Title: We Are Useless Servants!
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Sunday day sermon
Text: Luke 17:5-10
Title: We are useless servants!
Even in this world, the relationship between master and servant is clearly separated. If this relationship is not right and the servant is doing what the master should do, and the master is doing what the servant should do, it can be said that water flows backwards. The reason is that the master is always in the position of giving, and the servant is always in the position of receiving. This is what we call hierarchical order. Even in the world in which humans live, if this hierarchy does not stand upright, the world will become extremely chaotic. That is one of the reasons why the world is becoming extremely chaotic these days.
God gave a food chain to all things in nature so that the big ones eat the smaller ones, so that the ecosystem can control the quantity on its own. Not only that, men were made to rule over women, and women were made to live with respect for their husbands. However, in order to indulge the lusts of the body, if there is anything that is good for the body, the animals and plants are not able to maintain the food chain relationship, so the ecosystem is losing its balance and is becoming more and more desolated. Not only that, but in the family, a man must fulfill his role as the head of the household so that the family can stand upright. Men lose economic power and lead the family because of the high-ranking women's era, and the hierarchical order of the family collapses. Even if the wrong phenomenon does not appear immediately after losing, the children who grow up under it will naturally grow up to be timid children. Such children, even when they become adults, are unable to exercise their rights, so they are reduced to despondent people. This is the era we are living in as we feel it with our skin.
When it is said that the promise made between man and God is broken, it is unlikely that the faithful God will break the promise. However, man always forgets his identity and has no choice but to break his promise to God. When you break a promise, you must pay the price for the sins that follow. Humans are most likely to break their promises because they are unaware of their situation. Even if he knew to some extent that he was a human being, he would not have acted arrogantly in front of his master. will be punished
In today's text alone, a certain servant returned from plowing his master's field all day, and the master saw him and said, "You have worked hard! Come up and eat!” The owner asked if he would do him any favors. A servant is a person who lives by the grace of his master anyway, so what does the master say to him because of what he has done? If a servant says that he will come and receive favor from his master, he is already forgetting his master's grace. If a person who is living by the grace of his master every day is expecting a reward from his master again because of what he has done, what kind of grace he enjoys 365 days a year is what he will repay his master with. This is the reality of the true master-slave relationship between God and man.
Despite the fact that such a great covenant relationship has been established between humans and God through the history of sprinkling blood, humans who remain in the status of servants do not realize this at all. will be. Even if humans were only aware of these facts, they would never be able to reveal their righteousness. However, since humans live their lives without realizing that fact, they are hoping for a reward (sacrificing, praise) that will follow after doing a little, and secretly hoping that they will recognize themselves after doing something. From the perspective of the owner, it is quite obvious that the servant will go to hell after death if he throws it away, and if he keeps it, he always expects a reward after doing something, so it is not usually frustrating from the owner's point of view.
The master tells the present servants about their status every day so that they can realize their situation because they are so unaware of their situation, but that is only when they hear the word, and when they turn back, when did that happen? He is self-righteous in everything he does, and he always expects a reward after doing a little special work, so I thought about whether to throw away all the current servants and replace them with other servants, but that also does not work. I think that even if other servants come, he also does not know his identity, so he has no choice but to take the servants he is with, but he who forgets his identity until the end and expects anything in return from his master, forgets the favor of his master. In the end, he will be separated into a man and hand over to Satan. Their only return is the final punishment.
Servants will have to try something that will please their master. For example, if a servant comes from a hard job, and the owner sees him struggling and asks, 'Are you having a hard time?', instead of immediately answering 'Yes', when you say, 'Master, I'm sorry you're having a hard time?' will be even more impressed. However, if there is a person who tries hard to show his hardships, or does not recognize his hardship, and if there is a person who attracts attention, he will immediately forget the grace of his master. Such a person is responsible for compensating for the favor of the master. The master's kindness can never be compensated for by this world. But now that he has forgotten such grace, how much more severe the punishment will be given to him. You can find mercy from your master only when you consider yourself a worthless servant.