Title: The Great Will of God
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God's great will
(Jan. 28, 2007) (Genesis 11:1~9)
In the shamanic beliefs that Koreans had long considered to be faith, they feared God.
To appease the wrath of the gods, they performed rites, and even stepped on the gods to keep them from moving.
Perhaps because that habit remains, we can see Christians fearing God.
If you live a life of faith because you are afraid of being punished by God, it is not a good life of faith.
God does not openly punish. He doesn't even take a whip.
Rather, if punishment for wrongdoing is given to up to three generations, the reward for beautiful faith is rewarded up to a thousand generations.
And God was pleased to bless people from the beginning.
All members of Kyungil Church who believe in God and receive God's love, pray that you will always receive blessings according to God's first will.
1. God who wants to bless you.
In the beginning, God created man in God's image.
And when he saw man created in the image of God, he was satisfied. liked it very much
① He promised blessings to the first man, Adam.
(Genesis 1:28) - "God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth. ”-Amen!!
Since then, Adam and his descendants have lived with many mistakes, but still - he did not take away this blessing he had promised in the first place. - You made the earth multiply in abundance, subdue it, and have dominion over all living things.
② He promised Noah the same blessing.
(9:1-2) - "God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, and every beast of the earth, and every bird of the air, and every creeping thing on the earth, and of the sea All fish will be afraid of you, and they will be afraid of you, for these have been given into your hands.
God promised the same blessings to Adam, the first man, and to Noah, who survived the flood judgment and opened a new world.
You have given me a beautiful and great blessing to be fruitful and multiply, to subdue the whole earth and to rule over all living things.
We believe that the same beautiful and great blessing He gave to our ancestors Adam and Noah has also been given to us. I pray that you will receive this blessing together. - May we be blessed to fill the earth, to subdue it, and to rule over it.
I wish you a prosperous family, prosperous descendants, and wealth. The church also wants to be revitalized.
2. The thought of a fool.
God loves people very much. Believers must not forget the great love of God.
However, those who do not have faith and those whose faith has grown cold do not understand God's love. Forgetting God's love. Ignoring God's love. No - They try to live while ignoring the existence of God.
As Noah's descendants passed through several generations, they prospered in many descendants, and their technology developed and they lived happily ever after. - But gradually they were moving away from God. Faith has cooled. So what do they do?
(11:3-4) - “They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and burn them.” So they replaced stones with bricks and pitched mud instead of mud. And they said, “Come, let us build a city and a tower, and make the top of the tower sweet to heaven. They said, “Let’s make a name and avoid being scattered all over the face of the earth.”
① They rely on their skills and knowledge.
They have already developed enough intelligence and technology to make bricks instead of stones and to use bitumen instead of mud. - But they did not thank God for the wisdom and skill - but they became proud, knowing that the intelligence and the skill were theirs. - Let's build strong cities and high towers with our knowledge and our skills.
We must not imitate the folly of turning away from God, relying on wisdom that will soon be destroyed and technology that will soon fail.
② I fell into the folly of giving my name.
Man can be glorified only when God glorifies him.
King Herod tried to glorify himself and was destroyed. King Saul also fell while trying to maintain his own glory. It was the same with those who had gathered in the Plains of Shinar.
Now that their technology has developed - with that technology - they want to make a name for themselves.
They were foolish people who did not intend to glorify God and were busy making up their own names.
Far from being a good name - they have become the masters of language confusion all over the land. What began to be immortalized in their names quickly ended in failure.
We, who should live for the glory of God, must not become foolish people who steal the glory of God for our own glory.
③ Disobeying the will of God is the greatest foolishness.
God clearly said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the whole earth” and “Subdue the earth.”
But their plan was a direct rejection of God's will.
“Let us build a city, and let us not be scattered all over the face of the earth.” - What a stupid plan.
It is God's will that the whole earth be filled, and it is a great blessing for mankind.
Their work of disobeying God's will in order to boast of their skills and make a name for themselves has completely failed.
Their skills were useless before the power of God. The name they wanted to shine so much was left as a loser. The will of God, which was so disobedient, was a great will that could never be disobeyed.
Dear saints - Always - I pray that you will be saints who give all glory to God and happily obey God.
3. God bless you according to the plan.
Man so foolishly puts forth his little skill and little wisdom, living for his own glory and rejecting God's holy plan - but even for such foolish mankind, God does not forget his grace.
God's love does not change, and God's plan does not change.
It is not a curse to man that the foolish plans of foolish people fail.
It is also just the process of trying to give the blessings that God has prepared.
There was a confusion of languages, and as a result construction work was stopped, and people's will ceased.
What was the result?
They couldn't live together because they didn't speak the language, so they split up. As a result, they conquered larger lands.
I have conquered the whole world. The whole earth was filled with it.
Dear saints, God wants His children to do well. You want to thrive. You want to be the best. - Do you want to receive that blessing? - As a result, the blessing is clearly given. But the process leading to the result is also important.
Disobedient to God - to taste failure and gain shameful glory at the end of bitter experiences.
Those who obey God - In joy without failure, they glorify God and receive infinite blessings.
I bless you in the name of Jesus that you always think of God's will first and obey it and receive great blessings.