Title: Unspeakable Glorious Joy (1 Peter 1:3-9)
Glorious joy indescribable (1 Peter 1:3-9)
Unspeakable glorious joy
1 Peter 1:3-9
There are many signs of our Christian sincerity, such as love and service, sacrifice and gentleness, holiness and purity, but one of the most prominent marks is joy. And that joy is not joy that is biased according to circumstances, but joy that rejoices all the time, joy that rejoices in the midst of hardships and trials. In the New Testament, the Greek word for ‘rejoice’ appears 72 times, and the Greek word for ‘joy’ appears 60 times. In a nutshell, this tells us that Christianity is a religion that brings joy to believers, and true Christians are people who rejoice. That's right. Christianity is the religion of joy, and Jesus is the giver of joy to us believers. Therefore, a good church, a church with the life of Christ, must be overflowing with joy. The early church was poorer than today's church and was in the midst of numerous tribulation and persecution. But they were churches of joy.
As we seek to know God more and to have a deeper relationship with God, we cannot call it the filling of the Holy Spirit, or the baptism of the Holy Spirit, to refer to that experience in which God Himself allows us to experience Him and fills us with His presence and glory. There is. True filling of the Holy Spirit means filling our hearts with God Himself. It is an experience in which God's love is poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, an experience that we have only heard about God with our ears but now see with our eyes, realizing the breadth, length, height, and depth of God's love. It is a spiritual experience of being filled with all the fullness of God. And when God's love is poured out on us and our hearts are filled with God's love, we experience such a glorious joy that cannot be compared with those of this world. I believe that we can become active saints who overcome the world by rejoicing and having fun in the midst of difficult realities, rather than those who are confused by reality and environment.