Title: The Saints Building the Right Faith
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Title: Saints who build up the right faith
Bible: Micah 3:9-12
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Today, during this time, we share the sermon with the title of “Saints who build up the right faith.
So, I know very well what kind of process a building is built according to when building.
When building a building, the first thing you must do is design it.
Without proper design, it is difficult to expect good and safe buildings.
Another important thing is to build a building as designed when building it, and only with the right materials can you build a good and beautiful building.
However, you cannot build a beautiful building if you don't build it as designed or use the right materials.
Therefore, in order to build a strong, safe and beautiful building, if you design it well and build it according to the design, you can build a strong and beautiful building.
In Korea too, the Sampoong Department Store collapsed due to improper use of materials as designed, and the Seongsu Bridge collapsed.
In addition, in order to preserve a beautiful and clean building for a long time, it is necessary to take good care of it. If it is not well maintained, the building will not last long, no matter how strong and well built.
Today we want to test our faith by comparing our faith to this building.
Buildings of faith have the same flow as building buildings.
When God created man, he designed and made a really good and beautiful design.
This fact can be confirmed by looking at Genesis, and in Genesis 1:27-28, when God created man,
“We made man in our image, in our likeness, and God created him in his own image, in the image of God he created him: male and female he created them; and God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply Fill it and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
In this way, God created man and made him a being to take care of and rule over everything on this earth.
Also, after creating man in this way, He rejoiced more than anything else created.
God wants us to discover God's will and manage our lives according to God's will.
These words mean that God made a good foundation for the building of our faith and wanted to build a beautiful building of faith on it.
However, people do not understand the will of God, and instead of building the building of faith, they are destroying it.
If we look at the words of verse 9,
“Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, you haters of justice and perverts of what is right.”
Through these words, God judges Israel as those who hate justice and pervert the honesty.
At that time, the wicked leaders unjustly extorted the people's property because they could not satisfy their greed if they lived honestly and did justice, and they also took bribes to trial.
That is why they shun justice.
They also gave up their honesty because they were so focused on their own interests.
We can see them in our faces today.
It is as if we are living righteously, and we see cases where we cannot do righteousness because we have to lose.
Also, if you live honestly, you may be dishonest for fear that you will be treated like a fool.
But our God is telling us that if we are to be saints, we must be just and honest.
If we become saints of faith, we must manage our faith well in order to build a beautiful building of faith.
In order to do that, we have to throw away the parts that God does not design without adding or subtracting.
Falsehood is something God does not want from the people of faith.
Even though Micah claims to be God's people, he is shouting these words to the people who reject God's Word and do not live according to God's Word.
Verse 10 of the text,
“They build up Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity.”
This is because the leaders of Israel now robbed the people of their wealth and took bribes under the pretext of building the temple in Jerusalem, the house of God. It can only be seen as a temple.
That is why God says he will devastate and destroy the temple in Jerusalem, which was built by unrighteousness.
Jeremiah 22:13 says,
“Woe to him who builds his house in iniquity, who builds his loft in injustice, who hires his neighbor and does not give him a price.”
No matter how beautiful a building is, it is meaningless if it is not built in a normal way.
No matter how much a temple is built for God, if it is built in an unrighteous way, God will destroy it.
In other words, worshiping God must be done in the way God wants and according to God's will.
No matter how beautiful and wonderful worship is in a beautiful and wonderful place, God does not accept it unless it is worshiped according to God's method.
In today's Word, it is said that He will destroy it rather.
In John 4, the Samaritan woman answered the question of where and how to offer worship to Jesus, saying that it must be offered “in spirit and in truth.”
In other words, God is not pleased if we do not give according to God's word and according to God's way.
It is very important that we work hard in our faith life.
But more importantly, we can bear fruit when we live a life of faith according to the teachings of the Word.
When we live by observing the words of the Bible, we can build buildings of faith well.
In 2 Timothy 3:16-17 Paul said,
“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfected for every good work.”
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The reason He gave us the Word means that we must build the building of faith according to the blueprint of the Word.
If we say we have faith and throw away the Word, our faith is in vain.
If we say that we abandon the Word and build a building of faith, we are building a house on sand.
However, if we build our faith based on the Word, we will become saints who build houses on the rock.
In this way, in order to build up the right faith, we must lead a life of faith based on the Word.
If we are to be in the Word in order to have the right faith, we must stand in the Word even if the situation is contrary to that of the world.
You must never become a fool who forsakes the Word.
Giving up the Word may bring you benefits right now, but you must realize that it will ruin you in the end.
Conversely, if you choose the Word, you may face difficulties right now, but you must realize that you will receive glory later.
It is very difficult to say that you build according to the blueprint when building, but if you build according to the blueprint, there will be no defects later.
However, if you ignore the blueprint and build it, the building may not be a problem right now, but it will soon become a problem.
That is why, as saints, safety is guaranteed when we live according to the Word of God that God has designed for our lives.
If you give up right now because it is difficult, you will not get good fruits.
It is difficult for believers who have faith to live according to the Word of God, but it is necessary to make efforts to live according to the Word of God.
When we keep our faith according to the blueprint of God's Word, works will happen in it.
There are many temptations around us when we try to keep the Word.
We must become saints who discover God's wonderful grace for us in it, not as we fall and fall in the face of such temptations.
Don't be a fool to give up things forever for a little bit of good now. You need to know that you can lose something bigger by trying to grab what's right in front of you.
Organize your words.
When you ask young children to draw a house in art class, most of them see that they paint the roof first, then the walls, and then the floor.
The results of this house are well known to you.
It is a building that has no choice but to collapse.
Now we too are building a house of faith.
If we build a house of faith according to the blueprint made according to God's word and with the materials prepared by faith, it will be built like a strong house built on a rock, but if we build a house of faith with wrong habits of life like the pictures of children, We will soon fall.
Today, at this time, I hope that we will build a house of faith toward God together, me and all of our saints, who build a house of right faith. I pray in the name of the Lord that you will be filled with precious grace to be praised by God through that wonderful house of faith. do.