Title: Those Who Receive the Joy of God
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God has given the world faith.
The faith God has given to the world has great power and power,
Faith is the driving force that makes people realize their dreams.
Human beliefs are limited by reason, but there is nothing impossible in the faith God has given to the world.
In faith, the promises of God are guaranteed, so not only does the impossible become possible in human life, but it also has great powers to make the things that are not there, make the little things a lot, and to raise the dead.
▣ Jesus, who came into the world as the Son of God, urges people to have this faith, but there are some people in the world who are pleased with God because they have the faith God has given to the world, but they do not possess the faith that God has given them with their own reason and conviction. There are people who can't live without God's wrath.
▣ The God who gave faith to the world is Almighty and helps us.
Psalm 121:4- “God neither sleeps nor sleeps to help us and to keep us, but there are many who refuse God’s help and live in sin”
What God considers a sin is to reject God's help with one's knowledge and life experience.
Considering your own beliefs and life experiences as important, rejecting the faith God has given you is no different from eating the forbidden fruit outside of Eden.
▣ How do we depend on and obey God?
As an act of faith that God has given to the world, it is possible to please God and receive a reward.
God wants to help the world through His Son, but not asking for help is pride, and not accepting the Son is also an act of not loving one's own soul and is walking the path of destruction.
Even now, those who want to harm humans in the world do not stop planning and proceeding with their work.
The devil, who tries to harm people, has various causes of unhappiness, and even at night when people are sleeping, while God's children are worshiping and praying, we are doing what they have set up, so we can receive God's love and enjoy God's pleasure. You can be free from the devil only by living your own life.
▣ Jacob prayed all night to prevent bankruptcy in his life, so he received God's love and escaped a crisis. Peter paid wages to the workers because he obeyed the Lord's word, and David trusted the word. Because of this, the country was saved from a moment of crisis.
There are so many people living in this world, but those who are loved by God and
The difference between those who do not receive God's love is truly enormous.
Dear saints,
If you want to overcome the crisis in your life and prevent bankruptcy in your life, like Jacob and Peter, I hope you have the mighty faith that God has given to the world while obeying God's word.
God is looking for those in the world who will please Him among His loved ones.
Ephesians 5:10 - “Test what pleases the Lord.” did,
Romans 8:8 - “Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.” He says.
When a person cherishes someone, he dedicates himself to sacrificing himself in order to please him.
Love is devoted to making sacrifices for others, not seeking self-interest.
God showed His love for mankind through His very Son and put it into practice.
After God showed the world His greatest love through His Son,
You are looking for those who will have the joy that God gives you by pleasing you through the name of the Son.
Faith that God has given to the world is a gift that makes man pleasing to God.
Jesus said that if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will please God.
▣ The faith God has given to the world is
In fact, we know from the Bible that it is not easy to lay down our experience and knowledge of the world and accept God as the master in our hearts. Those who seek righteousness will surely be blessed.
In today's text too, Jesus says that he pours out the joy of God to the fullest on those who love God with the faith God has given and who abides in faith. Who will receive the joy of God?
1. One who bears much fruit.
Verse 8 - “My Father is glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and ye shall be my disciples.” We must have the desire to bear many fruits of faith that the Lord is pleased with, in the footsteps of our one-time faith, at least once.
▣ It's okay to be greedy for good things to accomplish God's righteousness.
The more we give up our greed for bad things, the better, and the more we avoid bad things, the better.
But the closer you are to good things, the better, and the more you are greedy for good things, the better.
A person's faith grows only when there is good competition in the believer's faith.
If you see someone living a better life of faith and bearing good fruit than you, you should not be jealous and envious when you see that you are blessed and live a peaceful life.
It means that I must also have the passion of faith to receive the blessings that this person has received.
Just as living fish do not hesitate to go upstream to drink better water, the living children of God must also bear better fruits in life, in the name of Jesus.
▣ I went to church with the Bible for a long time, but the absence of the fruits of God's blessings in my life is what makes Almighty God incapable of us.
Chapter 15 tells the parable of the vine, saying that the branch attached to the vine must bear fruit to please God, the farmer who takes care of the tree.
If a farmer sweats and grows a vine, but the branches on the tree do not bear fruit, the farmer who cultivates the branches is disappointed that he does not hesitate to cut down the branches.
▣ We are the branches that live on the most perfect and healthy vine called Jesus in the world.
The joy of the farmer is none other than the harvest of many fruits from the vines he has grown.
The joy of God is that we who live close to Jesus bear many good fruits, both spiritually and physically.
Remembering that God, the farmer, not only removed all pests and pests from our lives through His Son, but also made our hearts, like barren land, fertile ground, bears the fruit of good faith in the Lord, so that we can receive the joy of God fully and win spiritually and physically. I hope you will.
2. God gives joy to those who keep the commandment of love.
} 15. In verse 16, verse 26, “When the joy of God comes, we can not be called servants but friends of the Lord. You say you will protect me.
Romans 13:10 says, “It is the fulfillment of the law that we keep the commandment of love.”
Because God loves our lives, He sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to this earth.
In this age, as the love between neighbors, rich people, brothers, husband and wife, and saints grows colder, he builds a huge Tower of Babel just for himself.
In these times, the most important thing is to keep the commandment of love, remembering that when we practice love, God's joy comes into our lives.
▣ Paul told the Philippian church members to keep the commandment of love.
Philippians 2:1 says,
Be of the same heart, have the same love, be of one accord, be of one mind, do nothing through strife or vanity, but with lowliness of mind, each considers others better than himself, each taking care of his own affairs and the affairs of others, to the joy of God It is said to have a humble heart, the heart of Jesus.
3. The joy of God comes to those who take refuge in the Lord.
In order for us to live fully with the various joys that God gives us, we must always live by God's side.
▣ Just as little Samuel listened to God's voice while sleeping by the ark in the temple, those who always turn their purpose in life to God will be protected by God.
▣ When a tree planted by a river is in severe drought, its branches point toward the water, and just as a sunflower chases the sunlight and turns its face all day long, so the joy that God gives to those who turn all their lives to God and give their purpose of life to God. that there is this.
Those who live according to their will and value their life experiences more than God, not only do not feel the true joy that the Lord gives them, but also do not receive the peace that God gives them.
Even a person like Paul, in order to completely avoid the Lord, threw away his past way of life like excrement and received the Lord's insistence, and even a deacon like Stephen, when he puts the highest value on knowing God, add or subtract to raise the Lord from the throne in the field of martyrdom is going to be
In Numbers 35:11, God tells the Israelites that when they cross the Jordan and enter the land of Canaan, they must choose a city of refuge, and those who sin unintentionally must enter the city of refuge to live.
▣ In the city of refuge, just as a person who knows his sin enters to live and obtains God's grace,
The joy that God gives is also a gift of grace when you lay down your life to God.
To become the Lord's friend, to be chosen, and to be led by the Holy Spirit, we must obtain the joy of God.
We all bear the good fruit of our faith, practice the commandment of love, to obtain the joy of God,
Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, I pray that you will practice your life for the glory of the Lord.