Title: Two Teachers Raising God's Children
Contents
The providence that God has established to nurture His children is beyond measure. It is written, “Deeply is the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God; His judgments are beyond measure, and His ways are beyond finding” (Romans 11:33).
God has prepared two teachers to nurture the children of God who will dwell with Christ Jesus forever in the true tabernacle.
The first teacher is a preparatory teacher, so the Bible calls this teacher a schoolteacher, and the latter teacher is called a true teacher. Therefore, of the two teachers, only the latter is the true teacher. Regarding this, the Bible testifies, "...Do not be called rabbis, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers" (Matthew 23:8).
However, one cannot abide in the teachings of the true teacher without passing through the teachings of Master Monghak. As the True Teacher said, “...If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23). There must be the guidance of the schoolteacher, “Take up the cross”.
Denying oneself and taking up my cross every day is the study of a schoolteacher. This is what the Bible calls “elementary science”. It is as it is written, “In the same way, when we were young, we were also slaves under the elementary learnings of this world” (Galatians 4:3).
The need to deny oneself and the cross (tree) are all under a teacher. To hang on a cross means to hang on a tree. Therefore, hanging on the cross or on a tree is a schoolteacher, the curse of the law. It is written, “You shall not leave the corpse on a tree overnight, but bury it on the same day; you shall not defile the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance; for he who hangs on a tree is cursed by God” (Deuteronomy 21:23). Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangs on a tree” (Galatians 3:13).
Therefore, the learning of a tutor is called the old covenant, the law, and the learning of a true teacher is called the new covenant, grace and truth. Therefore, the school teacher is Moses, the servant who is loyal to the father's house, and the true teacher is Christ Jesus, the son who is loyal to the father's house.
Regarding this, the Bible testifies, "...the law became our tutor to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified through faith" (Galatians 3:24).
Monghak teacher teaches the curse of God, and the true teacher teaches the blessing of God. This is because if you do not know the curse, you cannot know what the blessing is. This is the same as if there is no darkness there is no light.
Because good things belong to those who know bad things. In order to let us know this truth, he first gave us a teacher who taught curses. Therefore, it is as it is written, “The law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (John 1:17). This is also the same as the saying of truth: “And there was evening and there was morning.”
So Moses is the teacher of the night and Christ is the teacher of the day. Those who do not learn the night well from the teacher of the night do not know what the teacher of the day is saying.
Therefore, those who have learned well from the teacher of the night can “deny themselves, take up their cross,” and obey and obey the teacher of the day. This path is the “Way of the Cross”.
But those who have not graduated from elementary studies and have entered the noblest science of knowing Christ cannot possibly follow his guidance. That's why the Bible recommends that we do it again. It is written, “... You must again have someone teach you what the basics of the word of God are, and you have become deprived of milk and solid food” (Hebrews 5:12). Thank you Lord.
After graduating from elementary studies and receiving a diploma, “By the law I died to the law, that I might live to God” (Galatians 2:19). And you must take up your cross daily toward the law, and have the traces of the curse, the blood of Jesus, on your body.
Therefore, the end of the law, the end of the curse, hangs on the tree. It is the same as it is written, “Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes” (Romans 10:4).
The end of the law was not accomplished by Moses, but by Christ. It is the same as it is written, “After receiving the sour wine, Jesus said, It is finished.” He bowed his head and died” (John 19:30).
Therefore, Moses, the curse of the cross, which was the end of the law, was fulfilled in Christ Jesus. In order to achieve this, we must belong to blood and blood and be born under the law. Therefore, he said, “It is worthy of being made like our brothers.” And “When the time was fulfilled, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the sonship” (Gal. 4:4-5) It is like Ham. Thank you. Praise you forever. Amen.
Therefore, unless we are united in imitation of his death, there is no seal of the Holy Spirit. Without the seal of the Holy Spirit, you are not a person of Christ. If you are not a person of Christ, you cannot imitate His resurrection and become united. The seal of the Holy Spirit is the blood of Christ.
But for the children of God who die from the curse of the law, "by the law to the law," and escape from the law and live "to God": "After faith came, we are no longer under a tutor" (Galatians 3: 25) As evidenced, we are not under the law, but under grace.
The Bible says, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:1-2). It is giving you the law.
But there are times when, while in Christ Jesus, we are again brought into captivity under the rudiments of Christ, the law of commandments pertaining to the flesh. This is because the old husband, who died to the law through the law, is not yet acquainted with the grace and truth of Christ, the new husband and one husband.
Therefore, he exhorts, “If we seek to be justified in Christ, and if we appear to be sinners, is Christ a sinner? It can never be. If I rebuild what I have broken down, I am making myself a transgressor” (Galatians 2:17-18). ), he says.
This is because they are not yet accustomed to denying themselves and taking up their cross, which is the solid food of the mature way of Christ. Regarding this, the Bible says, “For everyone who drinks milk is a child and has never experienced the word of righteousness” (Hebrews 5:13). Like a calf unaccustomed to the yoke...
But, “You are of God, and you are in Christ Jesus, who came from God to us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, so that as it is written, He who boasts, boast in the Lord” 1:30-31), our righteousness does not consist in the works of the law, but in Christ Jesus, Jesus, who came from God, is to us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
Therefore, we say before all things, "...I have nothing to boast about except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world" (Galatians 6:14). I testify.
Therefore, the weaned child, as it is written, “Surely I have calmed and calmed my spirit, like a weaned child in its mother's bosom, and my heart is like a weaned child” (Psalm 131:2). You must have the heart of Christ Jesus.
Today the Lord said, “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day. comes” (John 6:44-45) and again, “All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will in no way cast out” (John 6:37). Thank you Lord.
little brother kim yoon-goo