Title: To Receive God's Love
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Sermon Day-070422 Disabled Sunday
Text - Proverbs 8:17
Title - To Receive God's Love
The gospel hymn, “You were born to be loved,” is loved by everyone.
Whether disabled or non-disabled, we are all born to receive God's love.
We are well aware of how much God loves human beings who are made in God's image and likeness.
God sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to this earth to save us, and He still loves us.
God, who protects us with the same love yesterday, today, and forever, said, “Beloved, I pray that all things go well with you and you may be in good health, as your soul prospers” (3 John 2).
God only wants to bless and reward us.
However, there are many people who do not receive the blessings they receive from God and live their lives without even enjoying the blessings they have received.
So, if we want to guide our entire life along with the blessings we have received from God, what are the basic things we need to have?
Example - A person who prayed a lot
There was a boy named William Kerry. He was a shoemaker.
William Kerry, who lived without dreams and hopes, believed in Jesus and changed his outlook on life and values.
Changed into a person with a dream.
He started his life anew day by day by putting a world map and a piece of paper with three slogans in front of his seat in a shoe repair shop.
- Have a big vision ( Great Vision )
- Pray a great prayer ( Great Pray )
- Great Expectation
You might think that the dream of a person who does repairs at someone else's shoe repair shop would be to open a repair shop, but William Kerry's dream was completely different.
He put a world map in his arms and volunteered to go on a mission when no one was thinking of going abroad on a mission at the time.
Everyone around me laughed at me.
There were no sponsors.
Even his wife was against it.
But nevertheless he ran to India.
1. Dreams and a passionate life
Above all else, we must be “people of dreams and zeal.”
Those who receive God’s blessing are “those who have dreams, visions, and zeal for the future.”
It cannot be achieved through expectations and hopes alone.
There is no new work or self-improvement for those who do not have a vision for the future and look only to the past.
God only blesses those who have dreams and zeal.
God is looking for people who have dreams and zeal to give them blessings.
So the Bible says, “Call to thee. I will answer you, and I will show you great and mighty things that you do not know” (Jeremiah 33:3).
The size of your dreams and visions is a vessel for God's blessings.
Therefore, in order to receive the blessings God gives you, you must have a dream and work hard to make that dream come true.
Yehwa - Let's tremble diligently
“He who is sluggish with his hands will become poor, and he who has diligent hands will become rich” (Proverbs 10:4).
Isn't the first thing foreigners say when they learn Korean is 'quickly, quickly'? That's why we live with diligence. There are times when I get sick from showing impatientness beyond diligence.
Jinkyung Kim: To accumulate treasures in heaven, you must diligently attend the praise ministry. The early bird catches the worm.
Jeon Young-ho: But early bugs tremble diligently and get eaten unfairly, don't they?
Jinkyung Kim: (Closing my eyes and thinking for a moment) Perhaps that bug wasn't a bug that came out early, but was the way to go home and stay out.
There seems to be no doubt that diligent people take good care of humorous material and take notes.
What is the Sunday school service time?
Teacher: Our children of God must be as diligent as ants.
Child: Like ants? The ants used to go out to play every day.
Teacher: Do the ants only go out to play?
Child: Yes. I saw it every time I went on a picnic. The ants always came first.
“O lazy man, how long will you lie down? When will you wake up from your sleep? Sleep a little longer, sleep a little more, put your hands together and lie down a little longer, and your poverty will come like a robber, and your poverty like a soldier” (Proverbs 6:9-11). )
The Bible clearly says this, but once laziness comes, you can't get rid of it. When a school asks you to submit a report with the title 'The consequences of laziness', it is mostly blank. Is there any other correct answer like that?
There is also a saying, “Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but the strength of the ox is much” (Proverbs 14:4). Why do I want oxen to disappear?
2. Diligent life
God hates the lazy.
The Bible testifies to this as follows:
“Lazy one! Go to the ant and see what it does, and be wise” (Proverbs 6:6).
When man, who is the lord of all things created in the image and likeness of God, “goes to the ant and sees what it is doing, and obtains wisdom,” it means that God wants such diligent people.
Many people use it to play diligently, to envy others, and to be jealous.
But the hand is the practice of love.
The meaning of the word ‘seeking me earnestly’ in the Bible is the same as ‘He who seeks me at dawn finds me’ in Hebrew.
Therefore, when we live diligently, we can truly receive God's love, our souls can truly prosper, we can be wealthy, and we can lead a blessed life of giving and lending.
We, who were born to receive God's love, first, in the name of the Lord, ask that we become saints who love God with all our heart, soul, strength, and will and love our neighbors (especially those with disabilities) as ourselves.