Title: To show mercy to all.
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Sunday day sermon
Text: Romans 11:25-32
Title: To show mercy to all.
God grants grace to humans, and He does not grant that grace all at once, but only after making humans realize their sins deeply. If we do not do this to humans, because humans are so arrogant that they think that they are good enough, God must make humans deeply aware of their sins in any case, so that they can realize that they are 'I am not a human being'. Only after making them feel numb will they show mercy. Only then will those who have received God's grace never be able to boast of themselves, nor will they be able to betray God.
Looking at the process of Israel's birth, God could grant grace to all of them at once, but He did not do so. First, He sent the Law and the Prophets to live a life of faith under Him (sin). He did it so that he might find mercy. However, as we well know, they did not understand this deep will of God, and did not know that living under the law (sin) made them realize their sins, and they kept trying to become righteous on their own. It may have been the natural result of not accepting him when he came. What we need to understand deeply here is that no human being can understand God's will without understanding the deep will of God, which is a major stumbling block for humans. After all, in order to understand God's deep will, we can only understand it through the Son who came out of God's bosom.
Because they did not understand God's deep will, the people of Israel considered only the grace given to them primarily (the law is also the law of grace) as the best, and they rejected the real grace of God that was given afterwards, leading to destruction. . Not only that, but because of the wrong buttonhole, they have a hard time until the end, which is that they did not believe when they saw what Jesus had done for the second time. Even if they did not know the deep will of God at first, the second time the Son of God came and showed them the things of God, they should have believed and accepted it. There may be various excuses that humans had to do this because they did not understand God's will at first, but in the second place, they believed and accepted the things that the Son of God did before their eyes (signs, wonders, and words) in any case. that it should have been But how many do they believe? With the exception of the command, almost all of them rejected the last grace that God bestowed upon them.
Now, the same will apply to the Christians today who have become the spiritual Israelites today. The Christians of today, like the people of Israel, have given God primarily grace through the crucifixion and death of his Son Jesus, so that their original sins may be forgiven through His blood and they become the spiritual people of Israel. God sent the Holy Spirit as a gift to the believers as proof that original sins were forgiven through the blood of Jesus to the Gentiles. Gentiles who have received the Holy Spirit as a gift must become accustomed to a life of faith that examines themselves in order to receive the second grace as a gift. However, since Gentiles also cannot understand the deep will of God like the people of Israel, if they believe in Jesus and receive the Holy Spirit, they are saved. Because they live by the logic of this, they think that they can only be saved if they receive the Holy Spirit! Because these thoughts are so prevalent in their minds, they are focused on receiving the Holy Spirit no matter what they do, and they do not know anything about what to do next after receiving the Holy Spirit.
Of course, it may have been more difficult for them to have no one to tell them what to do next after they received the Holy Spirit, but it was also the reason God did so by sending a second son to show mercy to the Gentiles. it is grace Just as the Gentiles did not believe in Jesus as they did when He first came to the land of Israel, so obviously the Gentiles will not believe in the Son who comes spiritually. It is almost impossible for Gentiles to believe and receive the Spiritual Son sent by God for those who also live under the Holy Spirit (sin) and want to become righteous by it. How can those who saw the Son God sent directly to the land of Israel and did not believe in him, and how could they believe and accept the Son who came spiritually, invisible to the Gentiles?
Gentiles boast that they were born again by receiving the Holy Spirit, but strictly speaking, it is expressed as being born again because the spirit of the believer enjoys freedom compared to the spirit of the unbeliever (there is no such thing as dying and coming back to life because the spirit is permanent). Really, I have been born again This means that my inner self, my subject, my heart, has been reborn by the Spirit of Jesus. The subject of ?쏧??here refers to the self (inner person) who was born on earth. I was born on earth and died because of Adam's sin. Then, when he believed in the Son, he was brought back to life by the life-giving Spirit (the Spirit of Jesus). Now, in order to receive and enjoy the last grace given by the spiritual Son of God, we believers must realize what kind of situation they are in each and every word and finally pour out their own strength to receive the Lord's mercy again. If there is anyone who refuses even this, he must be someone who has already been determined to be abandoned.