Title: The Reason for Salvation
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Bible: 1 Peter 2:5-9
Title: The Reason for Salvation
Our church is currently in the 4th week of Happy Day. All churches are focusing their attention and energy on Happy Day. Don't go overboard thinking that I'm the only one.
You must come in with the mind that you are one.
In 1776, a vote made Americans use English as their national language instead of German.
In 1845, a vote recognized Texas as a state in the United States.
In 1868, one vote saved President Andrew Johnson from impeachment.
In 1876, a vote gave Rutherford B. Hayes the seat of President of the United States.
In 1923, one vote gave Adolf Hitler the power of the Nazi Party.
These words make you realize how important a person is. As we live in the world today, it is of utmost importance to recognize that each one of us is very important.
Concentration has amazing, unimaginable abilities. I believe that if all of our members focus on Happy Day together as one, there will be amazing grace beyond our expectations.
As the Happy Day continues, there are times when I wonder if this is something that I can do by shouting out slogans like this in my heart. I don't have grace in me and I don't have the will to do it, so I'm screaming and shouting and forcing myself to turn it off.
Motivation is the most important thing when doing something.
I went to church diligently when I was in elementary school and middle school. However, he did not meet Jesus personally. Does your mother tell you to go to church? It was inevitably going to be religious. There was no love for God. There was no joy of faith. It was just one religion. But I met God at the age of 23. It is a personal encounter with God in the heart. It's not that I met the Lord. The Lord has come to me. And I realized that he loved me. His voice saying that he loves me reached my soul. I began to be moved by his love. The moment His love was believed in my heart, a wonderful peace came to my soul.
And I confessed that I loved the Lord. Just as he loved me and gave his life for me, I also vowed to give my life for God. And I realized the importance of the gospel. A new beginning in my faith is meeting Jesus. After meeting Jesus, I decided to give my youth and life for the Lord.
If someone had just asked for my life unconditionally, I would have fought for my life. If I had asked for the devotion of faith without meeting the Lord, perhaps I would have left the church.
But the moment I met the Lord and realized why God loves me, a new faith began.
Motivation is important. Why should we preach the gospel? Why should I evangelize?
God loves us. This is because the gospel of God is the only hope and only the gospel of God can save us.
There is a reason God saved us.
First: As a royal priest...
Verses 5, 9
It says that God has called us to be holy priests.
A person's identity is important.
It is important for the saints to know who they are before God. When we know who we are before God, we can live confidently as Christians. Their actions, words, and attitudes depend on their identity. What kind of existence are you in the presence of God?
A saved saint is a royal priesthood.
The first human, Adam, was ordained a priest. A priest is a person who meets God and serves God. Humans were ordained as priests to serve God. He became a priest who served God on behalf of all things and went to God and glorified Him. He was ordained as a king over all things and a priest to God. This was the nature of man.
However, because of human sin, the priesthood was lost. Human beings who have sinned could no longer come to God. The priest has lost his glory.
So God needed a new priest.
God established the nation of Israel and specially appointed the descendants of Aaron as priests and gave them the privilege of serving God and approaching God.
However, the Israelites were able to approach God because only the priests were separated. In the place of worship, worship was held through a separate priest.
However, the saints who have been saved through the death of Jesus on the cross are now priests of God. They have become priests who can worship God and approach God freely.
The privilege of a priest is the right to worship God freely. Now we have become a royal priesthood who can worship God to our heart's content. This is the privilege of Christians.
Become a priest at home
May is Family Month.
The national church will preach about the family
First, in order for the family to be established as a biblical family, the spiritual authority of the fathers must be established. Husbands should be royal priests in their homes. The father's authority must be accompanied by the spiritual realm. When there is authority established by God in prayer and the Word, the family becomes a healthy and happy family.
It is also important to educate children and be filial to their parents during Family Month. But most importantly, husbands and fathers have a biblical fatherhood. When you take care of your family with authority as a spiritual priest, your family becomes a little heaven.
It is a father's duty to pass on to his children a legacy of right faith.
In the Old Testament times, there is a ceremony performed when Aaron died and his son Eleazar was commissioned as a high priest.
Exodus 29:29
Aaron's holiness shall be given to the sons of Aaron afterward, who will wear them and be commissioned by the anointing...
Why are you putting on your father's clothes on Aaron's son? Is it because the priest's clothes have jewels on them? Perhaps the king's clothes were more splendid.
You must have remembered your life while wearing your father's clothes. A father is to leave a holy suit of life for his son.
Another reason to be a holy priest is to preach our gospel. Now, in order to preach the gospel, the era of verbal preaching is over. During Happy Day, we can truly feel that our lives are impossible without support.
Now the way we continue to show them a Christian life and to influence them is for our lives to be holy priestly lives.
Romans 12:1 Offer it as a holy and living sacrifice
A holy life must be supported.
With the suffering of the people...
Priests are those who carry the pain of the people and go to God and tell them. People come to the priests when they sin or when they have pain or problems in their lives. And he tells the priest his condition and circumstances. Then the priests are the ones who go to God instead and cry out in tears. Prophets were those who heard the word of God and delivered it to the people, whereas priests are now those who report the people's problems to God.
On this Happy Day, we as priests embrace prospective believers and go to God and tell them. Fasting one meal at a time, God, receive their souls, give them grace, God, remember their condition.
Why do you fast? You have to make sure you don't get bored. Giving up grain and praying while fasting is a life-threatening prayer. It is an earnest prayer to take responsibility for their souls.
Second: Called to be an evangelist
verse 9
He has called us to promote the beautiful virtues of God.
This is the second reason and purpose that God saved us. He called us as evangelists to proclaim the virtue of his salvation. God has led us from darkness into light. He has called us to be propaganda agents of the kingdom of God who propagate the beautiful virtue of salvation.
We have what we need to promote the beauty of God. We must first possess the beauty of God. We must first retain the beauty of God. May we have God's grace in our hearts this Happy Day. Please recover.
Verses 5 and 9 speak of our identity.
And the next verse speaks of the duties, missions, and responsibilities that come with status.
All those who met Jesus will live a life of preaching Him.
It is not forced, but voluntarily.
You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be witnesses in Jerusalem and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.
The twelve disciples of Jesus, including Zacchaeus Paul and the apostles, will go out as soon as they meet Jesus and preach the Jesus they met.
If your identity changes, your life will change according to your identity.
The student who is studying has now passed the bar exam.
A medical student became a doctor. Life is changing. We Christians need to change our lives now. Preaching the gospel should be our life, purpose, and joy. ]
Listen to Paul's Confession
Philippians 1:20-21
As Paul thought, I want to leave this world right now and go to the Lord's kingdom, but the reason I live with all of you is that I am living so that the gospel of Christ can be preached abundantly through me.
?쏷his is so that you may proclaim the goodness of him who called you out of darkness into me into his marvelous light??(1 Peter 2:9).
Peter explains why he made us priests:
What was our life like before we were saved through Christ? It was a dark life. A life without Christ is a spiritually dark life. Life without Christ is spiritually dead. But through Christ the Light, we have now begun a new life of light.
A king of a certain country was so happy that he won the war, so he gathered all the soldiers and held a feast. After eating and drinking for a while, the wind suddenly blew and the fire went out. It has gone dark. At that time, a subordinate general's playfulness was activated and he touched the woman who was the king's concubine. The woman was startled to learn that someone other than the king had touched her, so she pulled the string attached to the general's hat, cut it, and took it. And then I screamed. "I don't know who touched me now, but I have the hat cut off to catch him," the king said. "Let's all untie our hats just as someone's string is broken now." So they all cut the hats. The king ordered the fire to be turned on. The king had forgiven him. Although he was guilty, he was forgiven even though he deserved death by law because everyone in this place fought for him.
Another war broke out in that country. The king was in a situation where he had no choice but to die, and a subordinate ran and died instead. The king was so grateful and said to him. "How could you have thought of giving up your life to save me?" Then this servant said to the king. "My lord, I have done such things in the past. You could have killed me back then, but it is an honor for me to die for you because I thank you for believing in me and forgiving me. The purpose of my life was to die for you. To die for that purpose, I am rather grateful and happy.??We have many faults like this general. Nevertheless, God is calling us to be priests. To say that we are priests means that God believes in us to the end and that we have expectations. I believe that God's grace is in this priesthood. I hope that all of you who are grateful for the fact that you became a priest, just this fact that you were called a priest, will have grace.