Title: The Power of Resurrection and Restoration
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The power of resurrection and restoration (Revelation 21:1-8) 2006.04.16.
There were no Christians before the resurrection of Jesus.
The thrilling Easter morning of 2006 that reminds us of the resurrection of Jesus! The dark veil of death has been lifted, and a glorious and thrilling new morning of life has come. I pray that the grace of resurrection life will always be filled with you who come to the temple of the Lord to worship, your family, and all your business.
There is a famous saying by Ben Buren. "There were no Christians before the resurrection of Jesus." That's right. You can become a person of faith only if you have that faith in the resurrected Jesus. You can trust yourself, you can trust others, you can trust the world, you can trust God, and you will believe in the kingdom of God. Only those who have such faith will know the way of life.
The Bible tells us that there are two resurrections. One is the resurrection of life and the other is the resurrection of death. The resurrection we believe in and hope for is the resurrection of life and the resurrection to a new heaven and a new earth. There are two very important concepts in the resurrection of life: restoration and revival. In the resurrection of life, there is the power of restoration. Everything is restored through the resurrection. The restorative powers contained in the resurrection include:
recovery to life
Resurrection is God's power to restore all death to life. Our Lord broke the authority of death and rose again. The Lord has come into our midst, who has resurrected us who are weeping and weeping while holding on to lifeless things and stroking them. Look to the risen Lord, come closer to meet the Lord, touch and feel His life, restore the relationship of life with Him, and have joy and hope, so that your faith and life will be restored.
restoration to beauty
According to today's text, the new heavens and new earth that God prepared for us were as beautiful as the bride adorned for the groom. All the cleanliness and beauty lost through sin will be restored through the resurrection. The whole world will be clean and beautiful. But more importantly, it is not that the world will become beautiful, but that people will become beautiful. Doing your best in every moment is what becomes your past, present, and future. I hope that it blooms like a flower every moment and that your soul is clear. If the moment does not rust, the entire life will not rust.
There are times when people are hated and there are times when they look ugly. There are not many people who live ugly. And it's like that, no matter who you are. However, on the Day of Resurrection, all faces, lives, personalities and dispositions of those who have been saved through faith in God will be changed beautifully. We will restore the image of God that was lost through sin. Restoring this beauty is as important as restoration of life. In particular, as we experience spiritual revival through the special early morning prayer meeting for this Lent, our tired hearts, who were discouraged and depressed by the weight of the past life, are newly restored, and our prideful mind and our unpretentious images that were trapped in the old frame are changed beautifully. You don't know how grateful I am for the phenomena that go. As our spiritual energy, which has been latent, is released through the early morning prayer meeting, I hope that your faith and life will continue and the spiritual revival and vision of Yeongam Church of infinite possibilities will proceed beautifully with the risen Lord.
restoration to perfection
The world that has fallen because of sin is an imperfect world. That is why the world is always insecure, and so life in the world is always insecure and anxious. But the resurrection will restore all such human imperfections to perfection. Every imperfection will be restored to perfection. So there are no tears or mourning in that country. Because it's a perfect world. The resurrection of life contains the power of revival. Resurrection is not just a simple restoration. Restoration alone is a great grace, but resurrection contains the power of revival. Restoration and revival are the principles and principles of the original poem creation.
Everything is being restored in the Lord. Both humans and nature are being restored. Restoration is the principle and principle of creation. Revival and growth are also the principles of creation. If you are in God's principles and order, the principle is to revive and grow. Therefore, when we are resurrected, our lives will not just be restored, but will be revived and developed. The time of the resurrection will be a future we do not know, but the power of the resurrection will not appear in the distant future, but will appear from the moment we are alive.
If we believe in Jesus correctly and fully believe in Jesus, we will live on this earth with the power of resurrection. That resurrection power will be revealed in our lives in restoration and revival. All death and failure will be restored to life and success, our wickedness and ugliness will be restored to good and beauty, and all our imperfect and insecure lives will be turned into full and secure lives. And a true revival will happen in our lives. When the power of resurrection is revealed, all the broken things will be restored rightly, and all the weak and dying things will be changed into strong and vital things, and the true work of revival will appear in the concrete field of life.
The power and blessing of salvation and resurrection can only be obtained through faith. Only through the wealth of faith can we possess this resurrection power, but our problem is that this faith is not rich. Our faith is so poor and so humble at times. It is not that we do not have faith, but it is so insignificant and humble that we cannot receive the power of resurrection and live a truly poor life.
A life of remembrance of God's grace
If we compare humans to animals and classify them, we can classify them into two types: dogs and cats. Dogs are generally good at following people, but cats are not. It's because of what they remember. Dogs, even if their owner does something wrong nine times, if they do something good for them once, they will remember what they did right once. On the other hand, it is said that cats do good to people nine times, but if they do something wrong, they remember that one time and do not follow people well. In fact, cats are not very good at following people, even though they treat cats better than dogs. This distinction may not accurately refer to real dogs and cats. There are times when the words are different.
Those who remember love and those who remember hurt
But if you observe people, you can see them. There are people who are grateful even after receiving one love, and there are people who are not thankful even after receiving a lot of love. What separates a person like that? It depends on what he remembers. It's the difference between someone who remembers love and someone who remembers hurt. Most of the time, people remember hurt rather than love. Love is lost quickly, and wounds are remembered for a long time. We Christians are also beings who have received eternal love and grace, but from the point of view of a missionary, we are entrusted with grace. There are those who know grace, there are those who have received grace, and there are those who have been entrusted with grace. Those who can repay the grace they have received are those who have been entrusted with grace.
It's not that I don't believe, but I can't focus on my beliefs. Because of this, faith is not at all cool. Even if you believe in your life, you will not grow. Then wouldn't God say something like this? Don't just try hard to believe, try hard to believe right! Faith that believes rightly is faith that believes in grace. Resurrection faith is a faith that interprets everything as grace because it is the value of living again after death.
Reasons for not enjoying the blessings
The Bible is given to us by mouth! Lord! They are saying that not all of them will enter the kingdom of God. They are telling us that they are just walking in the temple courtyard. Not everyone will be saved by going to church. Church service is important, but service does not save everyone. There are many people who work hard, but have little faith in Jesus. Salvation comes only through faith. If you believe, you will definitely get it. If we gain salvation, of course in death, we will also receive the power of resurrection on this earth. All death and failure will be restored, and God's principle of revival will be revealed in all life and work.
The power of salvation and resurrection will appear in your home, in the world, in the church, and in your heart. The reason we are not enjoying the wonderful blessings even though we say we believe in Jesus is because of our lack of faith. Because we trust in you only with our mouths. Because we are only treading on the temple courts. I hope you can yearn for the riches of faith. I hope that you will be able to work hard, work hard, and pray for living and working in faith.
When the Lord died, the disciples were all scattered, but when they found out that He was resurrected, their lives turned 180 degrees. Despair turned into hope, sadness into joy, doubt into confidence, the meek into the generous, the cowards into the courageous. My thoughts have changed, my actions have changed, my values have changed, everything has changed. The fact that they live again even if they die has changed everything about them. For those who believe in the resurrection, in fact, this change happens to everyone.
Goethe said in his old age: ?쏝efore I believed the resurrection was a fact, everything I was doing was a mistake.??Only with this resurrection faith can we overcome emptiness. Only with this resurrection faith can we overcome tribulation, and only with this resurrection faith can we get rid of loneliness, death, and bad life. That is why we have the power to overcome the world, to overcome death, so that we can live truly righteously only on this hope that we will live again even if we die. The Lord rose from the dead to teach us this wonderful way.
The scariest thing in the world is death, but the scariest person in the world is one who is not afraid of death. Resurrection faith enables us to overcome death, so we are able to overcome death-like suffering and tribulation. That makes us truly strong people in this world. The benefits and blessings that faith in the resurrection give us do not stop there. Resurrection faith not only strengthens us, it also cleanses and straightens us and transforms all of us. Resurrection means life, it means victory, it means fragrance, it means joy. Those who believe in the resurrected Lord and receive Him receive new life, new power, and a fragrant life, full of joy. No one can take away this joy. By accepting this resurrection Lord, we can all recover true health, restore life, restore life, restore victory, restore fragrance, restore joy, restore gratitude, restore emotion and emotion, restore beauty, restore perfection I hope that you will be able to obtain the restoration of Ham and the restoration of spirituality.
A grain of wheat by itself has no ability to transform itself. If it is left unplanted in the ground, it will dry up and die at some point. But when it is planted in the ground, it rots in the ground, and as it is conceived as a new life, it sprouts buds, produces stems, flowers, and bears fruit. The form of the seed has disappeared, but it is not annihilated, but transformed. Resurrection is the completion of life.
Jesus died on the cross to save us. And he was resurrected. The Bible says that whoever believes in me will not perish but have eternal life. I hope you can believe this gospel. I hope that you will look forward to the eternal kingdom of God and taste and live the kingdom of God where you will die in this world. I also hope that you will enjoy the power of restoration contained in the resurrection of Jesus.