Title: Two Human Hearts!
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Sunday day sermon
Text: Romans 7:17-25
Title: Human Two Hearts!
Every human being has two hearts. This is because good and evil coexist in the human heart. When man was first created by God, he was created to be good. However, as soon as humans disobeyed God's word and ate of the tree of knowledge, evil took over them, and all humans were reduced to Satan's servants.
From that time on, all human beings have lived with two hearts. The Apostle Paul also confesses it. “I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want to do. If I do what I do not want, it is not I who do it, but sin that dwells in me! Therefore I have found a law, that evil is present with me, who desires to do good.”
Yes! All humans want to do good, but the power of evil is so strong that they live as the devil tells them to. He also said, “In my inner man I delight in the law of God, but in my members I see another law waging war against the law of my heart, bringing me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.” It expresses how two hearts are fighting fiercely.
When Paul was not born again as Christ, he also lived in religious zeal, but he confesses that he cannot control the evil that is happening in his heart every day through such an act. Then he spat out one word: “O wretched man I am, who will deliver me from this body of death?” He realistically expresses that the only person who can deliver him from the body of death is Christ.
If he had not met Christ, he, like other Pharisees, was still bound by the law and thought that if he went to the temple, slaughtered cattle and slaughtered sheep, and offered sacrifices to God, his sins would be forgiven and he would have eternal life. However, he was unaware of the common principle that the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away human sins.
The same is true of Christians today. If you go to the chapel and worship in the name of Jesus, all your sins will be forgiven, and everyone is mistaken for eternal life. As I say repeatedly, the name of Jesus is the name of the Savior given only to the people of Israel. If the Israelites who lived under the law believed in the name of Jesus, their sins would be forgiven and they would all receive eternal life.
To compare this to the people of Israel, the Israelites who escaped from Egypt (the world) crossed the Red Sea (physical salvation) through Moses (Jesus), passed through the Wilderness of Paran (test of faith), and then went to Mount Sinai (chapel). It is the same reason as Moses received the law (the law of the Holy Spirit) when he arrived there.
The Gentiles who did not know God believed in the name of Jesus who came to the land of Israel and received the Holy Spirit, just like the people of Israel who followed Moses from Egypt, crossed the Red Sea, passed through the Wilderness of Paran, and finally received the Law at Mount Sinai.
Just because they received the Law through Moses on Mount Sinai does not mean that the people of Israel had an eternal resting place. They must follow Joshua across the Jordan, pass through Jericho, and enter the land of Canaan to arrive at a land flowing with milk and honey. Even if you enter the land of Canaan, if you want to take possession of the land, you will have to fight to the death and defeat the Amorites before you can take possession of the land. As a model, it describes in detail the process of salvation that will be given to mankind in the future.
In the same vein, today's Christians are only the people of Israel who have only received the Law through Moses on Mount Sinai. Just as the people of Israel under the law went to the temple every Sabbath to offer sacrifices to God, Christians today, like the people of Israel, go to the chapel every week and offer all kinds of worship in the name of Jesus according to the law of the Holy Spirit.
However, just as Moses was a type of Jesus to come, the name of Jesus who came to the land of Israel is only a shadow to Christians today. Please do not misunderstand Christians by expressing Jesus as a shadow. The Holy Spirit, who has come through those who believe in the name of Jesus, demands religious practices according to the law of the Gentiles who believe. That is the proof that all worship in the church today is being offered in the name of Jesus.
As I said before, the name of Jesus is a shadow of the good things to come for Christians. This is the same as saying that Jesus will come before the Gentiles under a different name. Even Jesus says so in the Bible. “Awake, I will go with a thief!”
All Gentiles, including Christians who have received the Holy Spirit, can be freed from evil only by believing in the Son of God who comes in this way. Both those who live under the law of the Holy Spirit and those who are unbelievers are the same in living with a double heart. However, those who have received the Holy Spirit are slightly better than unbelievers. When they receive the filling of the Holy Spirit, they are not controlled by evil for a while, so they have joy and good thoughts come in. You are engulfed in all the worries of the world.
A person with greed cannot always live full of the Holy Spirit. If the Gentiles had been able to fight and overcome sin by being filled with the Holy Spirit, they would not have sent His Son before the Gentiles again. But because God already knew this, He sent His Son to make the Gentiles believe in His Son.
When the Son of God, that is, the Spirit of Christ, enters the hearts of believers, only then will humans cease to have two hearts and live with only one master. When the Spirit of Christ entered man's heart, it means that the Lord overcame evil and became the master of man. In other words, the spirits that died in the Garden of Eden who disobeyed the word and ate of the forbidden fruit were raised to life through Christ. This is the real human being who has been saved from sin.
According to the law of the Holy Spirit, no matter how much you go to the chapel and worship in the name of Jesus every day or every week, this is only a shadow of the good things to come. there is no way This is similar to the same reason that the people of Israel went to the temple every day to slaughter cattle and slaughter sheep to offer sacrifices, but their sins in their hearts would never go away.
The only way to solve this is that Jesus, who came to the land of Israel, will come before the Gentiles under a different name, and when the Gentiles believe and accept him, Christ will only enter the hearts of believers. In this way, human beings will not be ruled by evil, but will be governed by Christ and reach eternal rest. This is true salvation through Christ.
-He who has an ear, let him hear and understand-