righteousness and holiness of truth.” Said.
4. Conclusion
Neither ourselves nor any human thought nor any human religion can save man. Why? Because neither the thinker nor the head of that religion were born in sin, live in sin, and doomed to death. Because they too have a human heart that is more deceitful than all things that exist according to the created instinctive wisdom or the natural order.
Our God sees the heart of man and rewards him according to his deeds and deeds. We earnestly pray that all of us who have been regenerated by the grace of the Lord will receive the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit through a life of sowing for the Holy Spirit, and further enjoy eternal life.
(Pungseong Methodist Church. Books: Complete Commentary on New Testament Volume 27/ Commentary on difficult scriptures/ Prayer of Prosperity/ Salvation Before Jesus Came/ Salvation Before Jesus Came/ Understanding Paul’s Humanity/ Sermonbook 18. T. 426-3051)