Title: Those Entrusted with the Secrets of God
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Bible: Romans 3:1-2
Title: Those Entrusted with the Secrets of God
On the last 8/30, a contest was held to select the 13th concubine of King Mwadi (36) in a small country called Swaziland located in southeastern Africa. This competition is one of the country's biggest events held annually. More than 20,000 candidates participated in the contest to receive a house as a concubine, and the participants ranged in age from a very young 5 year old to 19 years old.
Participants were interviewed.
1) A 15-year-old child named Simelane lives in a house where it rains during the rainy season because her father died of AIDS and her family is poor. I want to live in the royal palace.
2) In an interview with a 13-year-old boy named Delami, I want to try a Mercedes-Benz car.
Swaziland is a small country with a population of only about 1 million. It is said that one-third of the total population is AIDS, and the whole nation is starving because there is nothing to eat.
Everyone! Just think for a moment. Under these circumstances, if you get a favor as a concubine of the king of that country, you will change the number of sellers overnight. That's why it is said that tens of thousands of people flock to the event every year to be chosen as concubines and to be chosen as concubines.
Everyone! What is our social status now? We believers are those who have already been transformed into an identity that cannot be expressed in words. We are no longer what we used to be.
1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the goodness of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
-Galatians 4:7 Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a “son,” and if you
heir through it.
-Romans 6:17-18 I will give thanks to God! You were originally slaves of sin... You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
What is the healing of the Jews in today's text? is asked. (One)
What made Jews better than Gentiles?
Seen here, their qualitative excellence is not mentioned.
It's just saying that something was picked up from outside, from God.
That is, they received “the word of God.”(2)
In Psalm 147:19-20, he reveals his words to Jacob, and his statutes and ordinances to Israel. Hallelujah!
However, in the original language, the word of God is not just a word, but an oracled “Word”.
That is, it is the entrusted “word”.
So, this is a word that should not be limited to simply possessing.
To explain a little more, it is saying that the person who receives the Word must become a “manager” of the Word and a “communicator” of the Word.
In the early days, the Jews were the only people who inherited the “word of God” on behalf of all nations. How glorious is this?
Among the many peoples on this earth, where else is there a higher position than this?
-Deuteronomy 33:3-4 The LORD loves his people, and all the saints are in his hand,
I am not under the word of the Lord.
Moses commanded us the law, the inheritance of the assembly of Jacob.
Everyone! How is it? It is truly beautiful. It's really happy. It looks really honorable. It is truly a blessed nation.
But what happened to Israel in the end?
-Romans 11:20-21 Yes, they were broken because they did not believe, but you stand by faith.
Do not have a high heart, but be afraid!
If God did not spare the cost, neither will He spare you!
Everyone, what did God say to us in today's text?
These words were entrusted to them, that is, “the words of the oracle.”
Therefore, we have a responsibility to fulfill our mission.
In other words, the gospel about God's love for the world so much that he sent his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to this earth for the salvation of mankind, the crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, and his ascension and second coming. will have to convey
- 1 Corinthians 4:1-2 Let men ought to consider us servants of Christ and entrusters of the mystery of God. And what those who are entrusted with ask for is “faithfulness.”
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