Title: Those who sin are of the devil...
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Sunday day sermon
Text: 1 John 3:1-12
Title: Those who sin are of the devil...
There will not be a single person in this world who lives without sinning. People who believe in Jesus and go to church cannot live without sinning, and just because they are Catholics who look holy cannot live without sin. And people who believe in the Buddha, who has a benevolent appearance, cannot commit sins and live with a pure heart. In our eyes, “even people who look like people who can live without laws” are corrupt in their hearts. That is why the Bible records that there is no “righteous” in this world, not even one.
But 1 John 3:8 says, “It is written that all who sin are of the devil.” According to the Bible, all people in this world, after all, belong to the devil. Those who are offended by these words and feel that they cannot easily agree with them should check themselves to see if they can live without sinning at least once in their lifetime.
Even if it is not the Bible, when we examine ourselves, we will realize that we are living with countless sins every day. The question is, how much guilt do you feel in your own conscience even though you commit so many sins every day? When a person commits a sin and has no remorse in his conscience, we say that such a person is a person whose conscience has been burned with fire. Of course, this is about unbelievers who do not know God.
However, those who believe in Jesus and receive the Holy Spirit and attend church should know that there is a God the Holy Spirit who illuminates us more accurately than our conscience when we sin. For example, a person's conscience feels the guilt felt differently when he steals 1 won and when he steals 100,000 won. According to the law of conscience, if you steal 1 won, you don't feel very guilty, but if you steal 1 million won, you feel that much guilt.
But in the sight of God the Holy Spirit, even if you steal 1 won, you are a sinner. Even the thought of stealing in your heart constitutes a sin. That is why God first gave His laws to those who believe. Unbelievers weigh their sins with the law of conscience, but believers can examine their sins much more closely than unbelievers because they can examine their sins with God the Holy Spirit. For this reason, those who have received the Holy Spirit will be able to run much faster before the Son whom God has sent than those who have received the Holy Spirit rather than unbelievers.
However, if you believe in Jesus and receive the Holy Spirit as if you were saved, you could be in greater danger than unbelievers. When a believer does not realize the evil hidden in his heart through the Holy Spirit, but rather believes that he has been saved by the Holy Spirit, it makes him arrogant and has a much higher chance of not believing in the Son of God whom God sends to the Gentiles in the name of Jesus. because it is higher The Pharisees who were righteous by the law at the time of Jesus are such people.
The reason God gave the law to the Jews first is also so that they can realize their sins through the law and go to the front of his son to vomit their sins and receive forgiveness of their sins. However, some Jews and Pharisees did not use the law to realize their sins, but rather, they were justified by keeping the law for some time. Even though they were not sinners, there was no need for them to believe again in the Son whom God had sent. It really can't be that stupid. If you do not know the law and believe it, you will face such an absurd case.
To the Gentiles who believe in Jesus today, God the Holy Spirit was sent first. Since all Gentiles are corrupt in heart, it means to be humble by examining and realizing the evil hidden in the hearts of corrupt Gentiles through God the Holy Spirit. Those who realize their sins through the Holy Spirit humble themselves and lead a life of faith. In the future, God will send the Son of God through Jesus Christ even before the Gentiles.
At that time, when all Christians go to the Son sent by God and pour out all their sins, the Son will blot out all their sins and bring them all to salvation. For this reason, God first sent the Holy Spirit to the Gentiles who believed in Jesus.
But Christians, like Jews, are trying to be justified by the law of the Holy Spirit. Just as Jews tried to be justified by the law, Christians today are trying to be justified by mistakenly thinking that they have been saved by receiving the Holy Spirit.
Because those who teach believe that they have been saved by the Holy Spirit, they are teaching even those who do not know anything. This is a very dangerous idea. If this happens, today's pastors are making the saints who don't know anything twice as much as children of hell. It can be really frustrating.
To the Jews, the Holy Spirit is poured out only on those who believe in Jesus, so it is perfect salvation, but the Holy Spirit poured out on the Gentiles is to examine and realize the sins in their corrupt hearts, and to humble themselves and lead a life of faith. If you mistake it as if you have been saved, you will fall into the irreversible trap of the devil. The devil is accomplishing his purpose by cleverly deceiving the hearts of those who say they have been saved.
In the feelings of being saved and feeling that you are a sinner, your thoughts change as much as in heaven and on earth. If the Pharisees at the time of Jesus had regarded themselves as sinners, would they have rejected Jesus so much? Also, if the tax collectors had believed that they were righteous, would they have come to Jesus and believed? In the same vein, if each church today teaches that receiving the Holy Spirit is saved, who will ever believe in the Son God has sent? Like the Pharisees, shouldn't all of God's sons be treated as heretics?
If Christians who believe in Jesus continue to regard the Holy Spirit sent to them to realize their sins as being saved, it is obvious that such people, like the Pharisees, will not believe in the Son of God whom God has sent in the future. The devil's technique is to hide in the people and work tricks every day in the church to prevent them from accepting them even when they realize their sins every day, but if they teach that they have received the Holy Spirit and are saved, then the devil cannot like this more.
So, how can the Gentiles reach full salvation in the future? Gentiles, even those who have believed in Jesus, or people of other religions, including non-believers, all who live on this earth must come forward and believe in the Son of God whom God sends to the Gentiles in the name of Jesus Christ. .
Also, if you admit that you are a human being with no choice but to live by sinning, you must also acknowledge that you belong to the devil. In doing so, the Son of God will have pity on such people and will grant forgiveness of their sins. This is the shortcut to true salvation.
At that time, the Jews believed that all of them would attain eternal life because only they believed in God. For that reason, they did not believe in the Son whom God had sent, so they fell from eternal life. On the contrary, the Gentiles who lived without knowing God came to Jesus, believed and entered into eternal life.
In addition, the Bible shows that the Pharisees who believed themselves to be righteous even though they were Jews did not believe in Jesus and were far from salvation, and the tax collectors and prostitutes who thought they were sinners instead believed in Jesus and entered eternal life first through the Bible.
This is a fact that Gentiles today should pay attention to. Otherwise, the Gentiles could also follow the same path as the Pharisees. Even today, those who believe that they have been saved by receiving the Holy Spirit will believe that they will reach eternal life. Then they will never believe in a son whom God will send in the future. If that happens, Christians too will not be able to receive forgiveness of sins because they do not believe in the Son God has sent, and eventually all of them will fall from eternal life.
However, even those who have lived as unbelievers, those who feel remorse and confess and admit their sins before the Son of God will receive forgiveness of sins and enter eternal life. Also, even those who are currently attending church, those who feel that they are sinners when they reflect on themselves before God the Holy Spirit come to the Son sent by the Father and confess their mistakes honestly, the Son will forgive all their ignorant sins and blot out will be. Gentiles should know that this is the autumn harvest, which separates wheat and chaff from the last Gentiles. -He who has an ear, let him hear and understand-