Title: The House of the Lord
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home of the Lord
Text: Joshua 24:14-18
“The Lord is the master of our home, an invisible guest when we dine and an invisible listener when we talk. I read it in a scroll of a family.
There are families who live with Jesus. There are also families who live with the Buddha. On the other hand, there are families who live with General Cheonha and General Underground. There is a family that lives with Miryeok and Chilsung.
Who do you live with in your household?
In the text, the people of Israel were worshiping the god they worshiped in Egypt until they came out of Egypt and reached the welfare of Canaan under the guidance of the Lord.
Joshua was angry at this and said, "Choose whom you will serve today. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." At this time, Israel said that they would not forget the grace of God and would not forsake the Lord and stop serving the Lord.
The home is the heart of the country and the church. The family is more important than any organization or institution in this world. I have to have a business in my workplace for my family, and if my family exists because of my job and business, I will be unhappy even if I succeed. A beautiful family is an organization created by God Himself. Therefore, no family can be happy without serving God rightly, and there is no unhappy family for a family that has the Lord rightly.
"One of today's greatest misfortunes is that the family does not deeply satisfy man," said B.W Russell. The basis of human life is not the state or society, but the family. The family is the basic source of human life. Therefore, when God created man, he did not give the nation or society first, but first created Adam and Eve and gave them the minimum family. And with the intervention of the devil, this family was destroyed, and tragedy entered the whole of mankind.
Even today, if the family, which is a component of society, is healthy, society is healthy, and if the family is unstable, the society cannot find stability. C.H. Dickens said, "Love of one's country comes from loving one's family."
A man named Moor said, "Man wanders the world in search of what he wants, and when he returns home, he finds it there."
Therefore, no matter who you are, true happiness, peace, and complete rest can only be found in the family where the Lord is present. A family that is unhappy with the Lord is a family that has received the Lord wrong.
So, how do you get it right?
(1) It is a family that keeps the commandments God has given (Joshua 1:6-9)
When Joshua kept the commandments that the Lord had given him in any crisis without turning left or right, the blessing came that he would become smooth and prosperous.
① You must serve the Lord and keep building the altar.
The patriarchs of faith did not forget to first build an altar to God wherever they went. When Noah came out of the ark and built an altar first, Abraham built an altar to the LORD at Shechem, built an altar to the LORD at Bethel, built an altar to the LORD at Hebron, and built an altar to the LORD at Mount Moriah. After prospering, a great test came when I went down to Egypt and forgot to build an altar. It is an absolute sin for a believer not to attend worship.
When your family goes through trials and difficulties come, when the stars rise, you must know that problems arose from the altar. Please repent and think about whether there are any problems with the Grand Worship Altar, Night Altar, Dawn Altar, Class Meeting, and Home Altar.
② We must keep the commandments to give to God.
God still tells us to give, and He gives as much as we give.
If you give your body, it will give you health (Romans 12:1).
Give your heart and give me peace (John 14:27)
If you give, you will fill it with abundance (Mal 3:10).
When you pray, He answers (Matthew 21:22)
He gives us joy when we sing praises (Hebrews 13:15).
Give us time and we will give you eternal life (Exodus 20:8).
If you give your life, He will give you the crown of life.
As Napoleon said, "What we French need most is more Christian homes." A family that knows how to keep things and knows how to give things is a family that has the Lord rightly.
③ It is a family that keeps the commandment that God says not to do.
Fearing that his children would do what Jehovah forbids, Job built a special altar for them.
Of the ten commandments, there is only one commandment to do and nine commandments not to do it.
However, rather than passive members who do not, we can say that the members of the church who actively keep the new commandments and do great things for God are in a family where the Lord is rightly served.
④ It is a family that continues to read the Bible, pray, and love the church in a family where the Lord is right there.
Each family member reads the Bible, holds family worship, and each member serves and dedicates himself to the church. The church is the body of the Lord, we are his members, and Christ is the head of the church. Our Lord will be the master of my home.
(2) A family that has the Lord rightly is a family that keeps relationships and order.
Karl Wald also sees the family from the point of view of 'relationship' and says, "Two different men and women become married and become parents, and a new child is born between them, thus forming a unique relationship between parent and child, which is It is said to have a (連帶的) nature, and this relationship is the second realm of human life.”
① Therefore, the marital relationship should be good.
"Your wife in the inner chamber of your house shall be like a fruitful vine, and your children around your table like young olive trees. So blessed will be those who fear the Lord" (Psalm 128:3).
“Adam said, ‘This is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh’” (Genesis 2:23). (Genesis 2:25), they had the best relationship that completely overcame the feeling of alienation between husband and wife. It was because their relationship with God was right. A family with such a marital relationship is necessarily a blessed family. However, if the relationship between husband and wife becomes estranged and conflict arises, “The woman whom God gave to be with me, she gave me that tree, and I ate it” (Genesis 3:12). You can't say that.
There is only one God who can unite human beings into one. Also, there must be a proper hierarchical order between husband and wife.
When Peter told a wife to obey her husband, "Sarah called Abraham lord and obeyed" (1 Peter 3:6). And Paul said, "The head of a woman is a man" (1 Corinthians 11:3).
A man named James A. Pike said, "Look at a home where a woman rules and a husband is nothing. There is no order, no satisfaction, only dissatisfaction and disorder."
A woman went to Carlyle, a famous writer with great aspirations, and said, "Sir, I have a big will to contribute to this society. What should I do first?" Carlyle closed her eyes and thought for a while. What's in your sewing bowl?" It was so unexpected that he advised the woman, who was embarrassed by the question, to go home first, clean up her sewing bowls, and think again.
Our couples often fall into these contradictions. Our job is not to be on high in the first place. Our work is in our closest homes and in our churches.
If you neglect your family and succeed or make a lot of money, it will never be the object of respect, and you will be unhappy with it. If you neglect your children's support, do not obey your husband, go out to society, do good activities, and do good church service, others will laugh at you. A family where the Lord is served is an orderly family.
② The relationship between parents and children should be good.
Deuteronomy 5:16 says, "Honor your father and mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you."
D.L. Moody said, "Even if I lose the respect of everyone in the world, I am not unhappy. But if I lose respect from my children, I will be unhappy." It speaks to the right relationship between parents and children.
“Father, live and do all the work you need to serve. / After the end of the day, I will be grieving.
There was a girl named Je-Young in China. When her father, Sun-Duge, fell ill and died, she decided that she had to die in her father's stead and save her father.
Je-yeong appealed to the king, "The dead cannot live," and "The wounded cannot heal." made a request The king thought, "This is a filial piety. Heaven knows about a filial daughter, so how can you kill the father of a girl whom Heaven knows?" and let him go as a special envoy.
King Sukjong the Great, wearing plain clothes, came back from taking care of the people, and saw the young people singing, the middle ones dancing, and the old people crying in the hut. In other words, the daughter-in-law cuts her hair on her mother's birthday and sells it to make her happy. The son sings and the daughter-in-law dances with a towel, and the mother is crying with emotion.
The king, who met the filial piety, was so moved that he bought him ten pounds of meat and an island of rice, and asked him to come to see the past three months later. '喪家僧舞老人歎' means young