Title: What Do We Live For?
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Sunday day sermon
Text: Philippians 2:1-11
Title: What do we live for?
Each person will have a purpose in living in this world. Some people will work hard to earn a lot of money and live a more comfortable life in this world, while others will work hard to earn great wealth and fame by studying a lot. However, whether we live this way or that way, the purpose of human beings is ultimately focused on one purpose: to achieve great success in this world and to live a life of wealth.
The purpose of maggots that feed on human excrement is not much different from that of humans. The best way for them to live their lives is to see who eats more human excrement, grows faster, turns into a dung fly, and breeds their own species on human excrement again. However, among them, there will be many maggots that end their lives in the middle of being eaten by birds or being trampled on by people before they even turn into dung flies.
Comparing this human life with that of maggots that feed on human excrement, there is nothing that human life is better than that of maggots. It means that people, maggots, and squirrels live a life that goes round and round anyway, and eventually everyone ends up in one place.
However, there is one thing that maggots are actually better than humans. Since maggots have no soul, they die when they are trampled on by people's feet. However, since human beings have souls, even after death, they must bear all the sins committed while they were in the flesh. Hell is the place to bear this. All beasts and insects except humans do not have souls, so when they die, that is the end. However, since the human spirit is permanent, it does not die and must be resurrected as a sinful body to bear the price for our sins.
This is why we must believe in the Son sent by God. Human sin is a problem that only God can solve. But God cannot reveal Himself to men. The moment God reveals Himself to mankind, all humans must die on the spot because of their sins. Because of this fact, God sent His Son to take away the sins of man. Paul said, "He was in the form of God, but did not take equality with God..."
The first son is Jesus, who came to the land of Israel as a type of Isaac. Before Jesus came, the Jews went to the temple in Jerusalem according to the law to slaughter cattle and slaughter sheep before God every day to offer supreme sacrifice (worship). However, the Jews at that time were unaware of the fact that human sins are never forgiven through such religious practices. So they did not want to believe in the Son sent by God and believed that if they continued to go to the temple and offer sacrifices, their sins would be forgiven and they would enter eternal life.
This is true of Christians today as well. Christians point their finger at this behavior of the Jews, saying they are truly foolish. At the same time, because they believed in Jesus, they are all puffed up as if they will have eternal life. However, Christians, like the Jews at the time, must also realize that they are all still under the law of the Holy Spirit. Without realizing it, Christians will be just as foolish as the Jews.
The name Jesus, whom God sent as a type of Isaac, was the name sent before the Israelites to bear the sins of the people of Israel who were living under the law at that time. Jesus, who was sent by the Father and came to the land of Israel, solved two major problems according to the Father's will. First, he solved the sin of self-crime (sin against the law) to those who believed in him. Second, he solved the original sin that Adam had committed in the Garden of Eden by shed blood on the cross.
Gentiles who did not know God and lived like dogs and pigs were able to call on the name of Jesus and receive the Holy Spirit because Jesus shed His blood when He died on the cross. However, just because Gentiles received the Holy Spirit does not mean that their salvation was completed. In order for the Gentiles to enter full salvation, they must believe in the Son God has sent before the Gentiles. However, if you are a Gentile who received the Holy Spirit before the Son came, there are things you must do first. It is a duty to live according to the Spirit.
If the people who have received the Holy Spirit cannot fully follow the Holy Spirit, they will have to stand before God's terrible judgment seat in the end. This is just like the Jews who lived under the law, who stood before the terrible judgment seat of God when they broke the law. Self-crime refers to this. If a person living under God's law breaks the law, he or she will be judged by God in the end. But the unbeliever is not judged by God's law, but conscience and the law judges himself.
This is why God sent His Son before the Israelites and the Gentiles, respectively. For the Jews who lived under the law, he sent Jesus as the Savior as a type of Isaac, so that those who believed in the Son and came out could be saved. And to the Christians who are currently living under the law of the Holy Spirit, God is going to send His Son as a type of Jacob. Only when Christians believe in the Son of God who comes in this way can they be freed from all sins (self-crime) as well as the sins of living according to their own will and against the Holy Spirit.
However, if Christians do not realize this and continue to go to the chapel like Jews and offer sacrifices (worship) to God in the name of Jesus, they are mistakenly thinking that all their sins will be blotted out and they will be saved. Today, the act of Christians going out to worship in the chapel is the same as the act of Jews going to the Jerusalem Temple and slaughtering cattle and slaughtering sheep before God. Until the Son of God comes, such actions are appropriate, but after the Son comes, such actions are not what God wants.
And because salvation is only forgiven when we believe in the Son sent by God, Jews must believe in the Son of God who came as a type of Isaac, and Christians must believe in the Son of God who is sent as a type of Jacob to receive forgiveness of their sins Only then will we come to full salvation. Therefore, the act of Christians going to the chapel to worship at present is only a model of the son who is to come, so it will be operated only temporarily until the son comes. there will be no
When we are asked, ?쏻hat do we live for in this world??? if we live to earn a lot of money in this world, to be respected by others, or to gain honor, then such a human being will eat human excrement. A person who lives a life that is no different from living maggots.
At least for a human being with a soul, he must live to meet the Son sent by God. Only then can we be freed from sin and live like a human. No one on earth can ever be free from sin except through a son sent by God.
Even if you are a Christian who has been attending church for several decades, your sins are never blotted out by religious acts. Buddhists who trembled at the thought that even killing a bug is killing, Catholic priests and nuns who live their lives without marriage in order to live a flawless life, and Muslims who do not even eat dirty and unclean food, such an act would never be acceptable. You cannot be free from the sins you have committed. Man's freedom from sin is possible only by believing in the Son sent by God. - He who has ears, let him hear and understand_