Title: What Are You Caught by?
Contents
Everyone lives by being caught up in something.
Depending on it, a life of success and a life of failure are determined.
Through the three types of people appearing in the text, what they are obsessed with,
And we hope that this will be a blessed time when we realize what we should be obsessed with.
The first demon-possessed slave girl appears.
What can be known from the word “maidservant” is that this person had the resentment and resentment of living as a slave in someone else’s house.
But how pitiful it is to live there, plagued by demons.
There are many people around us who live under the control of the devil.
The second person is a person who is caught up in matter.
If the slave girl was possessed by a demon, the slave girl's owner used the demon-possessed slave girl to make money
A person caught up in the substance that filled his stomach.
How grateful it would be to be freed after being possessed by a demon.
However, the master of the slave girl was different. Why? The maid was so good at divination that people came to see the divination.
After earning money from divination, when he can no longer make money, he beats Paul hard and puts him in prison.
This is the image of a person who is obsessed with material things.
As people become obsessed with money, people don't look like people.
I don't even care about other people's personalities.
What should we cling to?
Like Paul, we must live by the Holy Spirit,
We must live by the vision and mission that the Lord gives us.
Paul lived under the power of the Holy Spirit. Paul wanted to evangelize other places with the gospel, but God wanted to testify the gospel to Europe, so he came to Philippi, the first gateway to Europe, following the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
After starting to believe in Jesus, Paul was sensitive to the Holy Spirit. He lived under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. If there is only one way we can avoid being possessed by demons or material possessions, it is by being possessed by the Holy Spirit. Day by day, moment by moment, we must live under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and seek His power and wisdom.
Paul was a man who not only lived by the Holy Spirit, but was also captivated by the vision and mission God had given him. What is Paul's vision? It is to turn the Gentiles into believing in Jesus. Paul knew that persecution would come to him if he healed the maidservant of divination. Still, he healed the maidservant, and later, when the prison door was opened and the lockers were released, he did not run away and preached to the jailer.
What is your vision? I hope that saving people becomes your vision. I hope that the history of saving people will occur in the field of your life.
We hope that all members of Hongcheon Holiness Church will live by the Holy Spirit alone. I hope that you will be caught up in the vision and mission He has given you. So, I pray in the name of the Lord that you will become blessed workers who will be used preciously for the sake of the Lord, the Church, the body of the Lord, and the souls around you while you live on this earth.