Title: The Missionary's Path
Contents
Title: The Path of the Missionary
Bible: 1 Corinthians 9:16-17
2009.11.1. day
1. What is the mission?
What is the Christian's mission?使命- This is a command that I must do. A mission is a goal that you must keep and achieve throughout your life after being born.
In that mission, there are those who have the authority to carry out the mission, there are those who have received the mission, there is the content of the mission, and there is a way to accomplish the mission.
2. Who gave you this mission?
“I have been given a mission”
Who gave me such an order? God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. That is why that mission is what we call the Great Commission. A supreme command means that it is the highest and most precious command, and has the highest priority over any other command.
Its intensity is different depending on who gave it the mission. For students, if it is a command given by a teacher, it is a very valuable command. Sometimes even gangsters work with the risk of their lives, saying that they will keep their loyalty if they are ordered by their king. If you are a Korean, it would be very important if President Lee Myung-bak, the owner of the Blue House, gave you a mission.
However, the one who has given us a mission has been given by God, the King of Kings, who is more noble than any other command in this world.
3. You must know what the mission is.
It is “to preach the gospel”. This was also true of Jesus. He said that I have come to evangelize. Evangelism was the purpose and mission of Jesus' incarnation.
What was it for Peter? It was his mission to be a fisher of men. That's right. This too was preaching the gospel.
Then, the mission of all of us who believe in Jesus is to preach the gospel. Evangelism is our mission.
4. How should we fulfill our mission?
1) with pleasure
Those who carry out their mission always do it with pleasure. What's the reason? Because we fulfill that mission, it is because of the glory that comes next. Newlyweds are very happy to have children. And for 10 months, I served as the ship's boss. I find it very enjoyable. Some women deliberately stick their belly forward. He informs many people that he is pregnant. Even if you have severe morning sickness, you can tolerate it. And when you give birth, you experience the pain of tearing your stomach, but you brave it well. Why? Because the joy of having a child is greater.
We too must fulfill the mission of preaching the gospel with joy. Embracing the new born child means we have to endure the pain of childbirth, expecting the joy of seeing that person be born as a child of God.
2) Things to do
“Even if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast about because it is something I must do.”
5. What will happen if we do not fulfill that mission?
“Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel.”
However, there is one thing we must remember. It is the fact that if the mission is not accomplished, we will not escape anger. If the missionary cannot fulfill his mission, it is not only himself. Organization is sometimes a matter of national luck of the country.
During Elisha's time, the Syrian army besieged and attacked the city of Samaria. As days passed, a great famine engulfed the parents and devoured their children. At that time there were four lepers outside the city of Samaria. Even if he went into the castle, he died, and even if he sat there, he had no choice but to starve to death. He was the enemy, but he decided to go to the camp of the Arameans. When I went there, it was piled up like a mountain of gold, silver, treasure, and seafood. They ate and hid. After a while, I woke up and remembered that my people were dying in the castle. So they said: (2 Kings 7:9) "The lepers said to their friends, "We must not do this. Today is a day of good news, and we are silent. If we wait until bright morning, punishment will come upon us. Now leave the palace." Let's go and tell him."
mission
I will follow the path that the Lord has gone alone.
I also go by the way all water and blood was shed.
I'm okay with rough mountains. Even at the end of the sea, I'm fine
Please leave me for those who are dying.
Father please send me I will run.
I will not spare my life. let me go,
Even if the world hates me, I will love you.
The cross that saved the world, follow me too.
You loved me even to the point of giving up your life.
Take me, little one, I love you
The Soviet Bolshevik Revolution in October 1917 was a success. At that time, the Greek Orthodox Church was the state religion in Tsarist Russia. How did such a country become a communist country? Why is the Greek Orthodox Church? This was because he only existed in the aristocratic society of Russia and did not preach the gospel to the workers he employed.
As a result, a revolutionary genius named Lenin appeared and went to the workers and peasants and blown the wind of revolution into them, and as a result, the Greek Orthodox Church in Russia collapsed. And communism was easy.
If we do not preach the gospel in this way, we, as believers, will become more angry.
The same is true in this day and age. We, who received the Gospel first, were commissioned by the Lord to preach the Gospel. If we do not preach this Gospel, the waves of the world will occupy people's hearts and minds, and Christianity will gradually erode and religion of idols will prevail.
Jig is showing many signs of that.
Do you know how the 2008 statistics came out? Christian decline. Thousand and increased Buddhism is increasing, Islam is increasing.
Where is the revival of the church? When the saved saints fill this temple, the church is revived. However, if there are no new believers and evangelism is cut off, the church will soon have a serious problem that will have to close its doors. And our souls will be taken by Satan as his stronghold and lead into all kinds of sins. And we will drift away from the kingdom of God.
If you don't preach the gospel, it's a disaster for me. This doesn't mean that God is angry with me, but that we get angry on our own.
Dear saints,
Therefore, we must risk our lives to preach the gospel of this life. Let's convey it with hot passion. Let's tell what God gives us strength. Don't be lazy and work diligently.
What are my goals for Thanksgiving? Minimum of 5 people. Let's evangelize 5 people. So, I pray that you will enjoy the joy of harvesting to your heart's content, just as a farmer embraces a bunch of harvested rice and puts a smile on his face.