Title: The Saints You Want
Contents Hebrews 4:12-16 The saints whom the Lord wants
We live in Korea, where we can go wherever we want. You can go by boat or by plane. However, there are places where you must get permission to go. Tsinghua University. I've been to the National Assembly, but I haven't been to Tsinghua University yet. I want to go, but they only invited me. Wouldn't it be too far to go?
What is the house of God with the King of kings? can we go yes you can go Anyone have any doubts about this? Can you all go to heaven where God is?
It seems like an easy answer, but if you dig a little deeper, maybe some of you are not confident.
Therefore, there are people who live without gratitude and joy in their religious life. I just live my life as another religious person.
I am going to tell you what the Lord wants a true saint to look like. I pray that it will be a time for you to diagnose your personal faith through the Word and make a new decision.
first. Only the elect can become saints.
If you want to go to a special place, you must have an invitation. No one can get into it. The same is true of the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God where there is eternal life and there is no death, pain and sorrow is not a place everyone can go to. Only the chosen one can go. John 15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you.
It is said that God clearly chose first. This is God's unilateral choice. Occasionally, I watch a TV show with my child introducing the last remaining races.
Indigenous peoples of the jungle live naked by hunting. Watching him have to drink muddy water and eat insects because there is no water, my child said, “Dad, thank you so much for not being born there.”
I've been thinking about it too. “If I had been born there…” Children’s expressions
To be born in such a good Korean land ~ I am very grateful. This is what God made you to be born here.
Becoming the saints of God's people is also possible only by God's choice. It was just believing, coming to church, hearing the word and obeying it. People who don't believe really don't believe. They shouldn't even try to believe it.
Don't even try to believe it with knowledge. Don't even try to believe it emotionally. It could be awhile. But faith does not arise. One day it will turn around and it will go wrong.
do you believe This is God's gift by God's choice. Grace.
Do you regret sitting here? Don't you?
Sitting here is grace and thanks, isn't it? Then you are sure to be the chosen saints.
second. Only the chosen can enter the chosen place.
God has chosen His people and created a special place to invite them to. Temple. In the days of the wilderness, it existed as a tent, and during the reign of kingship, it was built very splendidly with gold and silver jewelry by David and Solomon. After that, a new place was established by the collapse. Church. He chose the church and invited the members through the church. Therefore, the church becomes the chosen place that God has prepared for the chosen people to gather and worship. Although it is a small and humble church, God has established our church to meet us.
(Next) Congratulations on being a member of the Church of the Nations chosen by God.
God blesses you through the chosen place. Jacob - Prayer at Bethel
Jacob the Fugitive - Meeting God at Bethel. Later - I ran away from my uncle Laban's house.
fugitive status. Conflict with neighboring countries.
The place where he met God by setting his will. Ascending towards God's chosen Bethel.
There, he wrestled with an angel and met God. be a blessed person.
Dear saints, the church is a chosen place. It is a place of worship and a place of blessing. Therefore, you should be able to get close to the church often. No matter how close you are, if you don't get close, your heart will inevitably go away.
There was a Sunday School student. He always liked to play in the church yard. We prayed in the church and played in the yard, but when it rained, the church yard became muddy, and eventually the inside of the church was polluted with muddy water. Adults come once a week to worship, so they just didn't take it seriously. Can I just wipe it off? However, this child who was always close to the church was different. How can I keep the church clean even when it rains?
One day my father's factory - a brick making factory / On the way home, the child laid out small bricks in the front yard of the church one by one. A brick road was laid down to the entrance, one or two sheets each day (which, of course, I got in return for helping my father). He was nicknamed. - Brick Boy
God did not forget the Brick Boy. He made him wiser and gave him great potential. This brick boy is the first Warner Maker to create a department store. Wannamaker became the richest man, paired with Rockefeller.
Dear saints, the closer I get to the church, the more grace and blessing I become. I am like Rockefeller among our members. Blessed be someone like Wannamaker. Then get closer to the church.
Third, we will be thankful for our salvation and confess it.
The door to the sanctuary is made so that anyone can easily open it. Because it is wrapped in cloth, it is easy to open even if a child opens it. With a width of 10m, even the most stout person can easily enter. Tall people can come in. Because there is no threshold to the sanctuary. A crippled person can get in without a hitch.
This is the salvation that has been given to us. Our salvation has no qualifications or standards. Our moral actions are not the result of our religious actions. Salvation is given only through faith in Jesus. It was to enter the house of God. This is my first thanks.
The second thanks is that sacrificial wealth is always ready for me. I had to die because of my sins, but Jesus died as a sacrifice for me. The writer of Hebrews confesses that he became the atoning material for eternal redemption.
Please remember that even at this time, Jesus is being offered as a sacrifice for your sins and for me. Please remember that you are still being offered as a sacrifice to pay for your sins.
Therefore, we must wash away our sins daily with the blood of Jesus. The blood of Jesus must be sprinkled on my heart. I think the blood of Jesus should be sprinkled, and the blood of Jesus should be sprinkled in my life. We have to wash it daily with the blood of Jesus.
The blood of Jesus casts out all evil powers and removes all curses. The blood of Jesus gives life to the dead.
Therefore, believers must be drenched in the blood of Jesus every day. Life must be soaked in the blood of Jesus. hands and feet. Your actions must be soaked in the blood of Jesus. Our thoughts and words must be soaked in the blood of Jesus. Why do you have to be so wet?
Because it is only through the blood of Jesus that we can come before the holy throne of God.
Praise) Through the blood, into the arms of God...
If you have any complaints, grievances, hatreds, or sinful thoughts, declare this. “I command you with the blood of Jesus to depart, you filthy and ugliness.” “With the blood of Jesus, I command you to depart, you pain.”
Fourth, we will go out with the filling of the Holy Spirit.
The grace given to the saints through the blood of the Precious Blood is the filling of the Holy Spirit. You will remember that there was a table of bread, a candlestick, and an altar of incense in the sanctuary. The spiritual meaning of this is that the table of bread means the word of God and the candlestick means the light of the Holy Spirit. The altar of incense means prayer.
Therefore, the saints are filled with the Word every day. We must live a life filled with the Holy Spirit and prayer. These three things are the strength that enables the saints to live their lives. Energy.
Without this, you cannot go to God. It is only through this that we can go to the throne of God.
If you look at the saints who live a life full of the Word, it is definitely different. There is power in everyday life. Because the Word guides life.
This is the testimony of some pastor. Suddenly, the front muscles twitch and the mouth turns. Stress and tiredness make this happen - even in the hospital waiting for you to come back - how frustrated and desperate are you? / Even the consolation of the saints is not really comforting.
Reading the Bible - I did cutie / One word made my whole body tremble
Psalm 42:11 “Why are you discouraged, my soul, and why are you troubled within me? Look to God, and I will rather praise my God, who helps my face.” - How powerful are these words? This is the ability. Testify that his face has returned since then.
The Word of God was written by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the Word of God is the Word of God speaking to us today. The life of the saints who meditate on and listen to the Word every day will be led by the Holy Spirit. You will receive the comfort of the Lord. It becomes strength, hope, and power. The same goes for prayer. It is common sense, but we cannot expect God's blessings without prayer. Without prayer, the image of the saints can only be “a pearl necklace hanging from the neck of a pig.”
A black farmer named John Young lived in Virginia, USA. The John Youngs were ignorant people who had never been educated in school. They had fourteen children. Once, a house fire broke out and the whole family was in danger of being victimized. In addition, all fourteen children contracted an infectious disease and were hospitalized.
The couple were ignorant, but their religious life was thorough. The couple prayed, "God protect me," whenever a crisis struck. The couple hung up a frame with the motto in their living room and taught their children to meditate on it every day. The motto was 'The root of this house is God'. In the end, all of John Young's children graduated from college without a single victim. Among their children, Cornell University's PhD in economics, teachers, nurses, and musicians were produced.
A family that looks to God never fails. Parents' prayers are the nourishment of happiness for their children. Everyone please pray.
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“Let’s be full of words. Let's be filled with the Holy Spirit. Let’s be full of prayer.”
saints
The grace that the Lord has bestowed upon us cannot be expressed in words and cannot be described.
We are living in the midst of that great grace. Saints, live a holy life
Thank you for the grace every day. Get close to the church. Give thanks for everything and let the blood of Jesus pour into your life.
Every day is full of words. I pray that you will live a blessed life while maintaining a close relationship with God by being filled with prayer and the Holy Spirit.
Praise through the blood)
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