Title: Treat others too (Matthew 7:12)
Content: Treat others too.
Matthew 7:12
This verse in today's text is the culmination of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount and is called the [Golden Rule].
First, in verse 11, Jesus said, “If you, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him” Treat others as you would like to receive them, for this is the Law and the Prophets” (verse 12). Therefore, the words of verse 12 can be said to be the answer and conclusion to the words of verse 11.
Jesus said [what we ask for], but what will you ask for? What each person asks for before God will be different, but in summary, it can be summed up in two ways. One of them, grant us all blessings. And the other is, please give me happiness--May I live a happy life.
In this way, Jesus said, “Whatever you would like others to do to you, treat others as you would like to receive all blessings and to live a happy life.” If we treat each other, we will receive all blessings and lead a happy life.
In Genesis 12:1-3, God said to Abraham, "Leave your land, your relatives, and your father's house, and go to the land I will show you." and you will become a source of blessing]. Then he said, "I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse, and all peoples on the earth will be blessed in you." In other words, he told me that Abraham had a mission to become a source of blessing and bring blessings to all people.
This is not only promised to Abraham, but also to all the saints who live by faith like Abraham. Therefore, I know that you and I should have the same faith as Abraham and receive the same blessings as Abraham.
However, although we should receive all blessings, we must also enjoy them. This is a greater blessing. However, there are some people who have been blessed but cannot enjoy it and die.
According to Ecclesiastes 6:1-6, “I saw one evil under the sun, which is heavy for a man, and there is a man who lacks all the desires of his soul and has received from God wealth, wealth, and honor, but is not able to enjoy it. and others enjoy it, and this is also vanity and an evil disease] (6:1-2) [Even if he lives twice as much as a thousand years, if he does not enjoy the pleasures, does not he end up returning to one place?] (6:6). .
Therefore, while it is important for us to receive blessings, we come to realize how important it is to live while enjoying them.
So what does it mean to be blessed here? It means a happy life. No matter how much money and wealth you have, people who just accumulate them will always have anxiety and fear, but a happy life will not come true. This person only serves as a storekeeper for the rest of his life, and when he dies, others will enjoy it.
Happiness comes from giving and receiving. Therefore, if we want to receive all the blessings and live a happy life, we must work hard to share and treat them. For example, it is natural for each person to find their own rice bowl and eat it. But there is no happiness here. Although it is one's own bowl of rice, if we share it with each other and serve each other, we will eventually find our share and eat it, and therefore there will be happiness.
In John 13:12-17, when Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, he said to you that I have set an example for you, so you too should be washers of each other's feet. It goes without saying that each one washes his own feet. But when we wash each other's feet, happiness follows. Therefore, if we want to live a happy and enjoyable life, there must be something to give and receive.
Love is giving and giving. It is to be entertained. Therefore, in Matthew 7:12, it says, [In whatever way you would like others to do to you, do also to them, for this is the law and the prophets], and also in Matthew 22:37-40, [with all your heart and with all your soul, give your life “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your mind.” This is the first and greatest commandment, and the second is like it. “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” These two commandments are all the law and the prophets. .
After all, the words to love and to treat others mean the same thing. There is happiness when we love each other and treat each other like this. A person who only loves to receive and does not know how to give is like the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea only receives water and does not know how to give it out. So this sea has been stagnant for thousands of years and is so salty that there is no life. It is truly a dead sea.
In this way, those who do not know how to give or treat others will die of faith and character. Therefore, we are living a dead life without happiness and meaningless life.
Do you want to be loved? I hope you love it. Do you want to be treated? Please welcome. do you want to receive First, please. When giving and receiving like this goes round and round, there is happiness and joy.
According to 2 Timothy 3:1-5, “Know this that the times of distress will come in the last days, when people will love themselves, love money, be proud, proud, slanderers, disobedient to their parents, unthankful, unholy, callous, and bitter. unrestrained, accusing, unrestrained, ferocious, not fond of what is good, treacherous, selling, hasty, sleeping, loving pleasures more than loving God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power of godliness. Turn away from such people. said These words show how much human beings will fall in the last days.
The fall of man is directly proportional to the loss of love. As the love grows in people's hearts, the world becomes a better world to live in, and therefore a happier life. On the other hand, when love grows cold and everyone becomes selfish, the world becomes that much worse, and therefore a miserable and miserable world to live in.
When people lose love, they hate to give. On the contrary, they all become thieves and robbers. Here is the tragedy, and here is the realization of Hell. When there is love in a person's heart, they naturally want to give and treat. Then you will be happy and you will be happy. So you will be happy.
However, when love grows cold in a person's heart, the heart to give or treat does not arise. Therefore, there is no joy in the heart and no joy in life. Therefore, it is unfortunate.
Not only that, but the extreme depravity of the human heart completely dries up love and instead fills it with hatred, and terrible things happen every day. Take a look at the recent murder group Jijon faction. There was only hatred in the hearts of these children. Their motto is [curse the rich]. They killed people, cut them into pieces, even ate their bodies, and burned them to destroy them. These are, in their own words, [those who refuse to be human].
Watching this incident, I remembered the prayer of the Lord's Prayer [only deliver us from evil]. Evil humans are worse than evil beasts in the world. We see how fallen and how evil we humans have become in the appearance of these young people. We humans, who are completely corrupt, have no way to be saved on our own.
Therefore, Jesus came into this world to save us humans and died on the cross to atone for all our sins so that anyone can be saved by faith. Therefore, according to Romans 5:6-8, “While we were still weak, Christ died for the ungodly, as promised. God demonstrates his love for us in that Christ died for us.
The fountain of love springs up because Jesus came to this world, where love has dried up due to the total fall of mankind, and gave His precious life for us so that we may be saved. Therefore, 1 John 4:10-11 says, “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that God loved us and sent his Son as the propitiation for our sins.”
Luke 6:38 says, “Give, and it will be given to you; and it will be given to you, pressed down, shaken, and overflowing.” Proverbs 11:25 says, “He who loves alms will have plenty, and he will nourish others.” Those who do it will be refreshed], and Proverbs 19:17 says, “To have compassion on the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay them for their good deeds.”
Also, Matthew 10:42 says, “And whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, that person will by no means lose his reward.”
Although we should live with hospitality to all people, we especially want you to treat your servants. Because this is a participation in the work of saving souls.
Mark 10:29-30 says, “Truly, I say to you, he who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for me and for the sake of the gospel, is not in an instant, but houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children, There is no one who will not receive a hundredfold of land, but with persecution, and who will not receive eternal life in the age to come.
Dear saints, Do you want to receive and enjoy all the blessings? Please treat others first. If you do, you will surely be welcomed. Not only that, you will receive all the blessings that God has promised, and you will also enjoy those blessings.