Title: The Lord of the Church of Philadelphia
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Lord of Philadelphia Church
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Bible Text: Revelation 3:7-13
In the heart of everyone living in this world today, instinctively
If there is one biggest emotion that cannot be erased by this, it is the feeling of anxiety and fear.
This is Jung. Most of the people in this world are always heartbroken with anxiety and fear.
Living in a comfortable state, I classify those types of people into five categories
You can.
First, they are people who fear God and feel spiritual instability.
Adam and Eve were among those who were religiously insecure because they feared God.
Yes. God asks, "Adam, where are you?"
Adam said, "After I ate of the forbidden fruit and sinned, I
When he found out he was naked, he was afraid and hid it.” Today, with Adam and
In the same way, they hid their true form from God and only had a formal prayer conversation.
to share, offer only formal hymns to the Lord, and formally
There are people hiding in the den.
Second, people are afraid of people. When we broke up twenty years ago
In front of the desperate situation that Xu Ji comes to kill him after passing four hundred soldiers.
Jacob was the type of person who was afraid of people. he speaks well
Sending lots of gifts with people who love to somehow loosen Esau's heart
He lived a servile life, regardless of means and methods to see. many today
People are willing to do anything to help those they fear
We live in a world of humiliation and cowardice.
Third, there are people who feel anxious in the face of tribulation. like Peter
person. Peter followed Jesus from a distance, and in the courtyard of Caiaphas the high priest
went to Even if there is a sense of distance in faith, it is impossible to leave Jesus.
I am still following the Lord. He and the soldiers are lighting the fire.
went into the court of Caiaphas, and without hesitation, was one of them, mixed with fire.
was pecking.
Even today, we are there in the face of the tribulation and difficult problems that are in front of us.
Like Peter, who was caught among his subordinates for fear of being defeated or falling in adversity.
I try to live the world without hesitation in the seat of injustice and compromise.
is.
Fourth, people are anxious because they do not know how to overcome adversity.
In 2 Kings 6, Gehazi cried out to Elisha in his early pain.
"Hey, man of God! What shall we do? The Arameans are in the city of Dothan.
They surround us and try to catch us. How are you going to fix it?"
In our human world, just like the Aramaic army surrounding Dodanseong,
There are so many obstacles in life that cannot be solved with
I am trembling with anxiety, nervousness, and fear because I do not know how to deal with it.
There are many believers.
Fifth, feeling the change of the current of the times and the ideology of current trends and feeling anxious
People. The winds of the world that are difficult to fathom, the dominance of political forces, the current
Do you know which line to follow, whom to rely on, and what kind of situation to take?
What to do is that it is unsettling.
Keir Kegaard, the head of existentialist philosophy, is in the midst of human anxiety and fear.
If you live, you may sin and fall into sin because of it, but on the contrary, it
The starting point of his existential philosophy was called anxiety in two letters.
placed in Certainly this world is unstable even from a philosophical point of view.
There is nothing wrong with that.
Psalm 42 says, “Why are you discouraged, O thy soul, and why do you
I'm anxious." It is written three times. This is the human spirit.
Human nature by revealing the inner anxiety and fear
It is an effort to peel off the skin of
Why are you anxious? The Bible Brings Us Anxiety and Fear
The Lord gives several reasons.
1. Because of sin, human beings are anxious and say.
Why did Adam, who hid himself after hearing the voice of God seeking him, rejoice?
Were you in anxiety and fear in Eden, the Garden of Umm? by sinning
Because they have lost the image of God. Cain killed his brother Abed
After he was sentenced to be punished, he confessed to God, "My punishment is too much.
I can't stand it because it's so heavy," he said, worried that people would kill him.
it is to be done. If you commit a big sin, great anxiety follows, and if you commit a small sin,
If you don't, a little bit of anxiety is bound to follow. everyone is a sinner
is. The anxiety that arises after sinning is no different. just hell
It is the anxiety that arises from going to Sin gives us a fear of hell
and fear of God's wrath, so bring anxiety and fear
give it all
2. People become anxious when their current life is on the path of decline.
If you look at Psalm 42:4-5, it says: "Before I was holy
accompany the crowd that guards them, and sings of joy and praise, uniting them as one
I led you to your house, and now I remember this and even if my heart is broken
All my soul, why are you discouraged, and why are you anxious within me?
do."
In the past, I had a good Sunday holy day and was full of joy and helped many people.
led me to my church. I was good at giving and praising with zeal.
I tried to live according to God's will. But now the past
Thinking about my life of faith, because my faith has fallen so badly
My heart aches. Anxiety as there is a wound of faith in one's own heart
do it But, dear saints, God will keep you on your knees for 3-4 hours.
Prayer is not the only thing that pleases us. When it hurts, as it hurts, lie down
He is glad to be faithfully praying in the present situation even when lying down.
It will be. See that the life of prayer is dry and the life of reading the Word is dry.
It is frustrating at first, but later it becomes difficult to open the Bible. Prayer
When I sit down to do it, the prayer doesn't come and my legs hurt.
this disappears. The life of faith or the life of the world becomes weaker and weaker,
If you do, you will inevitably become anxious and afraid.
3. People become anxious when their desires are not met.
According to 1 Kings 21:4, King Ahab was his king even though he had so much wealth.
He demanded to own Naboth's vineyard attached to the wall of the palace.
When he couldn't do it, he said, "I was worried and frustrated, so I returned to the palace and lay down
He turned his face and stopped eating."
Today, many believers who claim to believe in God have their vain desires.
Do you see too many instances of anxiety because they do not meet
All. Fear of losing it to others, fear of passing the opportunity to others,
It's because I'm afraid I'm not as good as other people, because I'm afraid I'm not better than others
4. People become anxious and impatient when there is no clue to solving a problem
loses.
When Jacob heard that his brother Esau was coming to him with four hundred
And the prayer of Genesis 32 to God 'very afraid and frustrated' was terrifying and terrifying.
It is a prayer full of fear. Today, the saints in the morning prayer and all-night prayer
Tears flow when I hear the cry of prayer. how fearful
I don't know if they are prayers.
There are also phenomena that occur in the heart amid the conflict between faith and reality.
"Sell all that you have and give to the poor and come and follow me
The rich young man, who heard the Lord's command,
I did. To believe is to believe, but it does not solve what needs to be solved.
I have to go to heaven, but I can't stop enjoying the world. 'I'm in heaven
I always worship with a heavy heart because of the anxiety that I won't be able to go to
I write.
If you go back to worship, your heart will be filled with joy, emotion, and remorse.
Dogs and tears, grace and blessings, they do not have a light heart and have a lot of worldly wealth
So, like the rich young man who returned with worries,
If you lose and go back, you are very wrongly believing in Jesus. Solve to solve
and come to the place of faith.
5. People become anxious when they are in trouble.
Verse 10 says, “Because you have kept the word of patience with me, I will also
to keep from the hour of temptation, which is to come upon all the world, and to dwell on the earth.
It is a time to test those who do.”
In these words, 'I' is Jesus and 'you' are the members of the Philadelphia Church.
It means. The Philadelphia Church in the midst of tribulation, suffering, refinement, and temptation
To the saints, Jesus promises to protect them.
Even among us today, like the Philadelphia saints, we are receiving trials and refinements.
Are there any saints? What trials, what trials, what pains
are you? Jesus, who is God, protects us from these adversities and trials.
It is what you promised to give.
From 'I will help and protect you', the word 'tereo' means to protect.
is truly impressive. I'll lose you, I'll hold you tight
Meaning. In the book of Negel, do not take your eyes off of it for a moment, and live every move.
Stretch out, hold on to you, and do not let go of you, the word of the Lord.
will be
The Lord finds us as human beings on this earth in which we suffer the pain of death.
Oh, you're here. Freed us from the seat of sin and death, from the slavery of the devil
to protect us until the day we go to heaven as your people
Jesus has come.
So, which saints are you protecting? “You can speak my words with little power.
I have kept the word of patience and perseverance.”
I have no wealth, no honor, no power, no background, but I still live by faith
The Lord will hold fast the person of faith who thinks to follow
it will be true
And how do you keep it? In 1 John 5:18 we read, “To God
The one who was born protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.”
You did. Jesus will protect us and take us to the eternal kingdom of heaven
He came to the place of our suffering and trials for the sake of that suffering.
To fight, to endure the tribulation, to overcome the trials,
Our protector, our bodyguard.
In death, our Jesus, the refinement that we can only think of as impossible
In the midst of trials and tribulations, I hold you tight, protect you, save you, and make you rise.
You are the Savior who came to do this. Many people who depend on the Lord
I bless you in the name of the Lord.