Title: The Risen Lord/John 11:25-26
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Bible: John 11:25-26
Subject: The Risen Lord
Bottom line: Following the risen Lord is a life of giving my little things to God.
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1. To change into a new form.
In this world we live in, there are things that change into a completely new form that is completely different from the first appearance.
First, rotten gold and silver jewels along with all the dregs enter the furnace and change into a completely new shape. Second, a humble seed in the ground suddenly turns into a tree. Third, an egg-like thing in the mother's bosom. It can be said that it turns into a chick.
However, you can see that most people are resignedly living with the idea of what's going to happen. However, we can see that Jesus came to this world early and taught how to overcome such porridge. In other words, they had to be born again. It had to be reborn. Then a man named Nicodemus came to Jesus and asked him how he could be born again, and if he had to go back into his mother's womb.
2. Jesus transformed into a new form
In the Word of God today, after raising Lazarus from the dead, Jesus refers to Himself and says that I am the one who raises them up again and the life that brings them back to life. That is why he says that he who believes in me will live even if he dies, and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. This means that the jewels that have been put into the furnace are like dregs and they all seem to disappear when they are heated, but when you believe and enter into them, they come out in a brand new pure form. Just as we go in and change into a big tree, when we enter Jesus, we are transformed into a shape we never expected. And if you believe that an egg is in its mother's nest, it's the same as turning into a chick.
3. We, the seeds of love
Today is Easter, when our Jesus rose from the dead three days after he died on the cross. We find that sometimes it is easy to doubt whether the Lord's Resurrection is real, and there are many times when we do not believe how the dead can be brought back to life.
So is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in perishables, but incorruptibles come to life. It is sown with little things to throw away, but it comes to life with great things. What is weak is planted, and what is strong is revived. It is a body of nature, but it is revived as a body in the kingdom of heaven. At that time, when a perishable body puts on incorruption and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the words of the Bible that are written will be fulfilled. Swallowed death and gained victory. Where is your victory, O death? Where is your sting, O death? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But we thank God for giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm, do not waver, and do more of the Lord's work, as you know, your labor is not in vain in the Lord."
To sum up these words, as gold is taken out of a furnace, like wood from the ground, and chicks from the bosom of a mother chicken, we also go into a furnace in the arms of the Lord and into a place like the ground. If we just enter, our Lord is saying that He will resurrect us in a new form.
Do you believe that your body is really resurrected like Jesus?
Today, the Apostle Paul said, “Those who believe in the Lord who is the resurrection and the life, are like those who plant a small, decaying seed in the ground that we cannot understand, but grow into a big tree by the program in it, so our bodies are also planted in the ground of God. It is saying that we cannot know when we lose, but we change into a body that never dies according to God's program. However, if there is one condition, just as a seed grows into a new tree when it completely decays in the ground, and just as Jesus was resurrected when he completely forsook himself on the cross, we too must give up our all. Gary On the cross, the Lord cried out, “Father, why have you forsaken me?” In the end, we must entrust everything to the Lord, just as we entrusted everything to your will. And you will have to admit that everything comes from the Lord. What I have grown up to, what makes me so healthy, is that I have to admit that everything that I can go to school, study, and make friends comes from the Lord.
Even Edison, who is called the king of inventions, confessed, I didn't come up with so many things, it just popped into my head. As I said, God gave me such a thought for the convenience of man, God, I cannot understand that I will become a body that will live forever, but God shows me through Jesus, so I have to confess that I will believe. At that time, our God leads us to the kingdom of heaven through such a humble confession and transforms our body into an eternally unchanging body into a form we cannot comprehend.
4. We are prepared with the seeds of love
Therefore, even though our appearance of following the Lord may seem humble, we should not be humbled.
Some friends see only their shortcomings every day. I saw this story in a newspaper last time. A husband said to his wife: "I'm not going to the 20th reunion party, Mommy's store isn't going to sell out that fast," and my wife said, "Adam Newman, your problem isn't about gaining weight quickly. It's a real problem. Damn, your reunion is less than 500 days away," and the husband said, "I'm glad. I'm going to lose more hair then." However, even with such shortcomings, our Lord Himself showed us through His resurrection that when we are planted in the ground of our Lord, our insignificant appearance is transformed into a completely different and wonderful image.
Therefore, those of us who believe in and follow the resurrection of Jesus are not those who are disappointed and frustrated by the appearance of us, but those who have courage and have hope after seeing the image of the risen Lord. I thought that Jesus was abandoned and said, ‘Father, why are you forsaking me? Because of this, our Lord was able to go down such a cursed path.
Even in our appearance, we have no choice but to say, “Why does God hate only me? is. Weakness is not a shame. Being lowly is not a shame. It doesn't matter if it looks insignificant. The question is whether to plant a small seed in the ground or whether it is thin, and whether or not to leave it to the Lord Gati, that is, whether or not to believe in the power of the Lord. And it can be said that it is a child whether I am corrupted or not.
After all, when our body becomes a small seed of love, we can see that our Lord has promised to regenerate us into a body of love. Because our Lord became the seed of perfect love, we can see that he was transformed into a body of love immediately when we entered the land of our God. will be
What kind of seed is your body? And ready to bloom in any form
do you want I don't know if it's from weed seeds or not. If we are in the form of seeds of tares, we will have to quickly change ourselves into seeds of love.